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New York Times

A Healthy Dose of Misery for Company
What makes a rich life? Chihuahuas have one answer, while two somber plays suggest another.

An Expert in Audacity Tries Arthur Miller
Simon McBurney, the director of the revival of Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons,” talks about commercialism, celebrity and the kinship of Millerian and Aristotelian tragedy.

How Billy Danced His Way Beyond Cinema
Will Americans who already know Billy Elliot on film accept a different version of his story on stage?

Saviors of the American Songbook
In an increasingly noisy world, cabaret artists are quietly keeping the romance alive.

The Independent

Bloodbath on Broadway: The credit crunch hits
As the economic crisis worsens, New York's theatres are finding that the show can't go on. Guy Adams reports

Newsday

Linda Winer: David Mamet is all around Broadway

New York Post

Lawsuit in B'way beatdown
Oscar-nominated actor Terrence Howard allegedly assaulted composer Tex Allen in a backstage beatdown as they worked together on Broadway's "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" last winter...

Star-Ledger

Broadway's 'Billy Elliot' has boys kicking up their heels

Bergen Record

Shanley explores two sides of humanity

The Observer

Spacey sets up a new golden age in theatre landmark
Kevin Spacey talks to Vanessa Thorpe about his rocky start at the Old Vic and his vision for the theatre's future

BroadwayWorld

* An Interview With Robert Emmet Lunney
* Richard Pilbow Wins 2008 Wally Russell Lifetime Achievement Award

The Clyde Fitch Report

David Garrick's Historic Villa Burns

Jewish American Writers Series Announces New Season

Washington Post

Art and Sports, Meeting on a Level Playing Field
Want to kill an art conversation? Talk free-throw percentage. Speaking of season tickets at a gallery opening? Use your inside voice.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Bernstein a quintessential musician of the '50s

Cleveland Plain Dealer

A round of applause for the historic Hanna Theatre's delightful makeover
It's a theater, but it's also a Cleveland landmark. So we sent Plain Dealer architecture critic Steven Litt and theater critic Tony Brown to cover the opening of "Into the Woods," the first musical to play Great Lakes Theater Festival's newly renovated Hanna Theatre in Cleveland's PlayhouseSquare.

Los Angeles Times

'Spring Awakening' as traditional rebel

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