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New York Times

At Shubert, the Future Has Roots in the Past
The ascension of Philip J. Smith and Robert E. Wankel to the top of the Shubert Organization ended a 20-plus-year guessing game about the future of the largest theater-owning enterprise in the nation.

A Natural Cassavetes Woman, Theatricalized, Magnified and Multiplied
The walls come tumbling down in “Opening Night,” Ivo van Hove’s wild and woolly stage version of the 1977 John Cassavetes movie about a Broadway-bound play in crisis.

A Snarling Sinatra Tribute Boots Santa
Christmas, Michael Feinstein and Frank Sinatra: three different, tenuously connected worlds collided Tuesday evening at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency, where Mr. Feinstein brought a drastically revamped version of his annual holiday extravaganza.

In a Waterlogged City, Operatic Puppets and Shadows on a Curtain
Over the weekend, just before the city of Venice became nearly impassable, a production of Monteverdi’s “Return of Ulysses,” devised by William Kentridge, had a short, magical run at the ancient Malibran Theater.

New York Times ArtsBeat Blog

Broadway's 'Grease' to Close

New York Daily News The Cultural Tourist

Noel, Tony and I
An early sign that I would be an odd child, and, doubtless in the minds of many, an odd adult, was that shortly after my bar mitzvah I asked my parents to buy me the recording of Noel Coward's U.S. cabaret debut, "Noel Coward at Las Vegas."

amNY New York City Theater

Theater Review of Liza's at the Palace
“Do you remember when I used to sit down during the second act? Now I do it during the first act,” says 62-year-old Liza Minnelli, who is making her first Broadway appearance in a decade at the Palace Theatre, where her mother Judy Garland once triumphed.

Newsday

Liza Minnelli reigns in opening at The Palace Theatre

ny1

"Grease" To Leave Broadway, Continue Touring

Time Out New York

Lucky breaks
Pal Joey’s understudy gets the lead due to an injury—it’s almost a Broadway tradition.

Review: Cape Disappointment
The Debate Society takes to the wide-open American road for this wonderfully creepy new piece.

Review: Oh, Those Beautiful Weimar Girls!
Willkommen to this dance-theater piece about Germany between the wars.

Review: Hillary: A Modern Greek Tragedy with a (Somewhat) Happy Ending
Our soon-to-be Secretary of State is the subject of this myth-inflected new satire.

Time Out New York Blog

Opening Night: An IM postmortem
editors David Cote (Theater) and Melissa Anderson (Film) discuss the current production of Ivo van Hove’s Opening Night at BAM, ...

Color us surprised
It may be one of the great interracial marriages of our time. Bartlett Sher (who is white) will direct Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by the late August Wilson (who was black).

nypress

Look Out Below
Cape Disappointment has a view on America

Hartford Courant

Rizzo: Old Standards At Goodspeed
It's going to be a season of familiar titles for the 46th season at the Goodspeed Opera House

Hartford Advocate

Stage: Rust Remover
The 2008 installment of Hartford Stage's A Christmas Carol — A Ghost Story of Christmas will...

Stage: Santa/Satan
Conor McPherson's The Seafarer is a non-conventional Christmas play about four Irish "blokes"...

New Haven Advocate

Nun But the Brave
The Catechism shows require special people skills

Otter Listen
Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas at the Goodspeed.

The Valley Advocate

A Menace to Society
A new docudrama gives a reproductive rights pioneer his propers.

Star-Ledger

The present and future of arts education

Bergen Record

"Santaland Diaries" is a holiday martini for mature elves

Princeton Packet

Review: ‘Boy Gets Girl’