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Associated Press

Prepare to shed tears. 'Cry - Baby' closes Sunday
''Cry-Baby'' is the first casualty of the 2008 Tony Awards. It will close Sunday after a disappointing run of 68 performances.

Brooklyn gets discount theater ticket outlet

Reuters

"Hamlet" update lost in Central Park
A "Hamlet" set in a contemporary military government is a reasonable concept. But "Hamlet" needs more than a current idea: It needs well-paced staging and top-flight acting.

Bloomberg.com

Broadway's `Cry-Baby,' No `Hairspray,' to Close Sunday at Loss of Millions
``Cry-Baby,'' a musical based on the John Waters movie of the same name, will close Sunday after 113 performances at Broadway's Marquis Theatre. It probably will have lost its entire $10-million-plus capitalization.

Back Stage

Flying SoloNova by Daniel Lehman
Before the written word, storytellers used myths, legends, history, and imagination to entertain. If you want to see old-fashioned campfire storytelling with some modern twists, the SoloNova Arts Festival is the place.

Life in the LAB by Simi Horowitz
When Rebecca Cohen joined LAByrinth Theater Company in 1997, she was an actor. Today she is a playwright, in part because the company encouraged her to spread her wings.

Sheera Ben-David: Come Summer reviewed by David Finkle
Step right up and see the lady with the huge talent.

Forbidden City West reviewed by Marc Miller
Forbidden City West has plenty to sing about, but its musical voice is curiously, frustratingly muted.

Variety

'Cry-Baby' to close on June 22
Slow sales, unenthusiastic reviews to blame

Atlantic Theater Co. unveils slate
Ethan Coen one-acts, 'Farragut' on schedule

Brooklyn gets a TKTS booth
Discount tickets get new outpost

Festival adds more funnymen
Lineup grows for Just for Laughs

MTC's Biltmore remonikered
Venue to be renamed after Samuel J. Friedman

Michael Greif to direct 'Boys Life'
Second Stage to house Howard Korder play

Millburn buys Paper Mill
City to pay $9 million for buildings, land

Review: Arias With a Twist
...a cracked evening of song, dance and corny jokes, all delivered in the maybe-he's-drunk style of a downtown club.

Review: Vincent River
...Under Steve Marmion's uncompromising direction for the Brits Off Broadway fest, Deborah Findlay and Mark Field stop just short of flaying one another alive to expose the suffering of these characters, bruised raw when we meet them and bleeding freely by the time Ridley is finished with them.

Review: Hot 'n' Cole
...But in "Hot 'n' Cole," premiering at Westport Country Playhouse, there's a nonchalance that is charming and disarming, celebrating the music's self-conscious sophistication while making it as simple and natural as falling in love.