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Friday, November 6, 2009 at noon (Broadway Time)

When messaging gets in the way of listening

by Jodisc

Recently I witnessed a major CEO speaking at a relatively informal event.  This CEO had been making all the rounds trying to reposition a well-known brand.  While speaking with this small group, a com…

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Friday, November 6, 2009 at midnight (Broadway Time)

Idiot Savant
Reviewed by Thom Geier (C+)

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'Idiot Savant' at Public Theater odd, not idiotic By LINDA WINER

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PHOTO CALL: Foreman's Idiot Savant Opens Off-Broadway

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The Understudy -- Theater Review By Frank Scheck

This intermittently amusing backstage comedy suffers from credibility problems.

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The Understudy - Review by Matt Windman

Scott Ellis' animated 90-minute production makes up for the underwhelming text by providing solid laughs, energized performances, and a strange scenic design that twists and turns to reveal ridiculously elabora…

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Review: "The Understudy," a new off-Broadway play BY ROBERT FELDBERG

While it has a certain cleverness, "The Understudy" disappoints, in part due to the modest level of its ambition.

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'The Understudy' and 'Idiot Savant': a sketchy comedy, and 'Savant' garde by Joe Dziemianowicz

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Stand-in's tale won't stand out by Elisabeth Vincentelli (**)

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'The Understudy' revels in actors' insecurities By MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Critic

The play is slight and not as funny as it should be.

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The Understudy
Review By DAVID ROONEY

Funny but slight, clever but without any real depth, the one-act gains considerable fizz from Scott Ellis' punchy production and from the bristling interplay of its three fine actors, each of them exposing diff…

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A backup waits for the star to fall in 'The Understudy By LINDA WINER

Theresa Rebeck's "The Understudy" is a slight but breezy and knowing backstage comedy that is cast, yes, with two TV stars.

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When a Star Takes a Turn Awaiting a Star Turn By CHARLES ISHERWOOD

Julie White is fabricating bountiful laughs from a display of strained nerves in Theresa Rebeck's scattershot comedy.

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The Understudy - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

Despite some structural problems and a few gaps in credibility, Theresa Rebeck's new play on the backstabbing backstage world of the contemporary theatre is a fast, funny 90 minutes.

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The Understudy
Reviewed by Melissa Rose Bernardo (B+)

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The Lady With (Almost) All the Answers By Dan Kois

Sometimes a veneer of professionalism is the only thing masking all-out panic. Julie White, in The Understudy, gives us both at once.

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Review: "The Understudy" By: David Cote - Time Out New York

"The Understudy" is a bittersweet portrait of people forgetting who they are in the mad rush to become something else.

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The Understudy
Reviewedby:Sandy MacDonald

The Roundabout serves up a superbly-acted production of Theresa Rebeck's backstage comedy.

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Scenes From the Farcical Stage of Life

Playwright Theresa Rebeck finally gets it right with "The Understudy," says Terry Teachout.

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The Understudy
Review by Matthew Murray

The words "laugh riot" have not traditionally been associated with Franz Kafka, but that may soon need to change.

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Video: 'The Understudy'

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Good Humor: Playwright Theresa Rebeck Pens a Comedy by Vanessa Lawrence

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TV Star Gosselaar Falls for Kafka in Rebeck's Play 'Understudy' By Philip Boroff

Director Scott Ellis said he hired Gosselaar with some trepidation even though the actor had aced a Los Angeles audition.

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Now Starring, Off Broadway and in the Peloton By JASON GAY

It has been a decade and a half since Mark-Paul Gosselaar last roamed the halls as Zack Morris on "Saved by the Bell;" he has since developed another distinction: as perhaps the best celebrity-slash-bicyclist i…

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'Blood: A Comedy' at Mill Hill Playhouse in Trenton

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Peter Filichia's Diary: The Understudy and the understudies

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Theater Listings: Nov. 6 - 12

Selective listings from theater critics of The New York Times.

