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Reuters / Back Stage East

Broadway actors seal deal after contract expires
Actors' Equity Assn. and the Broadway League have agreed to terms for a new contract covering shows on the Great White Way and national tours.

Variety

Actors' Equity strikes tentative deal
Union, Broadway League reach agreement

Execs bow out of Stamford Center
Non-profit org facing red ink for this season

Broadway's 'Urinetown' lawsuit settled
Ohio production accused of plagiarizing

Commissioning program helps trio
Writers win grant from Bank of America

'No Man’s Land' heads to West End
Previews begin Sept. 27 at Duke of York

Spiegelworld returns to N.Y.
Performances run Aug. 6 - Nov. 2

Review: On the Rocks, Hampstead Theatre, London
Writer's block and failed idealism atop the craggy cliffs of Cornwall circa WWI is hardly the obvious stuff of old-fashioned summertime comedy. Amy Rosenthal's new play, "On the Rocks," never quite manages to overcome this disparity between form and content, and is further lumbered by the playwright's apparent thrall to real-life writers D.H. Lawrence and Katherine Mansfield, whose lives she attempts to dramatize.

Wall Street Journal

Capturing the Real Cohan
Rick Benjamin's Paragon Ragtime Orchestra brings out the exceptional tunefulness of George M. Cohan's music.

Back Stage

Second Act
Trezana Beverley won a 1977 Tony Award for her powerhouse performance in for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, but the award's impact wasn't as long-lasting as she might have hoped.

ANMT Gives Crash Course in Creating, Selling Musicals
The Academy for New Musical Theatre held its latest Biz of the Musical Theatre Biz conference June 27-30.

Bill McKinley: Does a Bear Sing in the Woods? reviewed by David Finkle
Does a Bear Sing in the Woods? could be considered a bow to gay pride. As the show stands, however, it could also be considered a blow to gay pride.