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Friday, December 11, 2009 at 3pm (Broadway Time)

Chicago On Tour: Cincinnati, OH

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Chicago On Tour: Cincinnati, OH Sheila Gray from FOX19 News in Cincinnati gets a "Velma" make-over. From: chicagothemusical Views: 934 0 ratings Time: 01:50 More in Entertainment

Friday, December 11, 2009 at 2pm (Broadway Time)

Chicago On Tour: World's Youngest Velma

by Chicago The Musical

Chicago On Tour: World's Youngest Velma From: chicagothemusical Views: 1957 13 ratings Time: 00:47 More in Entertainment

Friday, December 11, 2009 at midnight (Broadway Time)

The Best of 2009 Blog Challenge- Day 10- Album

by Boo

What's rocking your world? After doing a bit of research through my I-Tunes folder and my Last Fm account, I conclude that this was a low year for me on the buying music front. I think there were several albu…

Theater Listings: Dec. 11 - 17

Selective listings from theater critics of The New York Times.

Weekend Guide: Theater

Goldie Semple, Canadian Stage Great, Dies at 56

Yazbeck, Lewis, Cavenaugh and More Set for Engeman Broadway Concerts

Conn, Drescher, Kane and More to Join Love, Loss and What I Wore; Show Recoups

Fran Drescher, Janeane Garofalo & More to Join Love, Loss and What I Wore

Stage and Screen Star Plimpton Among Obie Awards Judges

Arts, Briefly: New Play About Tennessee Williams By JULIE BLOOM; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

Dear Edwina Returns to Off-Broadway's DR2 Kids Theatre Dec. 11

We Are Lights Concerts, With Moore, Groenendaal and Robbins, Begin in White Plains Dec. 11

Summer of the Soda Fountain Girls Concerts Begin Dec. 11

Today In Theatre History: DECEMBER 11

Musical See Rock City, Usually Cast With Seven, Gets a Troupe of 32 in UM Studio Run

Michael Jackson, Loretta Lynn, André Previn, et al. to Recieve Special Grammy Awards

Connecticut Arts Groups Get NEA Funding-- Real Art Wats Tops the List By Frank Rizzo

Playblog: Hair Collects Food for the Hungry

Shaw Festival 2010 season's stars announced by Bruce DeMara

Tea at Five Tells Hepburn Story By Charles Donelan

Stephanie Zimbalist in Fine Form as Katharine Hepburn By Charles Donelan

Culture Monster
Theater review: 'Tea at Five' at Alhecama Theatre by Phillip Brandes

In director Jenny Sullivan's impeccably staged revival for Santa Barbara's Ensemble Theatre Company, Zimbalist is at the top of her game, spanning 45 years to convincingly depict Hepburn engaging us over aftern…

Eight singular sensations

You may not find them on the bestseller lists of most music stores, but these eight discs of show tunes make ideal gifts for the theatre lover in your life, writes Richard Ouzounian

'A Christmas Carol' By LAUREL GRAEBER

It's especially fitting that Literally Alive Children's Theater, which adapts its material from literary sources, has filled its "Christmas Carol" with young faces.

Orpheus X

An original, beautifully staged take on a much told tale

Riz's Blog Review: Athol Fugard's "Have You See Us?" at Long Wharf theatre By Frank Rizzo

Rothko's a Monster in New Play, Bully Baron Pursues Ingenue
Review by Warwick Thompson

'Oleanna' Meets 'The Verdict' By TERRY TEACHOUT

David Mamet's new play, "Race," features a stellar cast portraying characters charged with manic energy and caught in a struggle for power. It's all a bit too familiar.

A minor deity of blunted fisticuffs by Elisabeth Vincentelli

I was rather underwhelmed by the new cast of "God of Carnage," as you can see in today's review.

New cast, less carnage by Elisabeth Vincentelli (** 1/2)

Gandolfini Departs Puke-Spewing 'Carnage,' Enter Smits: Review by John Simon (***)

'God of Carnage': replacement cast no 'God' almighty, but pretty good by Joe Dziemianowicz (***)

A Duet of Schubert and Beckett By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

"One Evening" is an ominous and imaginative, if not entirely effective, musical drama that explores the impact of Schubert's work on the writings of Samuel Beckett.

Dylan Thomas, Rediscovered Within His Own Words By KEN JAWOROWSKI

Almost every line of "Do Not Go Gentle" is so lovely that when the whole proves to be less than the sum of its parts, the result doesn't feel as disappointing as it otherwise might.

The Judgment of Paris - Reviewed by LISA JO SAGOLLA

Austin McCormick's "The Judgment of Paris" is the perfect antidote to all that stark minimalism too often equated with aesthetic sophistication on Manhattan's downtown arts scene.

Red Noir
Reviewedby:Adam R. Perlman

The Living Theatre's production of Anne Waldman's play is primarily an exercise in audience participation.

Red Noir - Reviewed by JASON FITZGERALD

Judith Malina and poet-playwright Anne Waldman fail to ignite the anarchist revolution, but they sure give audiences a good time.

The Great Recession
Review By SAM THIELMAN

Short play collections are always a mixed bag, but rarely are they as mixed as the Flea Theater's "The Great Recession."

