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Associated Press

A warmhearted 'Billy Elliot' dances to Broadway with superlative cast

Elton John Celebrates 'Billy Elliot' on Broadway
Elton John still can't believe he's a Broadway hitmaker.

Patti LuPone Revival of 'Gypsy' Closing March 1
Madame Rose and her daughters are leaving Broadway.

Whoopi to Produce a Musical 'Sister Act' in London
Whoopi Goldberg is getting in the act again with ''Sister Act.''.

Bloomberg.com

`Billy Elliot,' Coal Miner's Son, Leaps to Broadway's Heights: John Simon
A show's claim to offer ``something for everyone'' usually signals disaster: the lowest common denominator and the antithesis of art. Well, for once, the exception proves true: ``Billy Elliot'' -- London's long-running hit with Elton John's music, finally replicated on Broadway -- really does have something for everyone, and that something is, gloriously, art.

Hare Satirizes Government Sleaze, Czar Boris Plots for Power: London Stage
This week's London theater openings deal with the timely subject of government crisis. Curiously, the world premiere of David Hare's satire on politics and press hypocrisy, ``Gethsemane,'' feels less contemporary than Mussorgsky's 1869 opera ``Boris Godunov.''

Gloomy Gorillas, Fruity Hats as Toxic Dreams Add Spice to Vienna Theater
How much would you pay to see a chorus girl do an act with a giant banana?

Wall Street Journal

Karl Marx in a Tutu
Terry Teachout has seen his share of bad Broadway musicals, but he can't recall one that was quite so vulgar and bogus as "Billy Elliot."
* Video: Terry Teachout on Billy Elliot

Entertainment Weekly

Review: Billy Elliot
Elton John's stage musical Billy Elliot, like the hero at its center, is a rough-around-the-edges charmer with talent and ambition to spare, one that grabs you by the scruff of your neck (and your heartstrings) and will not let go until the final curtain.

USA Today

'Billy Elliot' musical taps into the hope and energy of youth

'American Buffalo' stars feast on diversity

The Money Times

Elton John Mesmerizes In Broadway Musical "Billy Elliot"

Time Magazine

Billy Elliot: London's Hit Musical Scores on Broadway

Christian Science Monitor

A composer moves opera into the future
John Adams looks for a stylistic revolution from the next generation of composers.

Opera reaches for new scale
Old art form is flourishing in US as new opera companies open and works are premiered.

Variety

'Sister Act' heads to West End
Whoopi Goldberg, Stage Ent. to produce

'Gypsy' revival to close March 1
Broadway musical has grossed $26 million

Review: Billy Elliot: The Musical
Three-and-a-half years may seem a long time for an instantaneous London smash like "Billy Elliot: The Musical" to cross the Atlantic, but the delay looks to have played serendipitously into the producers' hands.

Review: The Blue Dragon
Personal appearances by true theatrical visionaries are rare enough that attention must be paid, even when the work at hand is less than their seamless best. Robert Lepage's slow, cerebral meditation on modern China...

Back Stage

Billy Elliot: The Musical reviwed by David Sheward
What could easily have become a feel-good treacle fest — particularly with Elton John composing the music — turns out to be one of the smartest and most satisfying Broadway musicals in years.

Andrea Marcovicci Sings Movies II reviewed by David Finkle
Let's address the Andrea Marcovicci issue head on. Anyone knowing the two schools of thought on her won't have to ask to what I'm referring, but I'll name it anyway: the voice.

La La La Human Steps: Amjad reviewed by Lisa Jo Sagolla
La La La Human Steps, Amjad is a relentless hour and 40 minutes of repetitious phrases of souped-up classical ballet-based movements devoid of emotion and danced with mechanical precision and ludicrous rapidity.