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Megan Hilty takes flight in NBC's new series, Monday nights at 10, Eastern and Pacific times; 9, Central time.?Smash,? NBC?s series about backstage Broadway, comes with New York and Hollywood names off screen (Steven Spielberg, Therese Rebeck) and on (Debra Messing and Brian d?Arcy James).
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The nightspot named 54 Below, a 160-seat space, is scheduled to open in early June with a two-week engagement by Patti LuPone.
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One of Broadway?s greatest flops, ?Carrie? is being dressed up, and toned down, for another onstage dance.
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The Prospect Theater Company?s revamped version of Adam Guettel?s ?Myths and Hymns? has the potential to convince theaters everywhere that the piece is viable as a stage property.
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The National College Comedy Festival at Skidmore, next Saturday and Sunday, has become a place for young troupes to flex their muscles outside the glare of the professional arena.
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?Macbeth? is fast-forwarded to 1969, but without much success.
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?These Seven Sicknesses,? a condensed adaptation of Sophocles? seven surviving plays, is being performed at the Flea Theater by its resident acting company, the Bats.
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God save the king, as portrayed by Eddie Redmayne in the Donmar Warehouse's production of "Richard II," because he sure isn't up to saving himself.
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The Broadway theater owner Jordan Roth on Thursday night assured the cast of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Clybourne Park" that the show would open on Broadway in April as planned, despite the departure of two of its lead producers.
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Three short plays by Foote, who died in 2009 at the age 92, will be performed together July 24-Sept. 15 under the direction of Pam MacKinnon ("Clybourne Park").
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Abi Morgan's "Lovesong" is playing at London's Lyric Hammersmith Theater, which is probably the wettest house in town, given all the tears being shed there.
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A selected guide to theater performances in New York, on and off Broadway.
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with Sarah Goldberg and Matthew Rhys, in the Roundabout Theater Company revival at the Laura Pels Theater.In the Roundabout Theater revival of John Osborne?s 1956 landmark play, ?Look Back in Anger,? Matthew Rhys plays the British working-class antihero.
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?Carol Channing: Larger Than Life,? a documentary by Dori Berinstein, chronicles the career of that theatrical clown ?with huge saucer eyes, gigantic red lips and a massive smile.?
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?The Philanderer,? a drawing-room farce by George Bernard Shaw about ?advanced? relationships, is worth seeing, if only because of Shaw?s admission that the cad was something of a self-portrait.
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?Matilda,? the hit musical in London, follows Roald Dahl?s young character as she fights a sadistic headmistress.
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Beyond Broadway, possibilities for dates with a New York sweetheart include love songs, comedies, burlesque and readings in the buff.
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Several current British productions, including ?Lovesong,? ?Travelling Light? and ?The Kreutzer Sonata,? feature characters who recall earlier times.
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The tempest over "Clybourne Park" vividly illustrates how small the universe of the Broadway theater really is.
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Mr. Gazzara?s long acting career included playing Brick in the original ?Cat on a Hot Tin Roof? on Broadway and roles in influential films by John Cassavetes.
