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CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: A Festival Not Resting on Its Laurels by JOHN ROCKWELL

This year's 21st annual installment of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival turned out to be one of the most interesting in years.

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Puccini's Bohemians, All Over Town by ANTHONY TOMMASINI
If you can go to only one of the three productions of "La Bohème" in New York City this weekend, which should you choose?

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'Cabaret,' Soon to Close, Enriched the Theater by BRUCE WEBER
Nobody doesn't like "Cabaret." O.K., that's probably an exaggeration, but unlike a lot of other long-running musicals you can name, nobody resents it. It never became a joke the way "Cats" did. It's not a symbol of corporate theater, as "The Lion King" is. You won't find anyone casting eyes upward in amazement at the taste of the theatergoing public and declaring, "Egads, won't it ever close?" the way they do with "Phantom of the Opera." (Well, I do that, anyway.)
• Slide Show: Gallery of Sallys
But they left out Susan Egan, so why look? :-)

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CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK Only Connect: Sondheim's Intimate Core By BEN BRANTLEY

A stirring revival of "Sunday in the Park With George" has theatergoers lining up to jam into a cramped industrial space in London.

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CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: Sense Memory by Hilton Als

Ariane Mnouchkine's Le ThéÃ¢tre du Soleil.

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Critic's Notebook On London Stages, It's Only Passion 'n' Politics (but They Like It) By BEN BRANTLEY

Tom Stoppard's exciting new play of immutable passions and mutable politics, "Rock 'n' Roll," has become the hottest ticket in London.

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Critic’s Notebook: Cabaret Love Is Busting Out All Over (but Not on TV) by Stephen Holden

October brings the Cabaret Convention and the Broadway Cabaret Festival, related events that peacefully co-exist in a small cultural niche.

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Sometimes 11 votes can add up to '1776' By Don Shirley
The Ovation Awards are intended to tout L.A. theater, yet a little-seen Riverside production walked away with five citations.

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THEATER REVIEW | 'THE NOTEBOOK'

A Puzzling Relationship Gilded by Poetry by ANITA GATES
All the characters in "The Notebook," Wendy Kesselman's smooth, thoughtful, cryptic one-act play, are a pleasure to spend time with.

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A Lofty Debut for a Houston Theater's Renovations by BRUCE WEBER
Capacious, well appointed and unusually situated, the Center for Theater Production is designed to help propel the 55-year-old Alley Theater to the top rank of American regional theaters.

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Critic's Notebook: A deeper meaning off-Broadway

The ambition of 'Gatz' and 'Angels in America,' two of the fall season's hottest events, contrasts with the limited reach of Broadway's commercial fare.Theatrical marathons, those all-day af…

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A Talk Show Is Opera as London Looks West by BEN BRANTLEY
"Jerry Springer: The Opera," which transfers to the West End in October, is the gloriously gaudy touchstone in a London season in which the theater dares to take on its richer, healthier relatives, television and film, and wrestle with them onstage.

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Lean and Hungry Time That Feels Like Today by BRUCE WEBER
Daniel Sullivan's gripping horror movie of a "Julius Caesar" at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego is politically shrewd and relevant.

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80's Play Sharpened, Not Dated, by Time By CARYN JAMES
The exhilarating new Off Broadway production of "Hurlyburly" is shrewd to keep the play where it started: in the cocaine-fueled Hollywood of the 80's.

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How Step Dancing Became the Lord of Irish Feet By JOHN ROCKWELL
The history of dance in Ireland is complex, but thanks to "Riverdance" step dancing is what people think of these days when they think of Irish dance.

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CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: Up Where Theater Is a Summer Breeze By BRUCE WEBER

A weekend in the country. How amusing! as Stephen Sondheim put it. Here in the Berkshires, where it was possible to take in three stage premieres, so it was.

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CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK The Fireworks of Elaine May By CARYN JAMES

The four movies that Elaine May has directed make up a small but unwieldy body of work that is both wonderful and problematic.

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'Naked' festival exposes face of war Mark Blankenship: Critic's Notebook

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Critic's Notebook: Saving their best for the stage? By Wesley Morris

When screen stars limit their 'serious' acting to choice Broadway roles, it's movie fans who lose

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Classic Dramas Simmer in London's Summer Heat by BEN BRANTLEY
The high points of London's new theater season, with glamorous stars in serious classics, turned out to be not exactly the nadirs but rather arid plateaus.

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Critic's Notebook Tony Bennett at 80, Keeping the Flame By STEPHEN HOLDEN

For more than half a century, America's master crooner has remained a rock of integrity in the polluted sea of irony, bad faith and grotesque attitudinizing that pop music has become.

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