TOUGH STEP FOR 37 ARTS

By MICHAEL RIEDEL
October 19, 2007 - THE money pit into which Mikhail Bar yshnikov and hot shot Broadway pro ducers Kevin McCollum and Jeffrey Seller have tumbled is getting deeper. McCollum and Seller's state-of-the-art off-Broadway theater - 37 Arts, which is also home to Baryshnikov's dance studio and foundation - is being...

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• IN THE MAIN, THE BEST PART PLAINLY IS DANES

  By CLIVE BARNES

  THINK of "My Fair Lady" without the music. Blimey! You could have sighed all night - despite a daz zling Claire Danes as the...more >

• NOT YET ON FIRM FOOTING

  By CLIVE BARNES

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• SPLIT TREATED WITH WIT

  By FRANK SCHECK

  October 18, 2007 -

  LATELY, it's easy to guess how old a playwright is. If the piece is about parents dying, the writer is middle-age. If it's about parents splitting up, the playwright's in his or her 20s...more >

• COST OF CLASS STRUGGLE

  By MICHAEL RIEDEL

  October 17, 2007 -

  FINANCIAL papers for the upcoming Broadway musical "Billy Elliot" are making the rounds of investors. This certainly is one expensive dance class. The musical, which will open in...more >

• YOU MAY LIKE THIS PLAY BUT WON'T LOVE IT TO DEATH

  By FRANK SCHECK

  October 17, 2007 -

  AFTER "Tony n' Tina's Wed ding," "Bernie's Bar Mitz vah," "Grandma Sylvia's Funeral" and others, I've attended more interactive theatrical functions...more >

• CITY CAN HANDEL IT WELL

  By CLIVE BARNES

  October 16, 2007 -

  IF you want to know why Rome declined and fell, there's an object lesson for you in Handel's comic opera "Agrippina," which New York City Opera revived on Sunday. This was...more >

• CAN'T 'XANADU' IT ENOUGH

  'DU CREW' MAD FOR WHEEL GOOD B'WAY SHOW

  By MANDY STADTMILLER

  October 16, 2007 -

  BRANDON Purves has seen the Broadway musical "Xanadu" 85 times. (A similar though lesser achievement, he's seen the film 500 times.) He still cries when the cast sings "Suspended...more >

• 'NONE' IS TO FUN, AS 'ABOVE' IS TO . . .

  By FRANK SCHECK

  October 15, 2007 -

  ONE look at her all-pink bed room, and it's easy to see that the spoiled Upper East Side 17-year-old of "None of the Above" could give Elle of "Legally Blonde" a run for her...more >

• ALL'S GAY & ROSIE

  By CLIVE BARNES

  October 12, 2007 -

  IN olden days a glimpse of stocking was something shocking, and in 1975, Ter- rence McNally's "The Ritz," with its wisecracking, half-naked gay men, still registered high on the...more >

• BACKSTAGE WHISPERS

  PRODUCERS, STAGEHANDS CAN'T AGREE

  By MICHAEL RIEDEL

  October 12, 2007 -

  AS Broadway continued to be in limbo-land yesterday, fretting about the possibil ity of a lot of dark theaters this weekend, there was plenty of gossip flying around. Big hits such as "...;more >

• LITTLE MAGIC IN 'FLUTE'

  By CLIVE BARNES

  October 11, 2007 -

  WHEN East meets West, there's usually a divide. Witness the Khmer Arts Ensemble's production of "Pamina Devi: A Cambodian Magic Flute," which opened Tuesday at the Joyce. The...more >

• THE THREE FACES OF JOSIE

  By FRANK SCHECK

  October 11, 2007 -

  MOST men with any experience at all will tell you that women are complex, but "When the Messenger Is Hot" takes that to extremes. In Laura Eason's play, adapted from the acclaimed...more >