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Friday, October 16, 2009 at 6am (Broadway Time)

0156: Readiness Is All - Live

by MusicalTalk

RECORDED LIVE at the Cochrane Theatre, London. Tim introduces a thrilling event packed with new musical theatre songwriting, with prizes presented by Maria Friedman and Frank Lazarus, and featuring Nichola McAu…

Friday, October 16, 2009 at midnight (Broadway Time)

My Wonderful Day, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, UK By Ian Shuttleworth (***)

It's not classic Ayckbourn, but there's certainly life in the old dog yet.

My Wonderful Day - Review by Kevin Berry

What a remarkable performance.

My Wonderful Day at the Stephen Joseph, Scarborough - Review by Jeremy Kingston (****)

Ayckbourn himself directs with intense precision.

Raoul at the Barbican Theatre, review By Dominic Cavendish (**)

James Thiérrée's Raoul at the Barbican Theatre is based on a dreamy, threadbare scenario.

A comic clash of alter egos in Raoul By Sarah Frater (***)

Raoul - Review by Sam Marlowe (***)

James Thiérrée blends clowning, acrobatics and dance to tell fluid stories that are disorientating and delightful

Life is a Dream - Review by Ben Dowell

Life Is a Dream
Review By DAVID BENEDICT

Escalating tension between truth and illusion -- and fear made painful by hope -- governs the surprising plotting of "Life Is a Dream" thanks to the vise-like grip of Jonathan Munby's production for the Donmar …

Dominic West of 'The Wire' Brings Passion, Poetry to Murder
Review by Warwick Thompson (***)

Dominic West is Wired in Life Is A Dream By Henry Hitchings (***)

Life is a Dream, Donmar Warehouse, London - Reviewed by Paul Taylor (***)

Life is a Dream at the Donmar Warehouse, London by Dominic Maxwell (****)

Dominic West impresses throughout in this unusual and hugely appealing display of classical acting with a twinkle in its eye

Life Is a Dream - Review by Michael Coveney (****)

Life Is a Dream (****)

West mesmerises in a tale of betrayal, vengeance and murder, writes Michael Billington

Life Is A Dream at the Donmar Warehouse, review By Charles Spencer (****)

Dominic West captures Segismundo's baffled confusion and pain in Pedro Calderon de la Barca's Life Is A Dream at the Donmar Warehouse.

The Wire's West taps into his inner savage By Quentin Letts (*****)

Dominic West: My opening night in the West End was for my mum

Just two weeks ago, the mother of The Wire star Dominic West died after a battle against leukaemia.

Bells, whistles...and the big sleep in Endgame By Quentin Letts (*)

Mr Rylance delivers a performance of characteristic commitment - mercurial and full of distinctive tics. But otherwise this show is a dog of tedious self-pretension.

Endgame - Review by Michael Coveney (***)

Endgame (***)

Beckettian world edging into darkness, marred by self-indulgence, writes Michael Billington

First Night: Endgame, Duchess Theatre, London By Paul Taylor (****)

Apocalypse wow! Rylance triumphs again

Brief Encounter With ... Miriam Margolyes

The reinvention of Mark Rylance

Theater Listings: Oct. 16 - 22

Selective listings from theater critics of The New York Times.

Arts, Briefly: Sutton Foster Joins 'Anyone Can Whistle'
Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

Arts, Briefly: Cast Overhaul for 'God of Carnage'
Compiled by Dave Itzkoff

Casting news: God of Carnage by David Cote

THE EVE OF DESTRUCTION by ROGER B, HARRIS

New cast of God of Carnage- Lahti, Potts, Smits, Stott - to take over November 17.

Doug Kreeger, Randy Harrison, Leslie Kritzer, Brian Charles Rooney, et al. Set for Yale Rep's Pop!

London Buzz: Pamela Anderson Pops Out of the Lamp for Theatrical Debut

Disney's "Snow White" Concert Presentation to Feature Brown

Creative Capital, NYFA Present "Internet for Artists" Workshop

Frances You Sanderson Cast as Lady Macduff in 'Macbeth' Film; Kickstarter Funds Rise

Gruesome Playground Injuries, with Blair and Fleischer, Begins Houston Run Oct. 16

Sharif's The Rise and Fall of Day Opens Brand:NEW Fesitval in Hartford

World Premiere of Palomino Opens at KC Rep Oct. 16

Broadway Cabaret Festival Plays Town Hall Oct. 16-18

Wendy Hammond's Absence, a Tale of Secrets in a Marriage, Opens in PA Oct. 16

Kiss Me, Kate Concerts, with Christine Andreas, Presented Oct. 16-18

Taccone Directs West Coast Premiere of Tiny Kushner, Short Plays by Pulitzer Winner

An Evening with Joan Collins Plays Long Beach Oct. 16

Today In Theatre History: OCTOBER 16

Another Brian Dennehy Blog. Really. No, Really. By Frank Rizzo

John Astin Set for Visible Theatre Fundraiser

Lynda Carter, S. Epatha Merkerson, Alana De La Garza, et al. Set for Complexions Contemporary Ballet Gala

Margaret Colin, Isabel Keating, Larry Pine, Michael Urie, et al. Set for MCC's PlayLab Readings

Zelda Fichandler Award Will Honor Regional Theatre Directors

The First of the Red Hot Mamas By WILL FRIEDWALD

Sophie Tucker's recordings from 1910-22, just reissued on CD, show why she was the original Red Hot Mama.

