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The Playgoer

The New Musicals
From Stephen Holden's expert musical analysis--and appreciation--of a slew of new cast albums now being released of musicals both new ....

All Good Things Must Come to an End...
...and so must the reign of Max & Laura, the TV-anointed stars of the current Broadway product known as Grease.

Headlines
Some assorted theatrical news from around the web...

My Night With Daisey

Warning: Naked People

Jeune Lune (1978-2008)

Clyde Fitch Report

New Podcast: Tim Errickson
A new episode of The Leonard Jacobs Show can be downloaded for your podcastable delectation. Tim and I chatted about lots of stuff -- Boomerang Theatre Company, the Dish, even the much-missed Zach Mannheimer, crazy guy that he is/was.

Theatre de la Jeune Lune to Close

Arts Advocacy Update XLVII

Historic Photos of Broadway on YouTube!

Provincetown Playhouse to Stay Up, All Else Will Come Down; NYU's Alicia Hurley Proposes Stirring Cauldron in Celebration

The League of Indepedent Theater is Official

nytheatre Mike

Entertainment Weekly Names “The New Classics”

The Wicked Stage Blog

Stage Prescience
Happened to catch Hairspray again today--still pretty much a perfect entertainment (sorry, Michael), even with George Wendt amiably shrugging his way through as Edna--and was struck by this exchange: ....

Distinctly Heard Jew
There are few critics who could pull this off: reviewing not only the play at hand but reporting on the audience. But when the play is Adam Baum and the Jew Movie, and the asides of the director, Paul Mazursky.....

Superfluities Redux

Potomac Theatre Project
A unique opportunity to see two of the most noteworthy British plays of the past quarter-century begins next week when the Potomac Theatre Project visits New York's Atlantic Stage 2 for its annual repertory season.

Organum: Tragedy, Style and the Inarticulate
June 2008 issue of Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics, which is online now, features new translations of the poetry of Michelangelo by Mark Daniel Cohen as well as several other elegant essays and reviews.