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A Radical Vixen Retakes the Stage
Jane Fonda is starring in “33 Variations,” a play by Moisés Kaufman, almost 50 years after she last appeared on Broadway.

Brantley: Again, a Time to Wait for Whatever
Broadway takes another helping of lives stripped down to their essentials, be they kings, queens or tramps.

Isherwood: Off Broadway Offers Its Own Sort of Stars
Some pretty stellar names are making new work away from the shining lights of Broadway this spring.

The Newest Established Leading Man
Oliver Platt is stepping into a big-time, showbiz part: Nathan Detroit, the colorful dice-game impresario in “Guys and Dolls.”
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Rupert Everett Is Not Having a Midlife Crisis
He’s turning 50. He has no regrets about being out. And he’s about to star on Broadway.

The Sell: 'reasons to be pretty'
A closer look at the evolution of the poster art for Neil LaBute’s Broadway play.

Faces to Watch:

Josefina Scaglione - The tale of how Ms. Scaglione’s YouTube video landed her the lead in the revival of “West Side Story” is on its way to becoming Broadway lore.

Geoffrey Rush - Happy 100th birthday, Eugène Ionesco; enter Geoffrey Rush in “Exit the King

Lauren Graham - Ms. Graham is making her Broadway debut in “Guys and Dolls.”

Yasmina Reza - Yasmina Reza’s latest work, “God of Carnage,” is an Albee-esque comedy of manners.

Christian Camargo - Christian Camargo seems to have been polishing the facets of a potentially hypnotic Hamlet for quite some time.

Kate Whoriskey - Ms. Whoriskey is directing a new play called “Inked Baby,” by Christina Anderson.

Darrell Dennis - Mr. Dennis, hailing from the Shuswap Nation in British Columbia, aims to explode stereotypes in “Tales of an Urban Indian.”

Amari Cheatom - Mr. Cheatom will make his Off Broadway debut in the revival of “Zooman and the Sign.”

Under Broadway, the Subway Hums Bernstein
On the 2, 4 and 5 lines, the trains’ electronic whine sounds like the beginning of a “West Side Story” song.

New York Daily News

Vietnam vets rally against B'way Jane
It's been 37 years since Jane Fonda straddled a Viet Cong anti-aircraft gun - but the controversy followed her to Broadway Saturday....

New York Daily News The Cultural Tourist

Allegro
During their 16-year collaboration Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein wrote five iconic musicals ("Oklahoma!", "Carousel," "South Pacific," "The King and I" and "The Sound of Music"); one film score ("State Fair") with two enduring standards ("Grand Night for Singing" and "It Might As Well Be Spring"); the first original musical for television ("Cinderella"), and three flops...

amNY New York City Theater

This Beautiful City at Vineyard Theatre Preview

Newsday

Linda Winer: Hugh Jackman is Oscar's sexiest host

New York Post

Cindy Adams: Fickle gold finger of fate
[Performers and their statuettes]

Liz Smith: Michelle & Oprah: cover girls
"I want a sound here, a sound like - perfume, coming out of the orchestra pit," said the musical genius Stephen Sondheim to his orches trator, Jonathan Tunick ... Estelle Parsons is only 81 years old and the toast of Broadway. Her star turn as the pill-popping matriarch Violet Weston in the hit play "August: Osage County" has been lauded. Now the feisty octogenarian is reuniting with Arthur Penn, ....

New York Journal-News

Bierko keeps eyes on Sky
Rye Brook's Craig Bierko, who plays Sky Masterson in the Broadway revival of "Guys and Dolls," says his character bears a resemblance to another iconic role he played: Harold Hill in "The Music Man."

The Broadway lineup
While we wait for the new season to take off, here's what is already playing on Broadway: ...

Time Out New York Upstaged Blog

Adam Feldman: Last call for The Story of My Life

Hartford Courant

Spilling The Beans with Diane Venora
If Diane Venora had had her way, she would never have become an actress. She wanted to be a hairdresser.

Hartford Courant Behind the Curtain Blog

"Jersey" Continues to Pack 'Em In

How to Play Dead
Craig Wroe plays the title role in Sarah Ruhl's "Dead Man's Cell Phone" now playing through March 15 at Hartford 's TheaterWorks. It's a part with a few swell scenes in the second act of the play.

Will Culture Commish Move Jeopardize NEA Funding?
As state legislators consider the governor's proposal to merge the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism into the Department of Economic Development, it raises a significant question that may kill whatever meager administrative savings it hopes to get -- about $900,000 or so.