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Theater Review | 'Carpenters Gold': All Hail the Barefoot Leader With His Own Soundtrack Caryn James (Theater)Carpenters Gold is a buoyant, wacky play about a cult leader who exerts a Stepford-like control over the people around him. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Theater Review | 'Ladies & Gents': Stalls for Scandal, Mens and Womens, No Waiting Neil Genzlinger (Theater)Noir is the operative tone in this show, but the presentation is nothing like a conventional mysterys, and not just because of the stall-lined setting. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Theater Review | 'Boom': Meeting Cute on the Eve of Destruction Ben Brantley (Theater)Boom winds up speaking, quietly and piquantly, to our enduring fascination with and need for myths about the beginning of life as well as its end. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
My Manhattan: Broadway for Big Kids, Beyond Spoonfuls of Sugar Robin Pogrebin (Theater)Taking your kids to a Broadway musical might seem like a no-brainer. But beyond the Lion Kings, Mary Poppinses and Little Mermaids, the terrain gets more complicated. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Colorado Court Rules No Smoking Means Exactly That, Even on Stage Kirk Johnson (Theater)The Colorado Court of Appeals noted that smoking, by itself, is not sufficiently expressive to qualify for First Amendment protection. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
A British Dynasty for All Seasons Charles Mcgrath (Theater)Among the many things for which he will be remembered, Paul Scofield helped to usher in a whole era of classy, lushly produced costume films set in the Tudor period. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Theater Review: Stepping Onstage: Flawed and the Enigmatic Stephen Wells (Theater)There are many paradoxes to be dealt with in Engaging Shaw, John Morogiellos 2001 play currently being given its Garden State premiere at New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Theater Review | 'Jackie Mason: The Ultimate Jew': Hes Telling You This for the Last Time Jason Zinoman (Theater)The cantankerous Jackie Mason has pursued the Jewish joke with a tenacity and single-mindedness that exceed those of anyone else in show business. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
A Collaboration Moves Forward Into the Past Robert Simonson (Theater)One senses that the director James Macdonald is content to leave things only partly defined for the audience. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
An Edge-of-Town Story as Simple as the Blues Erik Piepenburg (Theater)Jez Butterworth, the author of the play Parlour Song, talks about finding inspiration in an unusual trio named Pinter, Friel and Waits. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
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
Thinking Russian, but at American Speed Rosemarie Tichler (Theater)Viacheslav Dolgachev, the artistic director of the Moscow New Drama Theater, and Dianne Wiest, the two-time Oscar-winning actress, answered questions about the new production of The Seagull. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Stage Teamwork: A Long Wharf-Quinnipiac Partnership Elizabeth Maker (Theater)Students at Quinnipiac University will have access to Long Wharfs two theaters, its technical production shops and its professional staff. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Theater Review: Castaway or Swept Away? Anita Gates (Theater)Shipwrecked! An Entertainment at Long Wharf Theaters Stage II examines the nature of storytelling. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Theater Review: A Wild 21st-Century Take on a Rabbis Mystical Tale Naomi Siegel (Theater)An office worker is set on a twisting course to spiritual enlightenment in The Mad 7 at McCarter Theaters Berlind Theater in Princeton. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Left Coast Ideas, Floating East Joy Goodwin (Theater)Increasingly, Berkeley Repertory Theaters galvanizing productions have been traveling to New York. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Music Review | Christine Ebersole and Billy Stritch: A Big Noise Blows in, and Swing Is Swung Stephen Holden (Theater)A shortcut to describing the show business chemistry of Christine Ebersole and Billy Stritch might be to call them, with reservations, the next generations Bette Midler and Mel Torm. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Theater Review | 'U.S. Drag': Two Single Women, Stylishly Shallow, in Pursuit of a Killer Jason Zinoman (Theater)Gina Gionfriddos play is a sly, shaky satire about a sensationalizing celebrity culture where even murder can be turned into entertainment. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Youre Welcome to See Her Live, Not to Ask About Her Life Campbell Robertson (Theater)Mary-Louise Parker is back on the New York stage after four years absence her longest stretch away from the theater since she was 17. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Theater Review | Bette Midler: A Naughty-but-Nice Miss M Sets Up Shop in Sin City Charles Isherwood (Theater)Bette Midler, who ignited a career by giving a good name to bad taste, has brought her new extravaganza to Las Vegas, the temple of tastelessness. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Well: Falling Object, Real Drama on Broadway Tara Parker-Pope (Theater)A heavy metal plate the size of a steering wheel landed on two audience members at a preview of Gypsy. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Arts, Briefly: Pete Doherty Plots a Stage Musical The New York Times (Theater)Pete Doherty and Carl Barat, a former band mate from the Libertines, are writing a musical for the Donmar Warehouse in London. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Arts, Briefly: Shakespeare for 4-Year-Olds The New York Times (Theater)The Royal Shakespeare Company, starting a new initiative to improve the teaching of Shakespeare, is recommending that children be taught his works beginning at 4. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Theater Review | 'Dead Mans Cell Phone': A Nagging Call to Tidy Up an Unfinished Life Charles Isherwood (Theater)Mary-Louise Parker gives a bold, stylized performance in tune with the dreamy spirit of Sarah Ruhls beguiling new comedy. