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Associated Press

Jeremy Irons returns to Broadway in spring 2009
Jeremy Irons will return to Broadway for the first time in 25 years, co-starring with Joan Allen in ''Impressionism.''.

Variety

Irons, Allen set for 'Impressionism'
Duo to star in Jacobs' Broadway production

Summer heats up Broadway B.O.
'Legally Blonde' gets bump from reality show

Tonys to include 11 musical tunes
Move allows perfs from 'Mermaid,' 'Frankenstein'

'Mamma Mia' tunes up for Hamptons
Meryl Streep to sing ABBA at charity event

David Mamet's 'November' closing
Play ending Broadway stint after 205 perfs

'Catered Affair' adding matinee show
Musical playing to 95% capacity during the day

Estelle Parsons joins 'Osage County'
Actress replaces Deanna Dunagan

Review: Three on a Couch
Physician, please don't heal thyself. Thesp Brad Frazier's wide-eyed, neurotic psychologist saves the day in scientist-cum-playwright Carl Djerassi's confused noir pastiche "Three on a Couch," a short, intermittently sharp comedy ...

Review: Finally
Four lives pivot off a pair of violent episodes in "Finally," Stephen Belber's intense, "Rashomon"-inspired one-hander receiving its West Coast premiere eight years after it debuted. Morlan Higgins, celebrated for his work in two recent Athol Fugard plays, gives a mesmerizing portrayal of all four characters, gliding convincingly between gender, age and even species.

Review: Little Shop of Horrors
The Paper Mill Playhouse production of the 1982 tuner boasts the kind of tacky grandeur that once flourished in amusement park spook houses...An audience populated with teens ate it up on opening night, demonstrating the musical's appetizing durability.

Review: Point Break Live!
For those who say that skydiving and surfing can't be portrayed on a small stage, or that the acting talents of Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze could never be adequately recaptured, "Point Break Live!" has arrived to prove them wrong. A parody/celebration of the 1992 action film, this show glories in cheesy dialogue....

Review: The Mikado
A Gilbertian conundrum: what's more distressing than a G&S comic operetta with a mirthless comedian holding up its center? A G&S comic operetta with two mirthless comedians -- which is exactly what we get in the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players' underwhelming production of "The Mikado."

Wall Street Journal

A Novice Only to Broadway
Mark Rylance may not be known by American audiences but hopes that will change with his performance in "Boeing-Boeing."