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New York Times

Off-Center Refractions of African-American Worlds
Cultural images of black America are tweaked, pulled and twisted like Silly Putty in “The Shipment,” a subversive, seriously funny new theater piece by Young Jean Lee.

Tom O’Horgan, 84, Creator of ‘Hair’ Is Dead
Mr. O'Horgan was a famously innovative director who brought a Downtown, countercultural sensibility to Uptown theater.

Shock Greets Move to Close Amato Opera in May
The opera has served up homemade productions for 60 years in basement theaters, always under the loving care of Anthony Amato.

Arts, Briefly: James Gandolfini Is Broadway Bound

New York Daily News

Tony Soprano hitting Broadway
James Gandolfini is famous for playing a Tony. A new role could win him one. Producers of "God of Carnage" said the "Sopranos" heavy will star in the play by Yasmina Reza ("Art"), which begins previews on Feb. 28.

amNY New York City Theater

Theater Review of Dear Edwina
Composer Zina Goldrich and lyricist-librettist Marcy Heisler, who will finally make their Broadway debut in 2010 with a musical version of the 1998 film “Ever After,’ are already regarded as one of the best young writing teams in musical theater.

Amato Opera to Close

New York Post

'Sex-fiend' movie lure
Several women who accused an Academy Award-winning songwriter of sexual assault said he lured them from the other side of the country with the promise of movie parts. According to sources, four...

Cindy Adams: Here comes the Sundance buzz
...William H. Macy, replacing Jeremy Piven in "Speed-the-Plow" tonight, learned the script in two weeks. "Exit the King" is next into that theater so, in any case, exit "Speed-the-Plow" Feb. 22 . . .

New York Journal-News

Anything goes, but 'Fiddler'
When director Steve Zawel interviewed to teach theater at Solomon Schechter School of Westchester in Hartsdale, he figured it'd be a lot of seasons of "Fiddler on the Roof" at the Jewish day school. He figured wrong. This week, it's "Anything Goes."

A winter's tale from summer Shakespeare fest
Here's a winter's tale to help your midsummer night's dreaming: "Pericles," "Much Ado About Nothing" and the madcap "Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)" ...

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Thackeray Quackery
Becky Shaw is a Fair of Vanities

Star-Ledger

Lynn Redgrave, Kate Mulgrew to star at Paper Mill Playhouse

The New Jersey Ballet steps out to theatrical favorites
The dancers had stars in their eyes. When New Jersey Ballet performed on Saturday at the Community Theatre in Morristown, the company presented "Ballet on Broadway: Dancing on the Great White Way,"