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Theater Review | '(Rus)h': Love and Glare Jason Zinoman (Theater)(Rus)h features some of the slickest and most pointless high-tech work in New York theater today. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Theater Review | 'Liberty City': Growing Up With Miami on Her Mind Jason Zinoman (Theater)Like a washed-out photograph from a forgotten era, this brisk coming-of-age story evokes a time and a place without the illumination of vivid details. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Theater Review | 'Jamaica, Farewell': Some Dreams Are Made of Smuggling Caryn James (Theater)Debra Ehrhardts loopy Jamaica, Farewell suggests a cautionary rule about solo shows: Maybe everyone has a story, but not all stories are worth 90 minutes. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Theater Review | 'Lower Ninth': Where Men Are Stranded Caryn James (Theater)Undigested themes and a slapdash structure make Beau WIllimons Lower Ninth feel more like a start than a finished play. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Theater Review | 'Paradise Park': Visions of Heaven Under the Big Top Caryn James (Theater)Paradise Park has an appealing, absurdist surface, yet beneath the giddiness there is something thats rare in Charles Mees work: the pull of genuine emotion. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Theater Review | 'Parlour Song': Night of the Living Room Dead Ben Brantley (Theater)Parlour Song is a smart and rueful new play by the British dramatist Jez Butterworth. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Theater Listings The New York Times (Theater)Selective listings from theater critics of The New York Times. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Arts, Briefly: 'Pal Joey' to Return Compiled by Lawrence Van Gelder (Theater)The revival of Pal Joey appears set for a Broadway stage. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Arts, Briefly: New at Lincoln Center Compiled by Lawrence Van Gelder (Theater)Lincoln Center Theaters LCT3 is a new program dedicated to producing the work of emerging playwrights, directors and designers. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Theater Review | 'Man-Made': Creation Under the Clouds Andrea Stevens (Theater)Susan Mosakowskis Man-Made is a play of ideas. Unfortunately it reads better than it is performed. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Theater Review | 'Brains and Puppets': Storytelling With Two Conditions Neil Genzlinger (Theater)Edward Einhorn sets himself an impossible task with the two short plays he has written and is offering under the banner Brains and Puppets. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Theater Review | 'Year One of the Empire': History Lessons, With Song and Dance Wilborn Hampton (Theater)Year One of the Empire is an enlightening, entertaining and at times engrossing dramatized survey of Americas coming of imperialistic age at the turn of the 20th century. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Theater Review | 'Secrets of a Soccer Mom': Moms Leave the Sidelines to Mix Souls and Goals Neil Genzlinger (Theater)There are some dandy laughs in this pleasant if predictable play about three soccer moms. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Theater Review | 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof': Yet Another Life for Maggie the Cat Ben Brantley (Theater)The only fiercely charged element in this otherwise flabby revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is Anika Noni Roses Maggie. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
A Broadway Mother of Many Identities Felicia R. Lee (Theater)For anyone who knows Eisa Davis, her life story is a sly wink at the ideas in Passing Strange about identity and art. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Faces From a Neighborhood on the Brink Celia Mcgee (Theater)The play Liberty City takes a look at African-Americans and Caribbean immigrants in the vibrant and politically charged Miami neighborhood of Liberty City from the late 1960s on. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Far Beyond That Old Song and Dance Charles Isherwood (Theater)Several new Off Broadway musicals are going light on the cheer, heavy on the quirkiness and angst. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Enter the Boosters, Bearing Theaters Jesse Green (Theater)In recent years many of the 75 companies that form the League of Resident Theaters have joined what amounts to a nonprofit theatrical building boom. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Theater Review | 'Tim Minchin': Daffy Songs of Fish Feet and Tumors Neil Genzlinger (Theater)Tim Minchin's self-titled one-man show at New World Stages is dazzlingly daffy and refreshing. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Theater Review | 'Ghosts': Husbands Gift to Widow: A List of Secrets and Lies Caryn James (Theater)If youre not going to tart up a classic, then the acting has to be superb. Thats hardly the case in the Pearl Theater Companys faithful, earnest production of Ibsens still dynamic Ghosts. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Theater Review: The View From Uptown: American Dreaming to a Latin Beat Charles Isherwood (Theater)First seen Off Broadway last year, In the Heights moves uptown with its considerable assets confidently in place. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Theater Review | 'Six': Plays by Numbers Neil Genzlinger (Theater)Six, an evening of one-acts by Asian-American writers, has its highlights even if it is a bit too long. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Theater Review | 'The Scariest ': Stage Frights Jason Zinoman (Theater)The title of this shrewdly produced series of nine spooky short plays raises a question: Who is the scariest of The Scariest? 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Theater Review | '27 Rue de Fleurus': Alice in Charge Rachel Saltz (Theater)The creators of 27 Rue de Fleurus, a misguided new musical at Urban Stages, want to give Alice B. Toklas a chance to shine. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Theater Review | 'Fabulous Divas of Broadway': Wigs, Wit and Eyelashes of Theaters Great Ladies Pat Ryan (Theater)So many divas: 32 in Alan Palmers one-man show. Thats about 2.7 minutes per diva. 08AM Mar 11, 2008