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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

ArtsBeat: Lauren Ambrose Will Be Fanny Brice in 'Funny Girl' by Patrick Healy

The actress Lauren Ambrose, best known as the rebellious Claire Fisher in the HBO series "Six Feet Under," was not an obvious first choice for the Barbra Streisand role in the Broadway-bound…

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ArtsBeat: Playing on a Bigger Court: 'Lysistrata Jones' Taking Its Game to Broadway by Patrick Healy

"Lysistrata Jones," a musical comedy about sex and college basketball that had a well-received production Off Broadway in the spring, will transfer to Broadway.

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Monday, August 1, 2011

ArtsBeat: Criss to Succeed Radcliffe In 'How to Succeed' by Patrick Healy

Darren Criss has become popular recently on the Fox series "Glee" playing a gay high school student and show choir member who exudes charisma and self-confidence.

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Friday, July 29, 2011

Arts & Leisure: Flops on Broadway? Fix Them Overseas by Patrick Healy

Shows including "Shrek the Musical" and "Legally Blonde" have found success in Europe after bombing on Broadway.

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

ArtsBeat: A Return to Broadway, and a Columnist's Role, for Lithgow by Patrick Healy

John Lithgow will return to Broadway next spring to star in "The Columnist," playing the famous mid-century newspaperman Joseph Alsop in a new drama by David Auburn, who won both the Pulitze…

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Friday, July 22, 2011

ArtsBeat: 'Hair' Encore: Three Same-Sex Marriages by Patrick Healy

The ceremonies will take place Monday night at the St. James Theater.

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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Shanley's Trilogy Finale: The Drama Behind the Drama by Patrick Healy

After the first two parts were presented at the Manhattan Theater Club, the last part will be at Atlantic Theater Company.

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ArtsBeat: Rachel Griffiths Replaces Elizabeth Marvel in 'Other Desert Cities' on Broadway by Patrick Healy

The actress Rachel Griffiths will replace Elizabeth Marvel in Jon Robin Baitz's "Other Desert Cities" when the play moves from Lincoln Center Theater to Broadway.

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ArtsBeat: The Staggering Cost of Broadway by Patrick Healy

Ms. Friedman, echoing many Broadway producers, said virtually every production-related expense was more expensive in New York.

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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

ArtsBeat: Musical by Former 'Daily Show' Head Writer Chosen for Festival in New York by Patrick Healy

James G. Watt, Secretary of the Interior in the Reagan administration, is the subject of the rock musical "Watt?!?"

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Cynthia Nixon to Star in 'Wit' on Broadway by Patrick Healy

Manhattan Theater Club announced on Wednesday that Cynthia Nixon, who won an Emmy as the uptight lawyer Miranda Hobbes on the HBO series, will play Professor Vivian Bearing in the first Broa…

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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

What Goes Best With Drama: Red, White or a Pint? by Patrick Healy

Pub theaters remain a beloved part of the play-making tradition in England, especially London.

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ArtsBeat: Atlantic Theater Company to Offer World Premieres by Patrick Healy

In the lineup: a play based on the Jayson Blair scandal.

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Monday, July 18, 2011

ArtsBeat: A Big Week for Daniel Radcliffe and 'How to Succeed' on Broadway by Patrick Healy

"How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" had its most profitable eight performances last week since beginning in February.

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'Jesus Christ Superstar': From Canada to California to Broadway? by Patrick Healy

The rock opera will move to the La Jolla Playhouse in November, with an eye on Broadway.

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Sunday, July 17, 2011

Illuminating California's Proposition 8 Trial, Onstage by Patrick Healy

A play by the Academy Award winner Dustin Lance Black, called "8," consists mostly of verbatim dialogue and statements from the transcript of the trial over same-sex marriage in California.

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Friday, July 15, 2011

Time-Travel Adventure to Save the Life of Doctor Who by Patrick Healy

Turning children into hands-on heroes of "The Crash of the Elysium" and giving some of them their first taste of theater are among the goals of the Punchdrunk theater troupe.

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ArtsBeat: Downtown Theater To Take a Chance on Celebrated 'Cymbeline' by Patrick Healy

Fiasco Theater's highly inventive production of "Cymbeline," featuring six actors in 14 roles and an imaginative set that relied on just two crates, a sheet, and trunk serving many purposes,…

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Arts & Leisure: Lloyd Webber's Latest Creation: Breathing Space by Patrick Healy

Andrew Lloyd Webber has long been a hands-on theater creator and producer, but lately, after a battle with cancer, he has been more content to let others interpret his work.

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Thursday, July 14, 2011

ArtsBeat: Nathan Lane To Star in 'The Iceman Cometh' in Chicago by Patrick Healy

Mr. Lane will play one of the stage's great dramatic characters, the doomed salesman Theodore "Hickey" Hickman, in the Goodman Theater's revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Iceman Cometh" in sprin…

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Ruling Ends Theater's Bid for Brooklyn Waterfront by PATRICK HEALY

A federal judge decided that approvals given to St. Ann's Warehouse to occupy a site once designated parkland were granted in error.

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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

ArtsBeat: 'Rebecca' to Sing, Manderley to Burn on Broadway by Patrick Healy

A $16 million musical production of "Rebecca," based on the classic 1938 novel by Daphne du Maurier, has been scaled down.

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ArtsBeat: For 'Smash' Writers, 'On a Clear Day' Workshop Is Homework by Patrick Healy

he playwrights Theresa Rebeck, David Marshall Grant, Jacquelyn Reingold, and others working on the upcoming NBC series "Smash" - about the making of a Broadway musical - will do research nex…

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Monday, July 11, 2011

ArtsBeat: Jonathan Groff and Rutina Wesley Named to Cast for "The Submission" by Patrick Healy

The play is scheduled to open in September at the Lucille Lortel Theater.

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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Long Wait for Premiere of Long Play by Ibsen by Patrick Healy

The National Theater in London is presenting Ibsen's "Emperor and Galilean," from 1873, that foreshadowed his more famous works.

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Friday, July 1, 2011

New York Theater Brand Goes West by Patrick Healy

Radar L.A., a Los Angeles festival featuring international theater troupes, was organized by the producer of the Under the Radar festival in New York and partners in Los Angeles.

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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

'Cripple' Finally Comes to Inishmaan by Patrick Healy

The playwright Martin McDonagh and actors from the Druid Theater Company travel to Inishmaan, Ireland, to present "The Cripple of Inishmaan" there for the first time.

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Sunday, June 26, 2011

THE WEEK AHEAD: June 26 - July 2 by PATRICK HEALY

Patrick Healy reports on "SILENCE! The Musical" in this week's Arts & Leisure.

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Friday, June 24, 2011

Shakespeare Troupe Starts Building Brooklyn Theater by Patrick Healy and Kate Taylor

The Theater for a New Audience breaks ground for its own theater in Brooklyn.

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Thursday, June 23, 2011

Life Lessons in 'Normal Heart' by Patrick Healy

The Broadway revival of Larry Kramer's 1985 play "The Normal Heart" draws varied reactions from gay people too young to remember the era in which it is set.

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How the Numbers Add Up (Way Up) for 'Spider-Man' by Kevin Flynn and Patrick Healy

The web is untangling to show how $75 million was spent on "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," more than twice as much as any production in Broadway history.

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