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Children of Eden

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Astoria Performing Arts Center, Off-Off-Broadway By Dan Dinero BOTTOM LINE: A moving production of one of the best musicals that never made it to Broadway, and at $18, you get far more than you pay for. …

Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at midnight (Broadway Time)

Doris E. Travis, Last of the Ziegfeld Girls, Dies at 106 By DOUGLAS MARTIN

Mrs. Travis, who may have been the youngest Ziegfeld Girl ever, went on to perform in stage productions and films.

Doris Eaton Travis, Ziegfeld Follies Girl and BC/EFA Performer, Dies at 106

Ray Charles Tuner Unchain My Heart Books Ethel Barrymore Theatre

Unchain My Heart: The Ray Charles Musical to Play Broadway's Barrymore Theatre

Promises, Promises Cast Recording Due in June

CSC's 2010-2011 Season to Feature Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard in Three Sisters

Judith Light & More Set for Broadway Debut of Lombardi

Public Invited to Rock of Ages' First Anniversary Celebration May 12

Goodspeed's Annie Get Your Gun, with Gambatese and Earley, Opens May 12

Ruhl's Passion Play, with Fumusa, Noonan, Reddin, Wiesner, Opens in Brooklyn May 12

LATW's Side Man, with Wood and Lahti, Begins May 12

Today In Theatre History: MAY 12

Kherington Payne and Jonathan Platero Join Cast of Lincoln Theater's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

"Rock of Ages" with Constantine Maroulis, "Hair" To Ready Tour in New Haven By Frank Rizzo

Franz, Ambrose, Williams, Johnston, Lauria and Thomas Set for Berkshire Playwrights Gala

Hartford Stage Completes 2010-2011 Season with Snow Falling on Cedars

Hugh Jackman, Jay-Z, Scarlett Johansson, Daniel Radcliffe, Meryl Streep, et al. Lend Signatures for BC/EFA Benefit

Will Carol Burnett Follow Betty White as "SNL" Host?

Memorial for Craig Noel, founding director of San Diego's Old Globe, set for May 24 in Balboa Park

Theatre Shelf

DC Theatre Scene unveils "Theatre Shelf," a column dedicated to recommending theatre-related books, CDs and DVDs. The column is written by Brad Hathaway, best known for his pioneering web site, Potomac Stages, …

Laura Benanti: Let Me Entertain You
Review by Michael Miyazaki

DANCE OF DEATH by CLIVE HIRSCHHORN

Make sure you get a sitter for the night, because you re not going to want to bring your kids to this one.

Peter Pan
Review by Dennis Harvey

Lively enough to keep kids alert.

Peter Pan
SanFrancisco Reviewby:Robert Sokol

This new production of J.M. Barrie's classic story is mostly notable for its high-tech special effects.

Loose Screws in Family Week and Asylum By Alexis Soloski

The One Man (two man (not quite)) Hamlet - Reviewed by OSCAR E. MOORE

Before you scream "Not another Hamlet!" read on...

Romeo and Hamlet - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

This Shakespearian mash-up of "Romeo and Juliet" and "Hamlet" is pretty witty and most definitely gay.

Stuffed and Unstrung - Reviewed by TOM PENKETH

A pair of 400-pound gorillas hovers over the puppet comedy "Stuffed and Unstrung," and neither is made of cloth with halved ping-pong balls for eyes.

Einstein Looks Back, With Help From Puppets By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

The best thing I can say about "Breath on the Mirror" is that the show's puppets are more expressive than its people.

Classic Children's Stories, With a Little Gender Bending Thrown In By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

"Le Cirque Féerique" seems designed with two distinct audiences in mind: children and their forever-young parents.

Black Men in America as Stressed-Out Strivers By ANITA GATES

Daniel Beaty's solo show, "Through the Night," is full of moments of desperation, triumph and hope.

He'll Find Something That's Wrong With You By JASON ZINOMAN

Jules Romains's delightful "Doctor Knock, or the Triumph of Medicine" is a 1923 spoof of the arrogance of the medical profession.

Strangers Find Solace From Riots Against U.S. By JASON ZINOMAN

In "Five Days in March," two strangers check into a hotel and sleep together for five days while protests about American aggression rage.

An island love triangle? It's all Greek to us By FRANK SCHECK (* 1/2)

"Lascivious Something," which opened last night at the Women's Project, features intriguing situations that are undercut by pretentious stylization and inert writing.

