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Laramie Killing Given Epilogue a Decade Later
Ten years after the notorious murder of a gay college student, a theater company is returning to Wyoming.
Photographs: Revisiting ‘The Laramie Project’

Realizing a Musical Dickensian Dream
From a producer’s point of view, now might be just about the best of times to float a Broadway musical based on “A Tale of Two Cities.”

In a Fragmented World, the Search for Family Cohesion Can Become Scary
The obscure has the air of the obvious in “Three Changes,” the wan and sinister new play by Nicky Silver.
* Audio Slide Show: Alive and Real

A 1942 Senate Campaign, With Cobwebs
The Peccadillo Theater Company’s revival of the forgotten 1942 comedy “Johnny on a Spot” highlights the gap between political humor then and now.

Sock Hop Girls Step Into Go-Go Boots as a Decade of Pop Hits Spins
For a certain generation — and all fanciers of the girl-group sound — this show is an utter charm bomb.

Moral Righteousness Meets Down and Dirty
“Anger/Nation” maintains Radiohole’s trademark aesthetic: down and dirty, shameless and proudly debauched.

Feasting on Rapid-Fire Jokes and Wine
Brian Parks has apparently acquired himself a boatload of book learning, and he dumps pretty much all of it on you in his new, kind of annoying black comedy.

John Booth, 89, Author of Theater Books, Is Dead
Mr. Booth wrote books about the performing arts and was the first chairman of the Theater Development Fund, which for more than 40 years has offered discount tickets at its TKTS booths in Manhattan.

The Lincoln Center Turns 50 and Prepares a Party
On Wednesday Lincoln Center will announce a yearlong series of events to celebrate its half-century of existence.
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* Video

Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
...The American Theater Wing and the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation said that the wing would be the new home for the Jonathan Larson Grants. The grants, which provide financial support to up-and-coming creators of musical theater, were established by the Larson family after Jonathan Larson’s death in 1996.

Teamwork With a Fluency in Many Musical Languages
Barbara Carroll brought poise, elegance, a classical sense of structure and a swinging vigor to her performance at the Oak Room on Sunday.

New York Daily News

Hollywood shines on B'way this fall
With his string of "Harry Potter" blockbusters, Daniel Radcliffe is one of fall's brightest stars on Broadway. But Katie Holmes, Jeremy Piven, Kristin Scott Thomas and Haley Joel Osment are other stars casting their own alluring glows on Broadway.

Broadway's behind-the-scenes players
Stars get all the attention on Broadway, but there are players whose contributions are regularly seen even if they're not. Meet three go-to players for sho...

Look who's gawking at celebs on Broadway
We're used to looking at actors onstage, but what would these celebs see if they gazed into the audience? Here are some possibilities....

Off-Broadway and off-putting
You can bet things will get ugly when an apartment is as sterile and pretty as the one Nate (Dylan McDermott) and Laurel (Maura Tierney) call home in "Three Changes," Nicky Silver's nonsensical concep...
[also reviewed: The Marvelous Wonderettes, Beast]

New York Daily News The Cultural Tourist Blog

Morandi at the Met
If there is such a thing as Zen painting, the work of the Italian Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964) may be the essence of it.

New York Post

Riedel: Newman is against women singers
Randy Newman is unique. Not because the 64-year-old composer's singing drawl is instantly recognizable, or because he's one of pop's master storytellers who never tells his own story. The guy is singular because he's a philosopher who lives in the real world. If you take the time to...

Godfela
Soft-spoken actor breaks out as Afrobeat pioneer

Family ties get tangled
It's not surprising that Wilson Milam, who oversaw the bloody staging of "The Lieutenant of Inishmore," was tapped to direct...

New York Sun

Dancers, Ogres & Horses
Starry Revivals Are a Hot Ticket This Season
Do you prefer your singing underdogs prepubescent and British or flatulent and green? Either way, the fall season should have something for you. "Billy Elliot" (opening November 13) garnered ecstatic reviews in London in 2005; Elton John has by many…

Into the Breach, Out of the Chaos: 'Beast' and 'Anger/Nation'
The wooden boxes that litter the set of "Beast," Michael Weller's muddled picaresque, are both instantly familiar and jarringly unusual. Long and wide enough to comfortably house bulked-up young men and women, they are draped in the stars and stripes…

Lincoln Center Plans Yearlong 50th-Anniversary Celebration

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Time Out Theater Review: "Spring Awakening"

Village Voice

Playwright Jon Fosse Offers a Curious Birthday Present in Sa Ka La by Alexis Soloski

Split Decision in Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's King of Shadows by Alexis Soloski

What's That Smell and Enter Laughing Keep the Trivial Happily Alive by Michael Feingold

Sightlines: There or Here by Ruth McCann

Sightlines: Reid Farrington's The Passion Project by Tom Sellar

Sightlines: Southern Promises by Rob Weinert-Kendt

New York Observer

Bless You, Pittu! Peter Bartlett Swishes Through Campy Musical Spoof

Hartford Courant

Plotting Of Ironic 'Three Changes' Weakens In Second Act

Bergen Record

Bergen's "Full Monty:" Lewd? Nude?
One guy plays a Chippendale dancer, but the question is whether the others will bare all in the big finale. The cast says the audience will "get their money's worth."

"Three Changes' " dark twists make for a gripping drama

Strallen thrilled to play Poppins on Broadway

Princeton Packet

Review: ‘The Odd Couple’

Review: ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’

Review: ‘Herringbone’