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• FIERSTEIN FIRES BACK

  L.A. CRITIC'S PAN IRKS ACTOR

  October 5, 2007 - AS a rule, theater peo ple tend to take their lumps from critics in silence. What's there to do, once you've been caned, but slink off into a dark corner and lick your lacerations? But...more >

• RETURN OF 'GYPSY'

  LUPONE & CO. MULL BRINGING BACK REVIVAL

  October 3, 2007 - IF you missed director Arthur Lau rents' thrilling revival of "Gypsy" at City Center this past summer (and if you did, you should still be kicking yourself), all may not be lost...more >

• SOME LIGHT LAB WORK

  NO MAJOR FIXES FOR BROOKS' NEW SHOW

  September 28, 2007 - HERE'S some hit-and-run gossip on four new musicals: * "Young Franken stein": Mel Brooks' $20 million Transylvanian import went back into rehearsals last week, pretty much...more >

• 'BEAST' HECKLED

  E-BLITZ TARGETS SEX-RAP ACTOR

  September 21, 2007 - James Barbour, the “Beauty and the Beast” star who has been charged with having sex with a 15-year-old girl, is under attack from an anonymous e-mailer who is trying to get him fired from the new...more >

• QUAID'S CRUSADE

  STAR'S WIFE TURNS 'MERRY' TO MISERABLE

  September 19, 2007 - 'LONE Star Love," the Broadway-bound musical starring Randy Quaid and the Red Clay Ram blers, is a jolly retelling of "The Merry Wives of Windsor" set in the Wild West. But take a...more >

• STAGE IS SET FOR LOCKOUT

  September 14, 2007 - ONE week ago today, the League of American Theaters and Producers sent out a flurry of e-mails admon ishing the theater industry not to speak to the press about the negoti ations with the stagehands...more >

• STAGE FRIGHTENED

  37 ARTS FACES LIENS OF UP TO $20 MILLION

  September 12, 2007 - A state-of-the-art off-Broadway theater owned and operated by two of Broadway's top producers is riddled with debt and faces possible foreclosure and bankruptcy, The Post has learned. The...more >

• IT'S ALL ABOUT RIGG

  DAME'S GRAND IN OLD VIC'S 'MOTHER'

  September 7, 2007 - THE day before she opened in the Lon don stage version of the movie "All About My Mother," the great Diana Rigg told the BBC: "Good or bad, applauded or booed - it's not going to...more >

• I 'BLONDE' MY MTV

  B'WAY MUSICAL MARCHES TO CABLE

  September 5, 2007 - HERE'S an unexpected partnership: MTV, whose core audience attends high school, and Broadway, whose core audience attends high-school reunions. MTV has struck a deal with the producers of "...;more >

• MOUSE OF BLUES

  SINKING 'MERMAID' MAY MARK END OF DISNEY'S GREAT WHITE RUN

  August 31, 2007 - ON the heels of the fiasco that was "Tarzan" and the lumbering bore that is "Mary Poppins" comes Disney Theatrical's latest stage cartoon, "The Little Mermaid" -...more >