You Never Forget That Star-Struck Encounter With Your Idol
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 . . .
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
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
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
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
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?
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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'You Can't Take it With You' Revival Off for Fall
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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N.E.A. Gives Grants to Five Theaters for New Plays
The grants, for $20,000 each, will go theaters in Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Washington and Princeton, N.J.
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Tony Awards Eligibility Calendar Has Broadway Worried
Tonys eligibility cutoff date is uncertain, leading to worries on Broadway
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Theater Listings: Aug. 27 — Sept. 2
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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’
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?
How do you think we should measure success in the theater? What exactly is a hit?
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Surprise of a Salesman: Christopher Lloyd
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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Sometimes There Are Second Acts in Broadway Casting
Sometimes replacement casts in Broadway shows are an improvement over the originals.
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On the London Stage: Playing Sondheim in the Woods
The new Open Air Theatre production of “Into the Woods,” the 1987 Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine musical about fairy tales refracted, is taking place in the aptly leafy setting of Regent’s Park.
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