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New York Times

Veteran Producer in Talks to Aid ‘Hair’
The Public Theater is recruiting Jeffrey Richards, the veteran Broadway producer, to help raise the $6.5 million budget for the revival of “Hair.”

At Knitting Factory, a Final Manhattan Show
For a downtown club’s last night in Manhattan, a cacophonous “Auld Lang Syne” was appropriate.

Music Sales Fell in 2008, but Climbed on the Web

Arts, Briefly: Crime Show Rerun Tops Kennedy Honors

Time Out New York

Cabin fever
Cast and audience fly high together in Wickets.

Review: Pal Joey
The Roundabout's revival of a 1940 Rodgers and Hart oldie has a hollow center, but nifty flash around the edges.

Review: The Cripple of Inishmaan
Martin McDonagh spews blarney and bile for this 1997 farce about desperate Irish villagers.

Review: Women Beware Women
Red Bull explores lust horizons in its sumptuous revival of Women Beware Women; the territory is fraught with traps.

Gothamist

Extra, Extra
U2's The Edge talks Spiderman: The Musical, and he thinks he could open on Broadway in a year.

nypress

Best of the Fests
A Downtown theater fest smackdown

Hartford Courant

Frank Rizzo: 'Civil War Christmas' Best Play Of Year

New Haven Advocate

Passing Out of 2008
A hopeful year for theatergoers, even when prone and unconscious

Red Curtains
Long Wharf Theater's blood drive.

The Valley Advocate

Pioneer Valley Stage: Local Pros
Four professional actors who love the stage and the Valley.

Six Degrees
Although Kevin Bacon has been in an almost absurd number of movies—Mystic River, Hollow Man,...

Star-Ledger

'The Importance of Being Earnest'