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New York Times

Bold Impresario and City Opera Part Ways
The departure of Gerard Mortier came 21 months after New York City Opera had staked its future on his vision.

Newsday

LI kid leaps onto Broadway
Trent Kowalik of Wantagh bounds into New York, where he puts his best feet forward as the star of 'Billy Elliot'
* Video: Elton John and cast members of Billy Elliot perform a number from the musical
* Photos: Billy Elliot the Musical

Wall Street Journal

Enter, Stage Right?
You would be hard-pressed to find a play with a conservative political message, but that's certainly not a bad thing.

Variety

A long and winding 'Road' to N.Y.
It's been a long road for "Road Show." The musical from Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman has taken a tortuous path to its Gotham preem, currently in previews and opening Nov. 18 at Off Broadway's Public Theater.

'Tale of Two Cities' closing Sunday
Dickens adaptation couldn't gain momentum

Playbill

* Shrek the Musical Bounds Its Way Onto Broadway Nov. 8
* Ruined, Nottage's Snapshot of Women in African Civil War, Begins Chicago Run Nov. 8

TheaterMania

Les Is More!
Patti LuPone's landmark 1980 club act finally arrives on CD! Plus: Ute Lemper unveils a striking new recording of her own songs.

* Stomp Out Loud Set to Close in Vegas on January 4
* Tom Lucca to Replace Jerry Dixon in Romantic Poetry, November 18

New York Journal-News

The 'Wicked' process
Author Carol de Giere will be in White Plains on Nov. 12 to sign copies of "Defying Gravity: The Creative Career of Stephen Schwartz from 'Godspell' to 'Wicked,' " her exhaustive book on the Broadway composer-lyricist. She'll be accompanied by Carole Demas, who'll sing songs from the Schwartz canon.

Chicago Tribune

John Leguizamo back on Broadway in the same role he watched Al Pacino perform in the '80s
[Associated Press feature]

Boston Globe

Stages: After a dry spell, a new play about love, scarce resources
Playwright Joyce Van Dyke has reemerged with her new drama "The Oil Thief," which explores the geological rift between lovers amid an unexpected crisis.

Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Shubert Center director stepping down
Kim Motes, a key player in fundraising for the Minneapolis theater project , will join fast-growing Theater Latté Da.

Los Angeles Times

Orange County arts groups affected by shaky economy

The Orange County Register The Arts Blog

South Coast Rep offers “Nothing”

The Times UK

The return of Footsbarn Theatre
After 17 years in exile, the original nomads of the theatre world have returned. Brian Logan catches up with them...

The Guardian

The beautiful and the damned
Proudly melodramatic, sentimental, manipulative - Tennessee Williams's plays are showcases for our wants. No wonder so many movie directors have attempted to conquer them. Wyatt Mason celebrates a dramatist who made film a writer's medium

One million tiny plays about Britain
Craig Taylor's snapshots of life in the UK continue with two young men stand outside a chapel in Bath