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In Hard Times, Born to Pirouette
Much of the power of “Billy Elliot” as an honest tear-jerker lies in its ability to give equal weight to the sweet dreams of terpsichorean flight and the sourness of a dream-denying reality.
* Audio Slide Show: Billy on Broadway

Dancing Santas and Other Traditions of the Season
Never content to rest on its laurels, this year’s splendid “Radio City Christmas Spectacular” builds on last year’s reimagined and reinvigorated 75th-anniversary model.

Sex Without the Shame, but Not Without the Consequences
“Sexual Neuroses,” an Electric Pear production directed by Kristjan Thor, is a serious, thematically layered work that should be more interesting than it is.

Rollicking One-Man Show About More Than It’s About
Mike Birbiglia’s pacing is simply perfect in “Sleepwalk With Me,” his funny, appealing one-man show at the Bleecker Street Theater.

Songs of Speculation, Found in Unlikely Places
When belting in the expansive chest voice that dominated Wednesday’s show at the Metropolitan Room, Baby Jane Dexter exerted a formidable command.

Arts, Briefly: ‘Gypsy’ Revival With Lupone to Close

New York Times ArtsBeat Blog

Whoopi Takes Her 'Sister Act' to London Stage

New York Daily News

Hot Seats: Theater and comedy picks for this weekend

[regarding 'Billy Elliot' - the review is on page 2 - "'Billy' makes great leap to B'way" is the headline - darned if I can find it online though]

amNY New York City Theater Blog

Theater Review of Billy Elliot: The Musical

Metropolitan Opera Cancels Ghost of Versailles

Gypsy to Close March 1

Whoopi to Produce Sister Act Musical

Newsday

Review: 'Billy Elliot'
Broadway's long, dark, dry spell of big, smart, smash musicals is officially over. "Billy Elliot," the 2005 London adaptation of the 2000 movie, finally arrived in a production as seriously thrilling as it is deeply lovable.

Reviews: 'Musical of Musicals,' 'Pillowman'

Linda Winer: Gift ideas for theatergoers on your list

New York Post

Riedel: Dollar 'Billy' leaps to mine
B'ways success began in bath

Elton's tiny-dancer show raises the barre
After some rocky previews, marred by a sluggish hydraulic set and overly thick accents, "Billy Elliot" opened last night, proving itself the best gift from Britain since Harry Potter. This tale of a motherless ...

Cindy Adams: Liza tkaes page from her own life
Liza - ask not Liza who - on the phone from Italy: "I'm in Torino. This is definitely what ....

New York Journal-News

'Billy Elliot' is the Broadway season's first big musical hit

'Saturn Returns' just lost in time

Time Out New York

Review: The Lastmaker
Chicago's pioneering performance group Goat Island bids adieu with this complex farewell piece.

New York Magazine Vulture Blog

Jim Jones and Damon Dash on Their New Play and Making the Next ‘Reasonable Doubt’

Hartford Courant

Smashing 'Billy Elliot' Shows The Theatrical Powers Of Stephen Daldry

Star-Ledger

Two River Theater names managing director

Trenton Times

Six times three equals 'Absurd Person Singular'

Bergen Record

'Billy Elliot' is great fun, choreographed not to end