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Sing Out, Laura. Its Your Turn. Celia Mcgee (Theater)Laura Benanti, who has played a sultry movie star with Antonio Banderas in Nine and a slinky singer in Swing!, is now a stripper in Gypsy. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Theater: Two Helpings of Pie From Broadways Fridge Charles Isherwood (Theater)The opportunity to see revivals of Gypsy and South Pacific side by side underscores the distance the American musical traveled in the 10 years between them. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Arts, Briefly: Colorado Upholds Ban on Stage Smoking Compiled by Lawrence Van Gelder (Theater)A Colorado appeals court has ruled that stage performances are not exempt from the states two-year-old ban on indoor smoking. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Stars on Bill at Lincoln Centers July Festival Ben Sisario (Theater)Drama will be center stage at the Lincoln Center Festival this summer, with productions of Euripides and Samuel Beckett, Laurie Andersons latest performance piece and a rare production of Die Soldaten. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Theater Review | 'Rainbow Kiss': Depths of Obsession in Scottish Highlands Wilborn Hampton (Theater)Disbelief needs to be suspended early and often in Simon Farquhars Rainbow Kiss, a frantic yet tedious play about male sexual obsession. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Theater Review | 'Attorney for the Damned': Justice as a Game Played Rough, if Tunefully Andy Webster (Theater)Attorney for the Damned is a rock musical articulating satirical, nightmarish views of the criminal justice system. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Arts, Briefly: Glory Days Is Bound for Broadway Campbell Robertson (Theater)Glory Days, a show about four high school friends that had its premiere this year at the Signature Theater in Arlington, Va., is moving to the Circle in the Square Theater. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Arts, Briefly: Rent Gets a New Lease on Life Campbell Robertson (Theater)Rent, scheduled to close on June 1, has extended its run through Sept. 7. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Theater Review | 'Missives': Reach Out and Write to Someone Rachel Saltz (Theater)Why are we so lonely? Why cant we communicate or connect? Garret Jon Groenveld gives these questions an unusual spin in his interesting but uneven play. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Theater Review | 'The Four of Us': Bonds of Friendship, Frayed by Envy Charles Isherwood (Theater)The Four of Us, a comic drama by Itamar Moses, is a clever if modest study of the strains that success can put on a friendship. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Theater Review | 'The Drunken City': Time to Sober Up, Bride-to-Be, and Smell the Coffee Charles Isherwood (Theater)Three young women stagger through a fateful night on the town in Adam Bocks flimsy but sweet comedy The Drunken City. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Theater Listings The New York Times (Theater)Selective listings from theater critics of The New York Times. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Arts, Briefly: Two New Prizes for Playwrights Campbell Robertson; Compiled by Lawrence Van Gelder (Theater)The board of the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust announced on Thursday the creation of two theater awards for American playwrights. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Theater Review | 'The Fifth Column': Who Does This Playwright Think He Is? Hemingway? Wilborn Hampton (Theater)In The Fifth Column, Ernest Hemingways play about love and espionage in the Spanish Civil War, the tough guy with a heart of gold is center stage. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Theater Review | Gypsy: Curtain Up! Its Pattis Turn at Gypsy Ben Brantley (Theater)Patti LuPone has found her focus as a dangerously obsessed Momma Rose in a wallop-packing revival of Gypsy. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
As a Musical Winds Down, the Writings on the Wall Tina Kelley (Theater)The walls of the Nederlander Theater, where Rent is approaching its final act, are awash with a rich history of graffiti. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Theater Review | 'Juno': A Mother Whose Life Song Is About Tenement Nightmares, Not Broadway Dreams Ben Brantley (Theater)Theatergoers who are truly passionate about the history and development of the musical will want to take advantage of the fleeting return of Juno to New York. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
World Briefing | Americas: Colombia: Uribe Offers to Release Rebels for Hostages Freedom Reuters (International)The government offered cash and reduced jail terms to leftist guerrillas in exchange for releasing the politician Ingrid Betancourt after years of captivity in jungle camps. Ms. Betancourt, left, 46, was kidnapped during her 2002 presidential campaign by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, and is suffering from malnutrition and hepatitis B, according to Colombias human rights ombudsman. President lvaro Uribe said his government would maintain a $100 million fund to pay rewards to guerrillas who free any of the hundreds of kidnapping victims held by the FARC. On Thursday he signed a decree allowing for a mass release of guerrillas from jail if Ms. Betancourt was freed. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
World Briefing | United Nations: Report Says Lebanese Leader Killed by Criminal Network Warren Hoge (International)A criminal network was behind the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri and is linked to some of the 20 additional killings of anti-Syrian officials in Lebanon, the head of the United Nations inquiry into the deaths, David Bellemare of Canada, said in his first report since taking the post in November. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Britain: More Chaos at Heathrow Alan Cowell (International)For the second successive day, British Airways canceled dozens of flights at Heathrow Airports glittery new Terminal 5 as its staff struggled with state-of-the-art technology supposed to hasten check-in and baggage-handling procedures. The hitches since the terminal opened on Thursday were definitely not British Airways finest hour, the airlines chief executive, Willie Walsh, told reporters. Some passengers slept overnight inside the steel-and-glass terminal, reviving precisely those images of delay and decline in British aviation that British Airways said Terminal 5 would banish. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Italy: Cheese Move Earns Approval Ian Fisher (International)Some 25 brands of buffalo mozzarella with elevated levels of the carcinogen dioxin were pulled from stores as the nation worked to reassure foreign buyers that none of the contaminated cheese had left the country. After the recall, European Union health officials declared themselves satisfied that Italy was confronting the problem. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
World Briefing | Americas: Cuba: Cellphones for Anyone Marc Lacey (International)The government announced that it would permit the general public to buy cellphones, which until now were set aside mainly for the Communist Party elite. The move was seen as a sign of liberalization by the new president, Ral Castro. But most Cubans, who earn only about $20 monthly in state salaries, will find it hard to afford the phones without help from relatives off the island. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Doha Trade Deal Still Possible, Bush Says Reuters (International)The United States is willing to make agricultural concessions to reach a new world trade deal if other countries open their markets to more American exports, President Bush said Friday. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Trying to Get the Swiss to Talk Carter Dougherty (International)A tax-evasion scandal in Germany has sparked a debate in Switzerland about the countrys banking secrecy. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Dalai Lama Warns China on Its News Reports David Barboza (International)The Dalai Lama criticized Chinas state-controlled media, saying its coverage of the unrest in Tibet was biased and could eventually sow the seeds of racial tension there. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
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