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New York magazine founder Clay Felker dead at 82

Back Stage
Still the River Runs reviewed by A.J. Mell
Florida playwright Barton Bishop's eccentric two-hander suggests such disparate influences as Mark Twain, the Coen Brothers, and even -- heaven forfend -- Weekend at Bernie's.

Variety

Josh Hartnett to star in 'Rain Man'
Stage adaptation bows in London this summer

Bayreuth festival offers opera online
Price for event at a hefty $77

'Imagine This' set for London debut
Musical to bow this fall

Chicago Theaters applaud Clapp
Consultant named interim exec director

Review: All's Well That Ends Well
Some of the shortcomings in the famously problematic "All's Well That Ends Well" -- with its pushy heroine, caddish hero and nasty bed-trick leading to forced marriage -- are addressed in this Old Globe production by exploiting the mystique of Italy, European youth's staging ground for wars both military and romantic. Following in the footsteps of E.M. Forster ...

Review: Hughie/Krapp's Last Tape
After Brian Dennehy's past performances in the works of Eugene O'Neill, no one should be surprised by the persuasive pessimism the actor brings to O'Neill's one-act play "Hughie" at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. But it's Dennehy's even greater triumph in the (for him) hitherto unexplored country of Samuel Beckett that has Canadian critics and audiences cheering his merciless performance in "Krapp's Last Tape."

Review: Funk It Up About Nothin'
Now that Lin-Manuel Miranda has rapped a Tony acceptance speech for "In the Heights," it's probably time to stop talking about how hip-hop has been gradually bubbling into mainstream theater and consider it fully emerged. In fact, hip-hop now forms a sufficient part of the legit culture that a distinction needs to be ...

Bloomberg.com

Banned `Ragtime' Finds New Theater, Fresh Ears to Offend: Jeremy Gerard
Thanks to the proud efforts of a diligent public executive, only about 200 people a night will get to see ``Ragtime'' this summer in Wilmette, Illinois, a suburb north of Chicago

Financial Times

Prisoner of the Crown, Irish Repertory Company, New York
This could be the stuff of black comedy, and the Irish Rep production, with its speedy costume changes and its actors wearing many hats, sometimes borders on slapstick, writes Brendan Lemon