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For their 2009-10 season, the company's expanded lineup has works ranging from "Hamlet" and "Othello" to "Shirley Valentine," Golda's Balcony," and more.

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Yours Ever, Sam
'The Letters of Samuel Beckett'
Reviewed by DWIGHT GARNER

Samuel Beckett, that most taciturn and private of 20th-century writers, turns out to have been one of the century's great correspondents.

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THEIR JOINT VENTURE IS A CAPITAL IDEA By FRANK SCHECK

HUSBAND-and-wife team Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano have been called the "Nick and Nora" of cabaret, but I think the better comparison is to Fred and Ginger. Like that immortal pairing, she brings him sex, h…

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THE TWO OF CLUBS By Barbara & Scott Siegel

Michel Legrand pulls our string(s) at Birdland while Comstock and Fasano charm at The Metropolitan Room.

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GUYS AND DOLLS - Reviled or Revered B'way Revival? by OSCAR E MOORE

The delightful surprise is Lauren Graham - of "Gilmore Girls". Who would have ever imagined that she would make such a memorable Adelaide - the long suffering fiancée, engaged to Nathan Detroit for fourt…

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The Black Jew Dialogues - Reviewed by MARK PEIKERT

Fans of sophomoric humor will have a blast at "The Black Jew Dialogues," but anyone looking for a witty, subversive take on race in America will be disappointed.

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Blood Type: Ragu

Blood Type: Ragu feels as hastily assembled as half-cooked spaghetti dressed with partially frozen tomato sauce.

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Blood Type: RAGU
Reviewed by: Andy Propst

Frank Ingrasciotta's solo show about growing up Sicilian is very well performed but tonally unbalanced.

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Blood Type: Ragu - Reviewed by ROBERT WINDELER

In Frank Ingrasciotta's one-man show at the newly refurbished Actors' Playhouse, the actor-author embodies multiple characters from his life as the son of Sicilian immigrants to Brooklyn, and technically he doe…

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Modest memoir simmers on stage in 'Blood Type: Ragu' by Joe Dziemianowicz (**)

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Dull Guys and Hot Dolls on Broadway By TERRY TEACHOUT

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Cynthia Nixon Unravels as Stressed Mom of Wild Boy: John Simon

"Distracted" may not be great dramaturgy, but it does provide two hours of highly animated distraction.

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VIDEO FEATURES : Beyond Broadway: Distracted

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PHOTO CALL: Cynthia Nixon Opens in Distracted Off-Broadway

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Another Week Added to Loomer's Off-Broadway Distracted, Starring Nixon

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Distracted, with Cynthia Nixon, Announces Second Extension

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Distracted, Starring Cynthia Nixon, Extends Through May 17

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Tenants of a Vanishing World By JULIE SCELFO

An apartment at the Apthorp is a lone outpost of the kind of bohemian family life that renters could once have there.

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Palminteri takes audience to mean streets with his 'Bronx Tale' BY MARY HOULIHAN

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VIDEO FEATURES : On the Scene: Fonda & Kaufman Talk 33 Variations

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PHOTO OP : An Inside Look as Hair's Tribe Lets Loose in Rehearsal

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FRESH FACE : Josh Stamberg

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Michael Shulman Finds a Way By: Leslie (Hoban) Blake

After starring in Off-Broadway's White People, the young actor-producer hits the road in the new film Sherman's Way.

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'Hijabi Monologues': the women under the head scarves By Raja Abdulrahim

The play examines a simple piece of clothing and the complex reactions to it in the U.S.

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DIVA TALK: Catching Up with Rooms' Leslie Kritzer Plus Sutton Foster's "Wish"

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Peter Filichia's Diary: Wilder! Cromer! Wilder!

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The Daily Mirror Blog: Voices -- Horton Foote, 1916 - 2009

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An Appraisal
A Dramatist Who Cozied Up to the Chill Within the Hearth By BEN BRANTLEY

Horton Foote's plays have always felt like home to me. You don't have to have grown up Southern, as I did, to respond this way to the soft-spoken tales of small-town Texas.

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