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‘Speed-the-Plow’ Files Grievance Over Star’s Quick Departure

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‘Speed-the-Plow’ Files Grievance Over Star’s Quick Departure

By PATRICK HEALY

The Broadway producers of the David Mamet play “Speed-the-Plow” filed a grievance on Friday against their former star Jeremy Piven.

Young TV Actor Takes Valuable Lessons Onstage

By PATRICK HEALY

Hunter Parrish, an actor on Showtime’s “Weeds,” says his onstage stint in “Spring Awakening” gave him a set of skills that his comfort zone, television, had not.

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Compiled by JULIE BLOOM

Kelli O’Hara will take a leave of absence from the Lincoln Center Theater revival of “South Pacific” in March, Playbill.com reported.

Theater Review | 'The Cherry Orchard'

All Alone in a Crowded Country Home

By BEN BRANTLEY

It feels right that the proportions are all wrong in Sam Mendes’s seriously comic production of “The Cherry Orchard.”

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Theater Review | 'Soul of Shaolin'

Duck! These Monks Have Feet and Fists of Fury

By CHARLES ISHERWOOD

“Soul of Shaolin,” a Chinese martial-arts pageant, ultimately seems a pretty cheap enterprise.

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Music Review | American Songbook

Madcap Cole Porter Classics to Pour Martinis By

By STEPHEN HOLDEN

The sight of Victoria Clark and David Hyde Pierce portraying 1930s Manhattan socialites came with a frisson of anxiety.

Where Ballet Is a Boy Thing

By PATRICK HEALY

Let us pause for a moment to praise the Sisterhood of the Tumbling Tutus, which is seriously upping the charm quotient of the Broadway musical “Billy Elliot.”

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Channeling Noël Coward

By JULIE BLOOM

Real-life psychics and mediums are invited to audition for a chance to work with the cast of the coming Broadway production of “Blithe Spirit.”

Ricardo Montalbán, Star of ‘Fantasy Island,’ Dies at 88

By CLAIRE DEDERER and BRUCE WEBER

Mr. Montalbán, one of Hollywood’s first Latino leading men, had a long career as a television and movie actor but is perhaps best remembered as the debonair concierge of “Fantasy Island.”

Theater Reviews | Under the Radar Festival

In Festival, Biography, Beckett and Blues

By BEN BRANTLEY and JASON ZINOMAN

Reviews of shows at the Under the Radar Festival, including “County of Kings,” “England,” “First Love” and others.

Theater Review | 'Yanagai! Yanagai!'

Tales of Tribal Land and Courtroom Drama

By NEIL GENZLINGER

This unconventional play about an indigenous Australian people may ask a little too much of an American audience.

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Recalling Rodgers, Along With His Friends

By STEPHEN HOLDEN

The usual buzz of happy expectation that attends the 92nd Street Y’s venerable Lyrics and Lyricists series was noticeably muted at this season’s opening concert.

Theater Review | 'The Shipment'

$Off-Center Refractions of African-American Worlds$

Off-Center Refractions of African-American Worlds

By CHARLES ISHERWOOD

Cultural images of black America are tweaked, pulled and twisted like Silly Putty in “The Shipment,” a subversive, seriously funny new theater piece by Young Jean Lee.