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"I Dreamed a Dream," the album by Susan Boyle, the Scottish singing phenomenon, won't be released until Nov. 24, but it has already hit No. 1 on Amazon's Best Sellers in Music list.

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"Glee," with Broadway's Morrison and Michele, Premieres on Fox Sept. 9

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Will 'Glee' still sing after spring tease? By VERNE GAY

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'Glee' pulls off tricky balancing act by Maureen Ryan (***)

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At musical school, sex is the keynote by David Hinckley (****)

The new musical-comedy drama "Glee" dresses like "High School Musical" and has the heart of "Porky's." That's a compliment.

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Review: 'Glee' on Fox By ROBERT LLOYD

The high school comedy, one of the fall's best new shows, celebrates music, ambition and the misfit.

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'Glee': A few sour notes don't spoil the usual harmony By Robert Bianco (*** 1/2)

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"Glee Club" TV series creator uses Mt. Prospect high school for inspiration By Colleen Mastony

TV series' creator Ian Brennan used his Prospect High days to inform the show's characters, ideas

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Chris Colfer's journey from small town to "Glee" by Maria Elena Fernandez

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An Interview With Lea Michele, One of the Leads in Fox's 'Glee' by Ruth McCann

I want to be in "Funny Girl." And I want ["Glee" creator] Ryan Murphy to direct it.

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Glee's Lea Michele on the Show, the Cast, and Her Lucky Car Accident

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Fringe fantasy offers cuteness that's not for kids By Howard Shapiro

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At the English National Opera, a Season for Theater Directors By MATT WOLF

The English National Opera next week begins a 2009-10 season rife with theater names at the helm, as if to reflect an increasing fluidity between the worlds of theater and opera.

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The Night Is a Child
Reviewy by Bob Verini

"The Night Is a Child" doesn't take us anywhere else new or surprising.

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The Night is a Child

This third play by Charles Randolph-Wright to be produced at the Pasadena Playhouse is in many ways a lovely work with much to recommend it

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To Love and to Cherish - Reviewed by MARK PEIKERT

This labored dysfunctional-family melodrama tries to be both shocking and funny but succeeds only in the mildest way at the latter.

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Race Music
Reviewedby:David Finkle

Warren Bodow's well-meaning if flawed play about an African-American deejay experiencing discrimination benefits from strong ensemble performances.

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A Pakistani-American Family Is Caught in Some Cultural Cross-Fire By LAURIE GOODSTEIN

"The Domestic Crusaders," Wajahat Ali's envelope-pushing play, is about immigrant Muslims living in the American suburbs.

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Tales From Rainwater Pond - Reviewed by GWEN OREL

Though his tales lack suspense and much drama, Billy Roche's natural performance demands attention. Students of acting and Irish literature should not miss this American premiere.

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Trad - Reviewed by GWEN OREL

This hilarious, haunting play about a 100-year-old son and his father goes from silly to heartbreaking without ever becoming serious, thanks to wonderful performers and sharp directing.

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Spinning the Times - Reviewed by NICOLE VILLENEUVE

Each of these five short plays has its own appeal, but the decision to put such diverse works together leaves one disoriented, as an outsider looking in.

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The Irish Gift of Gab Not Always Welcome in Pride of Parnell Street and Spinning the Times By Tom Sellar

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Dublin Thief Loses Son, Shoots Smack, Robs Tourists: John Simon

Seeing Sebastian Barry's "The Pride of Parnell Street" at New York's 59E59 Theaters reminded me of what a slump modern Irish theater is in.

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The Pride of Parnell Street - Reviewed by KARL LEVETT

This portrait of the marriage of a marginalized man and woman in 1990s inner-city Dublin gleams with authentic sound but is ultimately unconvincing at its sentimental heart.

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Sebastian Barry's drama remains compelling through long and circuitous dialogues that could be trying for even the best of audiences, showing what can be done when a writer, director and actors combine their en…

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Troupe can pride itself on moving 'Street' By FRANK SCHECK (***)

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Looking Back, in Wistfulness and in Stereo By BEN BRANTLEY

Sebastian Barry's new play is a lovingly acted, fiercely sentimental elegy for a marriage.

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The Pride of Parnell Street
Reviewedby:Andy Buck

Sebastian Barry's bleak yet beautiful drama about domestic violence is well served by Aidan Kelly and Mary Murray.

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'Eclipsed' Catches Light in the Depths of Despair By Peter Marks

It's a surprisingly vivacious portrait of helplessness, of the entirely human impulse to adapt, to get by even when there's little hope life will get better.

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Eclipsed
Review By PAUL HARRIS

It's a gut-wrenching saga told with poignancy and wit, precisely the kind of niche today's cutting-edge theater strives to fill.

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'Eclipsed' Brings Story Of Liberian Civil War To Stage

Playwright Danai Gurira says the inspiration for her new play, Eclipsed, came from a photograph one of her professors showed her when she was in graduate school.

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