Review of Hamlet at Broadway's Broadhurst by Anne Siegel

John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey: Lost and Found
Reviewedby:Brian Scott Lipton

The couple's very fine new cabaret show at the Cafe Carlyle once again demonstrates their great chemistry and superb musicianship.

Music Review | Chita Rivera
Broadway Baby Paints the Town By STEPHEN HOLDEN

Ms. Rivera is the pied piper of razzle-dazzle challenging you to shake off your workaday blues, join the carnival parade and rejoice in life.

Not the promised Landers By FRANK SCHECK (** 1/2)

The Lady With All the Answers
Review by Marilyn Stasio

This diverting showpiece has more on its mind than nostalgia for yesteryear.

Riz' Blog Review: "The Fantasticks" at New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre By Frank Rizzo

Pain, Old and New, With Glints of Hope By KEN JAWOROWSKI

Even in the saddest moments of "The Traveling Players Present the Women of Troy" a tiny glimmer of hope endures.

The Playboy of the Western World - Reviewed by GWEN OREL

J.M. Synge's comic, lyrical 1907 masterpiece about a man who enchants a village by claiming to have murdered his father shines in a solid production by the Pearl Theatre.

Theater Review | 'My Life in a Nutshell'
Tales of Death in Suspended Animation By RACHEL SALTZ

Hanne Tierney's evocative puppet play is at once death-obsessed and jaunty, abstract and full of geometric precision.

Theater Review | 'The Playboy of the Western World'
What Becomes a Hero? A Bit of Merry Patricide By WILBORN HAMPTON

The ponderous tone that permeates this revival robs the play of much of its sparkle and wit.

This 'Little House' is road-worthy By ROHAN PRESTON

The musical has returned, this time to the Ordway, with tightened tales of sisterhood, romance and fire.

Tweaked 'Little House' musical still a half-pint short of greatness By Dominic P. Papatola

Though the topline stars are the same, the version of 'Little House on the Prairie: The Musical' now playing at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts is significantly different from the production that open…

'Sleep No More' is a great awakening By Jenna Scherer

Make your own 'Macbeth' By Don Aucoin

In eerie 'Sleep No More,' the audience wanders through the Bard's bloody business

A trip down memory lane By Don Aucoin

Though the show is thin and cliched, "A Long and Winding Road" has surprising potency as a chronicle of Maureen McGovern's up-and-down showbiz career.

Part Three Of 'Orphans' Home' Mirrors Current Events By SUSAN HOOD

See Spot sing By Quinton Skinner

The musical version of '101 Dalmatians' does some good tricks, but true theatricality is never unleashed.

Pretty cute 'Dalmatians' By ROHAN PRESTON

The new musical based on the book snaps to life whenever Cruella shows up onstage.

Culture Monster
Review: 'Children of a Lesser God' at Deaf West Theatre by Charlotte Stoudt

Culture Monster
'As good as it gets': Gordon Davidson reminisces about 'Children of a Lesser God" by Diane Haithman

Audio Slide Show: Small Town Drama

Annie Baker talks about what inspired her to write the play "Circle Mirror Transformation."

Quick There, Actor, Make Like a Tree By ANITA GATES

Annie Baker's new play is absorbing, unblinking and sharply funny.

Plagued: A Love Story - Reviewed by RUTHIE FIERBERG

From the first downbeat of "Plagued: A Love Story," Casey L. Filiaci and Zak Sandler's orchestrations ring with enchantment, ushering in the aura of a land far, far away. The show, however, gets bogged down in …

The Toymaker - Reviewed by RUTHIE FIERBERG

Despite excessive length, this intricate and beautiful musical movingly tells the story of a craftsman in a doomed town and a modern woman searching for herself.

ArtsBeat
NYMF: Five Questions About 'Lighter' By Erik Piepenburg

ArtsBeat
NYMF: Five Questions About 'Open the Dark Door' By Erik Piepenburg

10 milestones in Second City history by Justin Shady

Seminal moments since SC's founding in 1959

Second City's latest alumni breakouts by Anthony D'Alessandro

Sampling of comedy enterprise's next talent class

Second City brings funny to business by Steve Hesler

Laff institute uses comedy to coach clients

Greats go through Second City Mainstage by Anthony D'Alessandro

Signature sketch show has launched many careers

Photo Op: KISS Rocker Paul Stanley Rolls All Night at Billy Elliot

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