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Epic Theatre Ensemble's Shakespeare Remix Program Earns Coming Up Taller Award

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Off-Broadway Will Be Schooled in Sister's Christmas Catechism

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Angela Lansbury to Receive Signature's 2010 Stephen Sondheim Award

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Actor and Magician Carl Ballantine Dies at 92

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Justin Bohon, Kathy Fitzgerald Head Cast of Goodspeed's Jim Henson's Emmet Otter

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Temperamentals Will Return to Off-Broadway in 2010; Urie and Ryan Reprise Roles

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Fiona Shaw to Reprise T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land at London's Wilton's Music Hall

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Playwrights Horizons Launches World Premiere of This

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A New Iliad Emerges With Classic Stage's The Age of Iron, Nov. 6-Dec. 13 in NYC

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Today in Theatre History: NOVEMBER 6

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Foote's Final Work, The Orphans' Home Cycle, Premieres Off-Broadway Nov. 5

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Broadway's Present Laughter Tickets On Sale Starting Nov. 9

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Reading of Jerusalem Syndrome to Feature Larsen, Zien, Craig, Reiber, Green and More

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Green Day to Perform Live in NYC on New Year's Eve

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William H. Macy Set for Dirty Girl Film

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Elliott Gould to Guest Star on November 20 Law & Order

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Susan Lucci to Serve as Grand Marshall for Hollywood Christmas Parade

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Neil Patrick Harris to Be Honored by Trevor Project at Holiday Gala

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Charles S. Dutton to Perform From Jail to Yale in Fort Worth November 7

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Bill Pullman to Appear in Brent Rose's "50 Character in 50 Weeks -- If Rose Meets His Goal (One Day Left)

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Attention theater-lovers: Keep your December nights open by Chris Jones

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Billon, Clarke, Gall, Maggs, Placey Among Playwrights Heard in Tarragon's Play Reading Week

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Jarrow's 92YTribeca Concert to Feature Special Guests Frasier and Winters

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Women's Event to Fete Goodman; Ringwald, D'Abruzzo and Barnhart to Appear

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McKechnie, Hamlisch and "Every Little Step" Creators to Make Barnes and Noble Appearance

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Susan Blackwell, Daniel Reichard, et al. Set for New Group's Conceiving the Kid Event

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Gerard Alessandrini Set for Forbidden Broadway: Behind the Mylar Curtain Events

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Robert Cuccioli, Alison Fraser Set for George Street Playhouse Holiday Cabaret

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Eisa Davis, Ari Gold, Anika Noni Rose, et al. to Join Colman Domingo at Joe's Pub

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Glory Days Cast to Hold November 23 Reunion Concert at Joe's Pub

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Monheit and Burn the Floor to Perform at Acting Company Gala

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Lisa Banes, Jane Monheit, Burn the Floor Cast Members Set for Shakespearean Masquerade

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Amaris' Swimming to Spalding to Play HERE in December

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Baby It's You!, New Musical About the Woman Behind the Shirelles, Premieres in CA

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Maltby to Direct Clark, Hillner, Karl, Voytko, Fellner and Blaemire in Baby Reading

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Mary Tyler Moore Will Be Into the Woods Narrator in Bernadette Peters Concert

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Understudies from Hair, Shrek, Rainbow and Pacific Set for At This Performance

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Laura Benanti to Play Kennedy Center as Part of Barbara Cook's Spotlight Series

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Inside Track Blog: The Divine Bette Midler Departs Vegas Jan. 2010

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Bette Midler to End Las Vegas Colosseum Run on January 31

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Second City tickets sell out in 15 minutes by Chris Jones

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John Turturro to Star in CSC's Henry IV Readings

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Pirandello Under the Lens of Classic Stage in November; Turturro Is Henry IV

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The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity - Review By J. Cooper Robb

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Rabbit Hole - Review By J. Cooper Robb

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'Hunter Gatherers' is farcical frolic with friends By Toby Zinman

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Love, Linda - the life of Mrs. Cole Porter at the Triad - Review by OSCAR E. MOORE

In this one woman, one hour, one sided biographical musical we get a rapid, superficial, speed dial version of their 35 years together - despite his being homosexual.

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Masterful acting of an honoured script in August: Osage County by Richard Ouzounian (***)

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Fresh life breathed into 'Young Frankenstein' BY HEDY WEISS

More bubbly, faster pace than Broadway original

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Culture Monster
Theater review: "All Cake, No File" at Actors Gang at the Ivy Substation by F. Kathleen Foley

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Culture Monster
Theater review: 'Just Imagine' at NoHo Arts Center by Charlotte Stoudt

"Just Imagine," directed by Steve Altman, lives somewhere between real gratification and slight lull with its steady menu of Beatles and Lennon gems.

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Culture Monster
Theater review: 'No Man's Land' at Odyssey Theatre by Charlotte Stoudt

Harold Pinter named the four characters in "No Man's Land" after real-life cricket players, and in Michael Peretzian's assured revival, now at the Odyssey Theatre, the game is in full swing.

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Riz's Blog Review: "Mistakes Were Made" at Hartford Stage By Frank Rizzo

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