The Great Recession
Reviewedby:Patrick Lee

Six of theater's hippest playwrights pen thematically linked plays in this hit-or-miss evening.

The Great Recession - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

The Flea Theater offers plenty of volume with six plays and a cast of more than 50. But the biggest bargain is seeing the young cast of Bats.

Love's Labour's Lost
Review By MARILYN STASIO

As an exhibition of low comedy, the show is notable for the cunning design and exhilarating execution of double entendres and vulgar sight gags. But it's thin gruel for more refined theatrical palates.

Love's Labour's Lost
Reviewedby:Andy Propst

Dominic Dromgoole's production of Shakespeare's comedy is bewilderingly tedious.

It's 'Lost' in translation By FRANK SCHECK (** 1/2)

Love's Labour's Lost - Reviewed by LEONARD JACOBS

One of Shakespeare's most entertaining comedies is given a laugh-a-minute styling, though nearly at the risk of overwhelming the play's not-so-funny message.

'Love's Labour's Lost' is joyous entertainment By JENNIFER FARRAR, Associated Press

Pledge Week at That Elizabethan Animal House By BEN BRANTLEY

The Shakespeare's Globe production of "Love's Labour's Lost" reveals that this word-infatuated frolic may well be the first and best example of a college comedy.

REVIEW ROUNDUP: The Addams Family at Chicago's Oriental Theatre

'The Addams Family' Is Happy/Sad by Michael J. Roberts

'The Addams Family: A New Musical' casts a spell on audiences of all ages by Philip Potempa

'Addams Family' snappy but not flawless By Barbara Vitello

The Addams Family - Review By Kris Vire

The largely admirable new musical based on cartoonist Charles Addams's creations has a lot going for it, most notably director-designers McDermott and Crouch's intimate understanding of Addams's aesthetic and a…

The Addams Family
Review By STEVEN OXMAN

Slickly and grandly designed, completely accessible, consistently amusing and in its own way a genuine tribute to old-fashioned Broadway musical entertainment, this tuner loves the use of a spotlight, shining i…

13 top one-liners from 'The Addams Family' musical By Leah A. Zeldes

Photo Op: Broadway-Bound Addams Family Lights Up Chicago on Opening Night

Single Them Out! By: Leslie (Hoban) Blake

Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, and Tom Ford discuss the making of the new film A Single Man.

DVD Extra: Pre-code musicals at Warner Archive by Lou Lumenick

Spare Times: For Children By LAUREL GRAEBER

Cheap Seat of the Day: Young Jean Lee's Lear at Soho Rep by David Cote

Photo Op: Hair Goes Old-School with Vinyl Release of Grammy-Nominated Cast Album

Back for seconds: 'SCTV' alums reprise madcap show BY DAREL JEVENS

Fifty Years of Second City By JOANNE KAUFMAN

A roll call of Second City alumni reads like a who's who of comedy. Joanne Kaufman looks at how the Chicago improv company produced such a stellar cast of comedians.

Who Is the Broadway.com Star of the Year for 2009? Vote Here!

Playblog: After 80 Years, So Help Me God! Makes Manhattan Bow

Young playwright turns to real life for inspiration BY HEDY WEISS

For "In the Heights," Lin-Manuel Miranda found inspiration in his boyhood neighborhood.

The Best-Selling Record of All By ROY J. HARRIS JR.

A mere 54 words, expressing the simple yearning for happier times. Roy J. Harris Jr. explains why Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" endures.

Slide Show: Christmas Roasts

Photos of alternative holiday shows in New York.

Come on, Santa, Put Your Clothes Back On By NEIL GENZLINGER

Beloved sacred and secular holiday stories are being bisected, dissected and disrespected all over town.

'Icarus' prepares to take flight at Lookingglass BY MARY HOULIHAN

A Playwright's Other Job By ELLEN GAMERMAN

Tracy Letts, the Pulitzer-winning playwright of "August: Osage County" and "Superior Donuts," has a lesser-known role: actor.

Podcast: Hugh Panaro gets into Fagin makeup by Joel Markowitz

Hugh Panaro transforms into FAGIN at OLIVER at Walnut Street Theatre, and walks us through the process. The funny Rob McClure joins in. It's funny and interesting stuff, and you'll learn how to blacken and turn…

Playblog: Zeta-Jones Sings "Send in the Clowns"

Zeta-Jones moves to 'A Little Night Music' on Broadway By Elysa Gardner

The Death of Method Acting By DAVID THOMSON

The acting methodology developed by Russian director Konstantin Stanislavsky and epitomized by Marlon Brando has been replaced by an acting style more like that of Cary Grant or Bob Hope.

Understudies to the Stars By ELLEN GAMERMAN

The actors tapped to stand by for stars like Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman on Broadway rarely get a chance to fill in.

A capital visit of dramatic import By Peter Marks

Theaters across the pond consider making a bigger splash in D.C.

DIVA TALK: Chatting with Finian's Rainbow's Kate Baldwin

Nancy Anderson, David Burnham, et al. Set for Ordinary Days at South Coast Rep

Benedict Campbell, Kelli Fox, Steven Sutcliffe, et al. Set for 2010 Shaw Festival

A Little Night Music Revival Will Get a Cast Album

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