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Thursday, May 23, 2013

ArtsBeat: Lea Michele of 'Glee' Lands Book Deal for 'Brunette Ambition' by Dave Itzkoff

Ms. Michele, who plays the overachieving Rachel Berry on "Glee," will write a book called "Brunette Ambition," which is described as being "part memoir, part how-to and part style-guide."&nb…

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Carol Burnett to Receive Mark Twain Prize for Humor by Dave Itzkoff

Carol Burnett, who starred for 11 years on her CBS variety series "The Carol Burnett Show," will receive the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, an award that has previousl…

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

ArtsBeat: Billy Crystal Bringing '700 Sundays' Back to Broadway by Dave Itzkoff

Mr. Crystal's autobiographical one-man show about growing up on Long Island was a box-office hit and a Tony Award-winner when it was first presented on Broadway in 2004 and 2005.  …

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Thursday, May 9, 2013

ArtsBeat: Neil Patrick Harris to Host Tony Awards for a Fourth Time by Dave Itzkoff

Mr. Harris, a star of the CBS comedy "How I Met Your Mother," first hosted the Tonys in 2009 and has won two Emmy Awards for his Tonys work.    

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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

ArtsBeat: Beatles Concert Show 'Let It Be' Coming to Broadway by Dave Itzkoff

"Let It Be," which was created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Fab Four, will begin preview performances at the St. James Theater on July 16, with its opening night scheduled for Ju…

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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

ArtsBeat: Tony Award Nominations: Who Got Snubbed? by Dave Itzkoff

Bette Midler, Fiona Shaw, Alan Cumming and Alec Baldwin were among the high-profile performers who were overlooked when Tony Award nominations were announced on Tuesday morning.  &…

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

DirecTV Orders New Series From Neil LaBute by Dave Itzkoff

Mr. LaBute, the author and filmmaker of provocative works like "In the Company of Men," "The Shape of Things" and "reasons to be pretty," will write a new series called "Full Circle," about …

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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Tribeca Film Festival Creates Prize to Honor Nora Ephron by Dave Itzkoff

The festival will annually award its Nora Ephron Prize to "a woman writer or director with a distinctive voice who embodies the spirit and vision of the legendary filmmaker and writer."

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Thursday, April 11, 2013

ArtsBeat: 'Tuck Everlasting' Can't Find a Parking Spot on Broadway by Dave Itzkoff

The musical's run in Boston has been postponed because, press representatives said, no theater is available for a transfer to New York.    

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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

After an Audience Vote, 'Billy Elliot' Musical Keeps an Anti-Thatcher Song by Dave Itzkoff

Theatergoers attending the West End production of "Billy Elliott the Musical" voted at Monday's performance to retain the song "Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher," whose lyrics refer to celebr…

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Monday, April 8, 2013

ArtsBeat: 'Still,' by Jen Silverman, Wins Yale Play Award by Dave Itzkoff

Jen Silverman will receive $10,000 and the play will have a staged reading at the Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center.

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Thursday, March 28, 2013

ArtsBeat: The Lunatic is On the Air: A Stoppard Radio Play for Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon' by Dave Itzkoff

Tom Stoppard has written a new radio play for the BBC, called "Dark Side," that will mark the 40 years since "The Dark Side of the Moon" was released in March 1973.

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Baz Luhrmann's 'Great Gatsby' Will Open Cannes Film Festival by Dave Itzkoff

Mr. Luhrmann's adaptation of "The Great Gatsby" stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway and Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan.

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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Sam Mendes Says He Won't Direct Next James Bond Movie by Dave Itzkoff

Under the direction of Mr. Mendes, "Skyfall" -- which featured an Academy Award-winning title song performed by Adele and a regrettable title -- sold more than $1.1 billion in tickets worldw…

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Sunday, March 3, 2013

Shirley MacLaine Will Return to 'Downton Abbey,' But Others Are Leaving the Series by Dave Itzkoff

Shirley MacLaine will reprise her role as the outspoken Martha Levinson in Season 4 of "Downton Abbey," and several new characters will join the series. But one more co-star of the PBS/"Mast…

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Monday, February 25, 2013

The Onion Apologizes for Tweet About Quvenzhané Wallis by Dave Itzkoff

"No person should be subjected to such a senseless, humorless comment masquerading as satire," Steve Hannah, the chief executive of The Onion, wrote in an apology to Quvenzhané Wallis, the …

