You Never Forget That Star-Struck Encounter With Your Idol
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document.write('Thu, 2 Sep 2010 1:00:04 EDT
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document.write('Actors recall how long-ago backstage encounters with their idols changed their lives. ');
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Theater Talkback: Just When You Think You Know Somebody . . .
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document.write('Thu, 2 Sep 2010 8:51:25 EDT
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document.write('Sometimes performers make you see familiar characters in new ways. ');
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Theater Review | \'Troilus and Cressida\': The Cynical Side of Shakespeare, but With a River View
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document.write('Wed, 1 Sep 2010 0:30:47 EDT
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document.write('At the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, a “Troilus and Cressida” that doesn’t shortchange the title characters. ');
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Nonprofit Theaters Take On Bold Broadway Ventures This Fall
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document.write('Tue, 31 Aug 2010 0:30:19 EDT
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document.write('The Public Theater and Lincoln Center Theater, both nonprofits, are undertaking financially ambitious productions for the 2010-11 Broadway season. ');
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Theater Review | \'An Error of the Moon\': Redrawing a Picture of Lincoln’s Assassin
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document.write('Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:53:39 EDT
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document.write('In Luigi Creatore’s “Error of the Moon,” the jealous Edwin Booth is partly responsible for John Wilkes Booth’s assassination of Lincoln. ');
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Theater Review | \'Hedda Gabler\': An Audience Visits With Hedda Gabler at Home, a Real Home
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document.write('Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:51:31 EDT
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document.write('A site-specific production of Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler” is performed for an audience of two dozen in an East Village town house. ');
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Theater Review | \'All-American Girls\': The Big Game Is Coming, but Where’s the Coach?
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document.write('Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:05:40 EDT
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document.write('Layon Gray’s play “All-American Girls” puts together an all-black female baseball team during World War II for a whodunit. ');
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Tony Awards Eligibility Calendar Has Broadway Worried
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document.write('Thu, 2 Sep 2010 10:24:35 EDT
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document.write('Tonys eligibility cutoff date is uncertain, leading to worries on Broadway ');
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\'Love Never Dies\' Looking Less Likely for Broadway This Season
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document.write('Wed, 1 Sep 2010 8:43:32 EDT
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document.write('It looks increasingly like Andrew Lloyd Webber\'s musical sequel to \"The Phantom of the Opera\" will not be coming to Broadway in the spring of 2011 as planned. ');
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Late-Summer Slump Hits Broadway
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document.write('Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:34:34 EDT
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document.write('Late summer Broadway box office earnings are down, especially at \"The Addams Family\" with Nathan Lane on vacation. ');
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Theater Listings: Aug. 27 — Sept. 2
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document.write('Fri, 27 Aug 2010 1:01:20 EDT
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document.write('Selective listings by critics of The New York Times of noteworthy theater events. ');
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Theater Review | \'The Memory Show\': Forgetting of Things Past: A Duet Off-Key
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document.write('Fri, 27 Aug 2010 0:00:13 EDT
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document.write('In “The Memory Show,” the young composer Zach Redler has written a score that follows the patterns of minds grasping, often in vain, for clarity, conviction and lost time. ');
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Theater Review | \'Den of Thieves\': Imperfect Crime, Indelicate Outcome
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document.write('Thu, 26 Aug 2010 0:01:20 EDT
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document.write('In a revival of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s dark comedy “Den of Thieves,” stealing from mobsters leads to its own moral dilemma. ');
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Theater Review | \'A Delicate Balance\': Voices Pitched to a Fine-Tuned Hollow Sound
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document.write('Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:19:06 EDT
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document.write('A select company of actors at the Berkshire Theater Festival is very much savoring Edward Albee’s words in a first-class revival of “A Delicate Balance.” ');
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A Temple of Drama, Burnished
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document.write('Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:45:08 EDT
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document.write('The Belasco Theater, a Broadway house known for its relative intimacy and its subtly gothic ambience, has been restored to its original grandeur. ');
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‘Red’ Hot and Staying Cool
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document.write('Thu, 2 Sep 2010 3:30:32 EDT
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document.write('The much-praised London theater company Donmar Warehouse, despite the success of its “Red” on Broadway, does not plan to transfer plays willy-nilly to New York. ');
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Arts, Briefly: Theatrical Spills and Award Thrills
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document.write('Mon, 30 Aug 2010 1:30:46 EDT
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document.write('Brooke Shields broke her hand during rehearsals for a show in Los Angeles; the first Horton Foote Prize for playwrights has been awarded for two plays. ');
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Keeping You Entertained (and on Your Toes)
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document.write('Sat, 28 Aug 2010 1:00:03 EDT
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document.write('Several shows at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, including “Roadkill” and “Sub Rosa,” tinker with the traditional audience construct. ');
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Arts | New Jersey: ‘Where Broadway Comes Home to Sleep’
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document.write('Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:38:24 EDT
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document.write('Members of Midtown Direct Rep at the South Orange arts center include, at right, Sandy Rustin and Jeremy Dobrish, artistic directors.Show-business people who commute from Manhattan to South Orange and Maplewood have banded together to form a theater company called Midtown Direct Rep. ');
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Theater Talkback: How Do You Measure a Hit?
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document.write('Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:02:25 EDT
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document.write('How do you think we should measure success in the theater? What exactly is a hit? ');
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