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* Block, Morrison, Boggess, Arcelus and More Go Green July 14 at Birdland
* Klausner, McCarthy, Steggert and Stram Join Pen for Polly's Night Out July 14
* Summer Broadway Festival Kicks Off July 14 with A Night at the Operetta II
* Free Diverse City Theater Readings, with Seldes and Cumpsty, Presented July 14
* Davie, Jue, Lockyer, Page, Reams, Rowat and More Celebrate 90 Years of Muny Magic July 14
* Shepard's Kicking a Dead Horse Opens at the Public July 14
* Woodward and Keefe Offer Arsenic and Old Lace at Westport July 14
* Ninth Annual Midtown International Theatre Festival Begins July 14
* Mauzey, Finley and Tam Battle in NYMF's "Guitar Hero" Tournament July 14

TheaterMania

Peter Filichia's Diary: A Lotta Brains, A Lotta Talent
Sean Hayes in a delight as the devilish Mr. Applegate, Jane Krakowski utterly delicious as his favorite homewrecker Lola, and Cheyenne Jackson is appealing as new baseball great Joe Hardy. Add in a tender-hearted Randy Graff as Meg,...

Lou Liberatore and Bill Timoney to Star in Shadow Lawn's The Odd Couple

Review: The Marriage of Bette and Boo
The Roundabout serves up a well-crafted revival of Christopher Durang's often hilarious play about two dysfunctional families.

Review: The Strangerer
Theater Oobleck presents a dizzyingly funny political work about George W. Bush and John Kerry.

Talkin' Broadway

Review: The Marriage of Bette and Boo
Dysfunction, like so much else in life, is relative. Take Christopher Durang’s piercing comic tearjerker, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, which Roundabout is now presenting in its Off-Broadway Laura Pels Theatre. When the play premiered 23 years ago, its torrential centerpieces of divorce, alcoholism, and stillbirths (four in all) were ideal for vivisection by jokes that made relieving light of things that at first seemed impossibly dark. How better to survive the depths of emotional degradation than by facing them on their own surreal terms? . . .

Review: The Strangerer
Think the Iraq war is absurd? You must know you’re not alone. But would you ever have expected the likes of Jim Lehrer, Senator John Kerry, and - of all people! - President George W. Bush to openly share that view? It’s the odd magic of Mickle Maher’s disturbingly compelling The Strangerer, which just opened at the Barrow Street Theatre following a highly successful run in Chicago, that makes that and more unlikely propositions feel as certain as the sun’s rising tomorrow morning. . . .

nytheatre.com

Review: undergroundzero Festival