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Williamstown Festival Will Include 'Animal Crackers' and 'Bridges of Madison County' by Dave Itzkoff

This summer, Williamstown Theater Festival will present a revival of "Animal Crackers," the Marx Brothers farce, and a new musical based on "The Bridges of Madison County," the best-selling …

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Thursday, February 21, 2013

ArtsBeat: Ben Foster Will Replace Shia LaBeouf in 'Orphans' by Patrick Healy and Dave Itzkoff

Mr. Foster, who has never done a professional stage play, had auditioned for the part earlier.

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Laura Osnes, Star of 'Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella' by Dave Itzkoff

For Laura Osnes, who has portrayed some of Broadway's best-known ingénue characters and now plays the title role in "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella," niceness is no act.

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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

ArtsBeat: Shia LaBeouf Withdraws From Broadway's 'Orphans' by Dave Itzkoff

Mr. LaBeouf, a star of films like "Transformers," "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" and "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," was to have made his Broadway debut in the play …

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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

ArtsBeat: Westminster's Best in Show Gets a Broadway Show: Banana Joe in 'Drood' For a Night by Dave Itzkoff

Banana Joe, the affenpinscher who was named Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, will appear in Wednesday evening's performance of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood."

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Bill Clinton to Present Film Society's Chaplin Award to Barbra Streisand by Dave Itzkoff

Mr. Clinton, a longtime fan of Ms. Streisand's, will present the Chaplin Award to her at a gala held by the Film Society of Lincoln Center on April 22.

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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

ArtsBeat: 'Comedy of Errors' and Musical 'Love's Labour's Lost' on Shakespeare in the Park's Bill by Dave Itzkoff

Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Hamish Linklater will star in "The Comedy of Errors," while a new musical of "Love's Labour's Lost" will reunite Michael Friedman and Alex Timbers, the team behind "…

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Thursday, February 7, 2013

ArtsBeat: It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's a Dirty Blond: Musical Revival Casts Its 'Superman' by Dave Itzkoff

Edward Watts, who played the dual roles of Robert Semple and David Hutton in the recent Broadway musical "Scandalous," will portray Superman and Clark Kent in the Encores! revival of "It's a…

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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

ArtsBeat: Second Stage Theater Adds 'Nobody Loves You' by Dave Itzkoff

The musical satire about reality television and its shameless contestants is set at a dating competition show also called "Nobody Loves You."

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Monday, January 7, 2013

ArtsBeat: Bette Midler to Play Superagent Sue Mengers on Broadway by Dave Itzkoff

Ms. Midler will star in the one-character play "I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers," about the powerful Hollywood agent whose clients included Barbra Streisand, Steve McQueen, Faye D…

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Thursday, December 27, 2012

ArtsBeat: Broadway to Pay Tribute to Charles Durning and Jack Klugman by Dave Itzkoff

The theaters of Broadway will dim their lights at 8 p.m. on Thursday in honor of Charles Durning, and again at 8 p.m. on Friday in honor of Jack Klugman.

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Monday, December 24, 2012

ArtsBeat: Because You Watched Live Theater: 'The Netflix Plays' Coming to Ars Nova by Dave Itzkoff

As with past programs presented by the Ars Nova Play Group -- see "The Wikipedia Plays," "The Urban Dictionary Plays" and "The Wii Plays" -- "The Netflix Plays" takes inspiration from anothe…

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

ArtsBeat: 'Glengarry' Revival, With Pacino and Cannavale, Recoups on Broadway by Dave Itzkoff

This latest revival of David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross" is the first production of the current Broadway season to recoup its investment.

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'Breakfast at Tiffany's' and 'The Matrix' Among Movies Added to National Film Registry by Dave Itzkoff

Other movies the Library of Congress has chosen to preserve include "Born Yesterday," "Dirty Harry," "A League of Their Own," "A Christmas Story" and "Slacker," citing them as "works of endu…

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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Strange Bedfellows: Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann on 'This Is 40' by Dave Itzkoff

The husband-and-wife team talk about their collaboration on Mr. Apatow's new comedy, "This Is 40," in which Ms. Mann and Paul Rudd reprise their roles as a married couple not unlike Mr. Apat…

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