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Left Out Detail... by The Hot Blog

I am a big fan of August: Osage County, Tracy Letts' brilliant play of modern southern (Southern Oklahoma, in this case) family strife and scab-shredding healing. It is hard to imagine the money role of the mother getting past Jane Fonda. I'll...
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Great Night / Great Cause by The Hot Blog

I am a big fan of Phillip Seymour Hoffman, John Ortiz, and John Gould Rubin's LAByrinth Theater Company , but I can't be in NY on Monday night for a very cool annual fundraiser... but maybe you can. There are "rush tickets" available...
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My Tony Picks by The Hot Blog

Bad internet connections and trouble in the air slowed this one down... a lot. The entire list
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Tony Noms by The Hot Blog

The one sore thumb, stand-out, HUGE miss in these nominations? Jackie Hoffman, who should have won the Tony easily for her performance in Xanadu and her sidekick in the show, Mary Testa, in the Featured Actress-Musical category. Maybe they cancelled each...
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Tonys In The Morning by The Hot Blog

The Tony Nominations will be announced tomorrow morning. I have been enjoying the Broadway season without foisting it on the blog. There was always whining about pieces… so your loss. Some of you might want to expand your game. In any case… I have decided...
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LAByrinth Keeping NY Theater Vital by The Hot Blog

Something really great is happening at the LAByrinth Theater Company in New York. We caught up with The Little Flower of East Orange a few weeks ago. This time, it was Philip Seymour Hoffman directing a play by Stephen Adly Guirgus. The duo had successes...
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Mrs Coen & God Come To Broadway... Coo Coo Ca Choo by The Hot Blog

The experience of Odet's The Country Girl, starring Morgan Freeman, Frances McDormand, and Peter Gallagher, and directed by Mike Nichols was interesting. The show is still in previews, though the many lost lines during last night's performance...
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Theater... I Hardly Knew Her - Pt 1 by The Hot Blog

An excellent day of theater in NY yesterday. First, David Mamet's farce, November, about a president facing a losing second-term election and the infusion of last minute hope for... something. The show is a little deceptive for an audience that is...
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Stage Secrets Revealed at the Geffen Playhouse by Variety On the Town

Tawdry tales were told Monday night at the Geffen Playhouse's annual fundraiser "Backstage at the Geffen" in Westwood. Thesp Roma Downey dished on a former inebriated co-star; Julie Andrews recalled the time Rex Harrison accidentally passed...
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Parker Picks Up 'Cell Phone' by Variety On the Town

Starring as the shy heroine of Sarah Ruhl’s Off Broadway play “Dead Man’s Cell Phone,” Mary-Louise Parker gives her latest legit role a distinctive stage presence, complete with mousy voice and fragile walk. They’re typically bold acting choices for the...
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The Best New American Play On Broadway This Year Was Written 109 Years Ago by The Hot Blog

It’s ironic that the two most entertaining new shows on Broadway this year so far are a musical based on a failed movie from 1980 and a straight comedy written in 1898. Both Xanadu and Is He Dead? are original productions. And both are layered with a...
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The Theater Ate My Show! by The Hot Blog

Ever hear someone talk about a theater actor “playing to the back row?” Last night, playing to the back row only reached the front row on Broadway. Almost exactly three months after having visited Mel Brooks’ new musical of an old movie, Young Frankenstein...
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Paul Dano, Off-Broadway by The Hot Blog

Things We Want is the new show from Jonathan Marc Sherman, author of more than a half dozen off-Broadway shows. Having not seen any of the other work, it is hard to put this work into context, other than to say that you can feel from the play that it...
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'Mommie' Lives On by Variety On the Town

It was a herd of leading ladies paying tribute to one of their own. At the Off-Broadway preem of Charles Busch’s "Die Mommie Die!" the opening-night aud at New World Stages was chockablock with legit actresses who had either appeared...
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An 'Overwhelming' opening by Variety On the Town

“We don’t need something else that says, ‘the Tutsis are good, the Hutus are bad,’” said “The Overwhelming” playwright JT Rogers (pictured with his wife) at the Broadway opening on Tuesday. The play, which follows a family of naïve Americans...
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