Lascivious Something - Reviewed by ANDY PROPST

Sheila Callaghan's play about a modern variant of the demigod Dionysus, set at the dawn of the Reagan era, is ambitious, but its rich language and potentially explosive plot are undermined by theatrical gimmick…

Lascivious Something
Reviewedby:David Finkle

Shelia Callaghan's new play about the complicated personal life of an American expat in Greece is overripe and occasionally confusing.

Revisit: 'Hair' by Elisabeth Vincentelli

'Hair's' new hippies aren't so hip; adopting 'The Kid' By LINDA WINER

It hurts to have to say this. But "Hair" has been allowed to deteriorate into the packaged '60s theme park that this revival had so smartly avoided.

The New Group Births The Kid; the Mint and CSC Resurrect Dr. Knock and The Forest By Michael Feingold

The Kid - Review By Richard Seff

In Christopher Sieber, this production at the small Acorn Theatre on Theatre Row is blessed with a leading man... who is here giving a major star turn.

'The Kid,' a new off-Broadway musical, is funny and touching BY ROBERT FELDBERG

A Kid Is Born the Night The Kid Is Born

Photo Op: New Musical The Kid Takes Its Official First Steps Off-Broadway

PHOTO CALL: New Musical The Kid Opens Off-Broadway

PHOTO CALL: 2010 New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards

Photo Op: Orphans' Home Cycle and More Honored by the New York Drama Critics' Circle

PHOTO FLASH: Viola Davis, Hallie Foote, Tony Kushner, Denzel Washington, and More at New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards

The Inner Circle: Slide show! New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards reception by Adam Feldman

Party Lines Slideshow: Kelsey Grammer, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Denzel Washington, and More at the Tony Nominess Press Reception

Denzel Washington Talks Fences On "Regis and Kelly"

Million Dollar Quartet Performs on "Letterman" (Video)

CELEB PlayBlogger Montego Glover: May 11

"It's You I Like": 2010 Tony Nominee Scanlan Says Rapture Star Scott Was Perfect Working Partner

First Person: Local Boy Makes Good: Red Scribe John Logan on the Joy of His Tony-Nominated Debut

Prime Time: 2010 Tony Nominee John Logan Talks About Red's Provocative Canvas Scene

Gold Derby by Tom O'Neil: Playwright Don Margulies on Tonys contender 'Time Stands Still'

Doris Eaton Travis, the last living legendary Ziegfeld Follies Girls, died May 10, at age 106, by Jack Quinn

Doris loved coming back to Broadway for the event every year after - 12 times altogether. From 1998 - 2010, she only missed it in 2007.

Chaplin Will Bask in Musical Limelight at La Jolla Playhouse

London's Royal Court Theatre to Offer Its First-Ever Family Christmas Show Get Santa!

Tim Curry to Guest Star on Season Finale of CBS' Criminal Minds

Richard Griffiths to Join Matt LeBlanc, Stephen Mangan in Showtime/BBC Comedy Series Episodes

Derek Jacobi to Join Jeremy Irons in Showtime's The Borgias

Anthony Mackie to Join Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly in Real Steel Film

Leanne Jones, Julie Atherton, Ian 'H' Watkins to Join Miranda Sings for London Concerts

Wayne Brady, Whoopi Goldberg, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Brian Kerwin, et al. Among Daytime Emmy Award Nomimnees

Jason Robert Brown, Megan Hilty, Ana Ortiz, et al. Set for Angels 4 Ana Benefit Concert

Cheyenne Jackson, Niecy Nash to Co-Host NewNowNext Awards Ceremony

Flavin and Evans to Lead Cast of Chichester Festival Theatre's 42nd Street

PHOTO CALL: Annie Get Your Gun at Goodspeed Opera House

PHOTO CALL: Laila Robins Stars in Off-Broadway's That Face

PHOTO CALL: Shear's Restoration Plays Off-Broadway at NYTW

PHOTO FLASH: Al Pacino, Hamish Linklater, Jesse L. Martin, Lily Rabe Rehearse Merchant of Venice

Photo Op: Her Name Is Barbra, and She's In the House at Fences

Hugh Jackman Gets Down for Tokyo Commercial

"24" Presidents Serve Successive Terms on Broadway

"Funding the Arts" -- Watch Where You're Pointing That Thing!

A dance-theater troupe presents a spy caper skewering the issue of falling public arts funding.

50 NYC Artists Sought for Creative Capital's Professional Development Program

Unique opportunity for artists to step outside daily routines and focus on professional skills and artistic goals.

Announcing the West Village Musical Theatre Festival

Glenn Beck, Now a Theater Festival Is Named After You

The 9.13 Festival takes shape.

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