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Tickets still available for Free Night of Theater 2009

by Maria Christensen

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Hurry over NOW to the Live Theatre Week website to reserve free tickets to plays and shows all over Puget Sound before they’re all gone. Presented by Theatre Puget Sound and powered by Seattle Performs.com, Live Theatre Week takes place the third week of October every year and showcases some of the best performances local [...]

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“Silent Bob” Speaks – Kevin Smith comes to The Fillmore

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Writer/actor/director Kevin Smith is coming to Denver’s Fillmore Auditorium this November. However, it isn’t going to be your typical comedic stage performance.
Famous for an extensive list of credits including such titles as “Clerks” and “Mallrats“, Kevin Smith will be speaking WITH fans instead of speaking TO them, in what is being referred to as more [...]

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Off Broadway hits for just $20, September 8 to September 20, 2009

by Jonathan Mandell

More than twenty Off-Broadway shows will be available for just $20 (at least a third of the usual ticket prices) — and see seven of the shows within those two weeks, and get a voucher for dinner for two for free at one of six restaurants.
For details go to 20at20 (20@20) or call toll-free 1-877-4-20at20 [...]

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Fringe Finale, But Fear Not — Fringe Encore, September 10th to September 27th

by Jonathan Mandell

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The 13th annual New York International Fringe Festival is ending on Sunday, August 30th. Perhaps, like me, you’ve seen some of the shows. (I focused on Fringe food shows). Perhaps you’ve seen none. It’s unlikely you’ve seen all 201.
You have a chance at a [...]

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FringeNYC, New York International Fringe Festival 2009 August 14th to August 30th. How to choose what to see.

by Jonathan Mandell

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The New York International Fringe Festival ,FringeNYC, bills itself as the largest theater festival in North America, with more than 200 companies performing for 16 days in more than 20 venues. How to choose what to see?
I have attended the fringe festival from the very first one 12 years ago – a highlight: a [...]

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Philly Fringe – A Look at the 2009 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival

by Bill Meagher

The Philadelphia Lives Arts Festival and the Philly Fringe are taking over Philadelphia yet again this September. The two festivals run simultaneously creating a city that burts with boundry-pushing performances and wild creativity.
The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival will present fifteen of the worlds best and most cutting-edge performing arts companies. Meanwhile Philly Fringe promises to [...]

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Last Chance To See August: Osage County on Broadway, First Chance on National Tour

by Jonathan Mandell

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Question: When do alcoholism, addiction, divorce, disappearance, suicide, incest, child abuse, child molestation and early death make for family entertainment?
The answer is August: Osage County by Tracy Letts. Family entertainment because it’s about a (I hope) fictional family, the disturbed and disturbing Weston family of Oklahoma, and the play was called “sensationally entertaining” by the [...]

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An Evening of Jerome Robbins on Broadway…in Weehawken

by Jonathan Mandell

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Fans know choreographer and director Jerome Robbins for creating “West Side Story” and “On The Town” and nurturing such landmark Broadway shows as “The King and I,” “Fiddler on the Roof,” and “Gypsy.” What they don’t know is he grew up in Weehawken, N. J. The town knows though, which is why “An Evening of [...]

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“Our Town” vs. MySpace

by Jonathan Mandell

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“Our Town” takes place at the beginning of the twentieth century; MySpace was founded at the beginning of the twenty-first. Both had their base in high school, and are now seen as past their prime; both are said to reveal something about America. Have we gone from our town to my space, as individuals and [...]

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Soho Playhouse Summer Solo Series – Adam Rapp, Bukowski, Spalding Gray, etc.

by Jonathan Mandell

Soho Playhouse is presenting a series of 13 solo shows, each for one night only, from June 18th to August 4th in the performance art/monologuist tradition of Spalding Grey, whose own words are being read on July 16th. Most of these were hits when first performed. Here is the schedule:
Thursday, June 18
Mother Load
Written and performed [...]

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Last Chance To See “Reasons To Be Pretty”

by Jonathan Mandell

The first fall-out from the Tony Awards comes with the announcement that Neil LaBute’s “Reasons To Be Pretty” which was nominated for three Tony’s but did not win any, will play its final performance this Sunday, June 14th after 106 performances on Broadway.
This play is worth seeing for the amazing (Tony-nominated) performances of Thomas Sadoski [...]

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2009 Tony Award Winners

by Jonathan Mandell

A reminder of how you can get tickets to these and other shows for cheap or even for free.
BEST MUSICAL
*Billy Elliott
BEST LEADING ACTOR(S) In A MUSICAL
*David Alvarez, Kiril Kulish, and Trent Kowalik, Billy Elliott
BEST LEADING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
*Alice Ripley, Next To Normal
BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL:
* Hair
BEST PLAY
* God of Carnage
BEST REVIVAL OF A [...]

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Following The Tony Awards tonight

by Jonathan Mandell

They’re on TV starting at 8 p.m. (See ballot below)
They’re on the Web, um, now — including live breathless Tweets from Mark Indelicato (who I thought only plays) a Broadway-obsessed kid (on “Ugly Betty”). His latest post: “JILL ZARIN!!! My life is complete!!”
And for those of us who live in New York City, there’s also [...]

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Anne Hathaway Stars In Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night In Central Park, New York Public Theater’s Shakespeare In The Park, Free From June 10th to July 12th

by Jonathan Mandell

“If music be the food of love, play on,” Shakespeare begins “Twelfth Night, or What You Will,” presented for free in Central Park from Wednesday, June 5th to Sunday, July 12th, starring Academy Award nominee Anne Hathaway. There are two ways to get your free tickets, as the Public Theater explains.
Tickets are distributed on [...]

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Getting tickets to Broadway for cheap or for free

by Jonathan Mandell

With the Tony Awards on June 7th bringing its annual national attention to the dozens of offerings on Broadway, it’s a good time to explain how in-the-know theatergoers get cheap, discounted or even virtually free tickets to New York shows that at full price could be $100 (depending on the show, the seat location, the [...]

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