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New York Times

Onstage, Stripped of That Wizardry
No longer a boy hero, a grown-up Daniel Radcliffe is coming to Broadway in the revival of “Equus.”

Back Onstage, Grappling With a Classic Storm
In Mandy Patinkin’s world there are two tempests: Shakespeare’s, in which he stars as Prospero at the Classic Stage Company, and the ever-raging one in his mind.

He’s Still Talking About His Generation
In two new plays, Michael Weller takes a hard look at the challenges of marriages and the horrors of war.

Associated Press

Cynthia Nixon, Tim Conway among Emmy winners
Cynthia Nixon, who gained fame and an Emmy with ''Sex and the City,'' added a second trophy Saturday for a guest role on ''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.''.

New York Daily News

Daily News Deja Vu: 'All My Sons'
Actress Katie Holmes, who co-stars in the upcoming Broadway revival "All My Sons," may be inexperienced in dramatic theater, but she knows something about ...

From the Daily News Archives: 'All My Sons'
A look at how the New York Daily News covered the 1947 play "All My Sons," and the 1948 movie based on the Arthur Miller classic....

Bergen Record

Non-standard take on Miller's 'All My Sons' intrigues

Broadway TV

Speed The Plow Starts - The Rehearsal
"It's actually quite a challenge as an actor to launch into one of these things," confides Jeremy Piven to[...]

Signature Announces New 'Les Miz' Staging in VA

* Signature's "Black Box" Les Miz Will Put Audience in Middle of the Action; Cast Announced (Playbill)
* Kreeger, Olivera, Stone, Zemon, et al. Cast in Signature's Les Miserables (TheaterMania)

Washington Post

Young and Influential
Meet 16 individuals whose fresh perspectives are reshaping the Washington arts scene.
* The Theater Scene's Young Hopefuls

Philadelphia Inquirer

Arden presents a much more candid 'Candide'
In a paradox that could only happen in the theater, Broadway's most beautiful loser might finally deliver its long-promised brilliance when given exactly the opposite of what it seems to need.

Q&A with ‘Candide’ lyricist Richard Wilbur
Richard Wilbur's place in literary history rests securely on his nine books of classically elegant poems and just about every award a poet can win, including two Pulitzer Prizes and being named poet laureate of the United States. And his story isn't over: At age 87, he's at work on a new book of poems and about to begin a new faculty position at his alma mater, Amherst College.

Miami Herald

D.C. takes its theater seriously
Think about the nation's capital in this run-up to the presidential election, and what comes to mind? Politics, for sure. Famous buildings and monuments, the dramatic grandeur of a city that is both historic and critical to the country's future.
[See ATWClips for links to two videos of the area's current production of 'Ace']

Sarasota Herald Tribune

Asolo Rep benefits as last fall's hit show debuts on Broadway
The $16 million musical "A Tale of Two Cities" took Sarasota by storm last fall, and now its creators hope that the musical telling of the Charles Dickens stories wins an even larger audience on Broadway

Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Lovelorn letters set to music of Elvis Costello
Letters left for Shakespeare's Juliet come to life in show featuring music of Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet.

Orange County Register

In Costa Mesa, 'Straw Hat' has holes
The adaptation of a French farce but loses something in translation.

Orange County Register Theater by Paul Hodgins Blog

SCR loses its literary manager
Megan Monaghan, who was hired by South Coast Repertory in the summer of 2005 to help with new-play development, is leaving the Costa Mesa theater. In mid-October, she will join New York’s Lark Play Development Center as artistic program director. Read more here.

San Diego Union-Tribune

'Xanadu' is on a roll
“Xanadu,” the roller-disco musical coming to La Jolla Playhouse, will get to skate an extra loop or two. The theater has announced that the show, directed by Playhouse artistic director Christopher Ashley, has been extended to Dec. 31.

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