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09/03/2010 11:00 PM
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Theater Review | 'Vision Disturbance': Seeing in Just 2 Dimensions as Her Marriage Breaks Up
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In Christina Masciotti’s “Vision Disturbance,” a Greek-born woman experiences a strange eye disorder while going through a divorce.

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09/03/2010 12:14 AM
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Theater Review | 'It Must Be Him': Has-Been Writer Hopes to Break Out of a Slump
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In “It Must Be Him,” a comedy by Kenny Solms, Peter Scolari plays a television writer who’s trying to revive his career.

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09/03/2010 01:00 AM
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Urban Athlete: Chorus-Line Calisthenics
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For beginning hoofers or advanced, Broadway dance routines can be an alternative to the gym.

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09/02/2010 01:00 AM
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You Never Forget That Star-Struck Encounter With Your Idol
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Actors recall how long-ago backstage encounters with their idols changed their lives.

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09/02/2010 08:51 AM
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Theater Talkback: Just When You Think You Know Somebody . . .
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Sometimes performers make you see familiar characters in new ways.

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09/02/2010 01:50 AM
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After a Cameo on Cable, Jets Hit the Stage
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The Jets took in an early private performance of the show “Black Angels Over Tuskegee” on Wednesday in Manhattan.

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09/01/2010 12:30 AM
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Theater Review | 'Troilus and Cressida': The Cynical Side of Shakespeare, but With a River View
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At the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, a “Troilus and Cressida” that doesn’t shortchange the title characters.

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08/31/2010 12:30 AM
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Nonprofit Theaters Take On Bold Broadway Ventures This Fall
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The Public Theater and Lincoln Center Theater, both nonprofits, are undertaking financially ambitious productions for the 2010-11 Broadway season.

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08/31/2010 11:53 AM
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Theater Review | 'An Error of the Moon': Redrawing a Picture of Lincoln’s Assassin
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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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09/03/2010 12:51 PM
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Brendan Fraser to Make Broadway Debut in 'Elling'
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Mr. Fraser and Denis O'Hare are set to play a mismatched pair of roommates navigating the shoals of friendship, work, and women

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09/03/2010 09:29 AM
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'Yank!' Won't Reach Broadway This Season
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The musical, about two World War II G.I.'s whose friendship turns into romance, has been delayed until the fall of 2011.

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09/02/2010 02:58 PM
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'You Can't Take it With You' Revival Off for Fall
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Producer Elizabeth I. McCann, who had announced she would mount the show in November, said on Thursday that she is now aiming for a spring opening.

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09/03/2010 01:30 AM
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Theater Listings: Sept. 3 — 9
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Selective listings by theater critics of The New York Times of noteworthy shows in New York.

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09/02/2010 07:04 PM
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Theater Review | 'Hedda Gabler': An Audience Visits With Hedda Gabler at Home, a Real Home
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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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08/30/2010 12:05 PM
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Theater Review | 'All-American Girls': The Big Game Is Coming, but Where’s the Coach?
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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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08/27/2010 12:00 AM
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Theater Review | 'The Memory Show': Forgetting of Things Past: A Duet Off-Key
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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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09/04/2010 02:40 AM
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George Hitchcock, Kayak Magazine Founder, Dies at 96
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Mr. Hitchcock, a playwright and poet himself, included a wide variety of poets and writers in his literary magazine.

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08/27/2010 10:45 PM
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A Temple of Drama, Burnished
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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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09/02/2010 03:30 AM
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‘Red’ Hot and Staying Cool
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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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08/30/2010 01:30 AM
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Arts, Briefly: Theatrical Spills and Award Thrills
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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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08/28/2010 01:00 AM
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Keeping You Entertained (and on Your Toes)
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Several shows at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, including “Roadkill” and “Sub Rosa,” tinker with the traditional audience construct.

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08/29/2010 11:38 AM
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Arts | New Jersey: ‘Where Broadway Comes Home to Sleep’
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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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08/26/2010 04:14 AM
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Surprise of a Salesman: Christopher Lloyd
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Mr. Lloyd brings his “Taxi” and “Back to the Future” sensibility to Arthur Miller’s liked-but-not-well-liked everyman, in Weston, Vt.

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