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Theater Review 'Stunning': A Syrian Jew in Brooklyn, Not at Home in the World
David Adjmi’s play is a stinging portrait of an insular Syrian Jewish community in contemporary Brooklyn.

Theater Review 'Shafrika, the White Girl': Mom, Dad and a Rainbow 10: Life on the Inside
There are a number of things to admire in Anika Larsen’s autobiographical musical. But the show never quite shakes its self-congratulatory feel.

Theater Review 'Heart of the City': Looking for Love, and Life, Within the Urban Bustle
The plots are not the drawing point of Eric Lane’s agreeable play about assorted New Yorkers

Arts, Briefly: Another Rock Musical, but No Oldies This Time
The original musical “Memphis” will open on Broadway at the Shubert Theater on Oct. 19.

Arts Briefly: Footnotes
The Off Broadway fall lineup will include “The Deep Throat Sex Scandal,” a new play by David Bertolino. Performances will begin on Sept. 14 at the Ha! Theater on West 46th Street. ... St. Ann’s Warehouse, the Brooklyn performance space, will celebrate its 30th anniversary season by again hosting the Druid Theater Company of Galway, Ireland. The troupe’s “New Electric Ballroom,” ... Having left the television series “Grey’s Anatomy,” the actor T. R. Knight is turning to the stage. He will play Leo Frank in a revival of the musical “Parade” at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Preview performances begin Sept. 25. ... To celebrate the release of the new cast recording of “Hair,” the show will host a “be-in” onstage at the Al Hirschfeld Theater following the 7 p.m. performance on Tuesday.

New York Times ArtsBeat Blog

Postcard From London: Sound On Stage and Off
Aural experiences during "Duet for One" and "Waiting for Godot" in London.

New York Post

Joni, but not phony
For the past decade or so, Joni Mitchell tunes have graced Feinstein's and the Oak Room. When uptown cabaret canaries stray from the Great American Songbook, they often turn to the loon from Saskatoon: She's a little folk, a little soft-rock, a little jazz -- classy! Even better, she's wordy and a tad weird. But while other singers...

New York Post Theater Blog

The Trouble with "Stunning"
The mixed reviews that have welcomed David Adjmi's "Stunning" are troubling me. If you look at the handy Critic-o-Meter, you'll see that I'm the local critic who liked this production the best. Most of my colleagues have problems with the play being unrealistic, an issue enhanced by Anne Kauffman's decidedly stylized production.

New York Magazine

Her Enchanted Evenings
Anne Hathaway is both theater nerd and Hollywood starlet, do-gooder and glamour-seeker. And this summer, in Central Park, she is also both boy and girl.

Exit the Party King
After winning a Tony for Best Actor, Geoffrey Rush partied until the sun came up.

Drama-Free
This year’s Tonys broadcast was hurt by a lack of suspense.

* Ashanti, Off to See the Wizard of Shoes

The New Yorker

“Stunning.”
by Hilton Als

Gothamist

Opinionist: machines machines machines machines machines machines machines
If Terminator Salvation's bleak vision of humanity's enslavement by machines has you down, HERE Arts Center is the place to go for an antidote to Hollywood blockbuster dystopia. The machines that fill the stage in machines machines machines machines machines machines machines (which we'll ...

Hartford Courant Behind the Curtain Blog

Get on the Bus -- and See a Show in New Haven
On Saturday, July 11 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. there will be series of live performances on five bus routes in New Haven.

Riz' Blog Review: "Speech & Debate" at Hartford's TheaterWorks