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New York Times

Effigies and Aliens Cavort in a Cross-Dressing Wonderland
The chanteuses who play Madison Square Garden have never experienced the imaginative heights of spectacle with which Basil Twist surrounds Joey Arias in “Arias With a Twist.”

Three Lives Inspire the Portrayal of a Complex Artist
Mercedes Ruehl exchanges her jeans for more exotic fashions to portray the sculptor Louise Nevelson in the play “Edward Albee’s Occupant.”

When the American Dream Gets Lost in a Giant Storm
“Miss America” is a freewheeling attack on American foreign policy, beauty pageants, evening news programs and machismo posturing.

Big News! Press Agent Gets Name in Lights
The Biltmore Theater will be rededicated as the Samuel J. Friedman Theater, after the longtime theater and film press agent.

Paper Mill Playhouse Is Bought by Town
The township of Millburn, N.J., has agreed to buy the land and buildings of the Paper Mill Playhouse for $9 million and rent them to the theater.

High-Profile Lineup for Atlantic Theater
The Atlantic Theater Company has announced its 2008-9 season, and look who’s back: John Gallagher Jr., Martin McDonagh and Ethan Coen.

Out of Opera’s Cradle, Hunky Broadway Babies
New revivals of “South Pacific,” “Show Boat” and “Camelot” have taken us back to a time when the worlds of opera and musical theater were fairly closely aligned.

Tales of Summer Heat Along With Thoughts of Cooler Times
Sheera Ben-David, a theatrically savvy performer with a strong, steady voice, places standards side by side in her seasonal cabaret show, “Come Summer,” at the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel.

New York Daily News

'Cry-Baby' set to end Broadway run
"Cry-Baby" has run out of tears. Producers of the struggling musical have posted a closing notice for Sunday, June 22. The show will have played 45 previews and 68 performances.

TKTS, a discount theater tickets booth, to open in Brooklyn
It's soon going to be an even shorter trip from Brooklyn to Broadway. Discounted tickets to Broadway shows will be sold in Brooklyn starting July 10 when the world-famous TKTS Booths opens at MetroTech.

New York Daily News Cultural Tourist Blog

Two Dinnersteins, et al -- A New York Evening

New York Post

Drag Lord
Toward the end of "Arias With a Twist," the new collaboration between drag queen Joey Arias and puppeteer Basil Twist, Arias stomps through a miniature re-creation of the New York City skyline like a cross-dressing King Kong. It's a canny metaphor for his conquering return to the city that made him famous, following a stint of...

B'way goes borough
Another good reason to know Brooklyn better - it's getting a TKTS booth. Starting July 10, you'll be able to buy discount seats...

Medium has no message
It's easy to see what attracted playwright/ author Sallie Bingham to the true-life tale of Helena Blavatsky, the Russian-born...

New York Sun

LaBute's 'Reasons to Be Pretty' Will Move to Broadway

TKTS: BKLYN To Open in July

New York Press

Theater: Phantasmic Voyage
Creative mavericks Joey Arias and Basil Twist collaborate on a glittering, trippy fantasia

Theater: Underground Theater
Revealing all those dirty thoughts (and musical moments) we experience during our daily commute

New York Journal-News

'Cymbeline' hits its marks
Shakespeare threw the kitchen sink of theatrical twists and turns into his "Cymbeline" and on opening night at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, nature did the same thing...

‘Summer’ in full swing
Sheera Ben-David, who this month ends a three-year stint as cantor at Pearl River's Beth Am Temple, brings an eclectic cabaret act to the legendary Oak Room at The Algonquin.

ny1

TKTS Booth To Sell Broadway Tickets In Brooklyn

"Cry Baby" To Close Sunday

Time Out NY

Weird Science by Helen Shaw
Visionary Polish director Grzegorz Jarzyna creates stunning images for Macbeth.

Hamlet reviewed by David Cote
Oskar Eustis directs Michael Stuhlbarg as the melancholy Dane in Central Park. How does he speak the speech?

Marathon 2008 Series C reviewed by David Cote
Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Marathon 2008 limps to a close with a mixed bag of sketches and one-acts.

Single Black Female reviewed by Raven Snook
Lisa B. Thompson’s effervescent series of vignettes and monologues should really be called Single Black Bourgeois Female.

Safe reviewed by Jeff Lewonczyk
Ron Fitzgerald’s takes the parallel-monologue approach to a modern Bonnie and Clyde story.

Oph3lia reviewed by Helen Shaw
For all his whining about being mad north-northwest, Hamlet kept it together; Ophelia had it rough.

A Doll’s House reviewed by Garrett Eisler

Second look A Chorus Line by Adam Feldman

New York Magazine Vulture Blog

Video: The Scene at Last Night’s Public Theater Gala

New York Observer

Albee’s Nevelson Interview Wakes Up in Last 12 Minutes
John Heilpern

Hartford Courant

$1 Million Gift Gives Hartford Stage Major Boost
Hartford Stage is expected to announce today a $1 million pledge toward its new renovation/expansion/endowment project from philanthropists and entrepreneurs George and Laura Estes, The Courant has learned.

Rizzo: Ticker0619
It will be only a single bill of Eugene O'Neill's one-act "Hughie" starring Brian Dennehy at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven this fall.

Hartford Advocate

Cracking Up
Connecticut's improv community flourishes

Broadway Baby
Meet Elaine Stritch, four-time Tony Award winner, in her very own one-woman show, appropriately titled...

Valley Advocate

Our American Tragedy
John Shoptaw and Eric Sawyer present an opera about a fateful night at Ford's Theatre and how it affected our country.

Pope Hope
In 1965, the country was in the midst of a vicious war, had just endured the assassination of its beloved...

New Haven Register

Making a Mix ... International Festival of Arts and Ideas

Star-Ledger

Millburn votes to bail out its ailing theater

Mobile paper-shredding program to visit Scotch Plains

Albany Times-Union

BTF launches 80th season with 'Candida'

WTF's 'Beyond Therapy' gets help from fine cast