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...closed a couple of weeks ago. Next up at the 82 year-old Barrymore is Elling, starring Brendan Fraser and Jennifer Coolidge, which opens in November. The Ethel Barrymore is the last surviving Schubert theater specifically built for a performer of the day....
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...(1932) A prince (John Barrymore) plots to kill mad monk Rasputin (Lionel Barrymore) for the good of the czar, the czarina (Ethel Barrymore) and Russia. It's a frenzy of Barrymores!! 9:00pm Top Chef Bravo - Ethiopian cuisine quickfire; chefs must create a dish...
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Approximate running times are in parentheses. Theaters are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of current shows, additional listings, showtimes and tickets: nytimes.com/theater.
From left, Elsa David, Darren Pettie and Glenn Fitzgerald in
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Playwright David Mamet is renown for his profane, lightning-fast dialogue, tough characters and elaborate plot twists. Vintage Mamet leaves audiences stunned by his verbal dexterity and cynical sensibilities. His ability to confront searing issues
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Playwright David Mamet is renown for his profane, lightning-fast dialogue, tough characters and elaborate plot twists. Vintage Mamet leaves audiences stunned by his verbal dexterity and cynical sensibilities. His ability to confront searing issues
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Huffington Post
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For a playwright very much identified with urban life, David Mamet never hesitates in sending sacred cows out to pasture. His hustlers and con men, ruthless salesmen and sleazy filmmakers--and all those for whom sexual perversity and a potty mouth are
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Huffington Post
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For a playwright very much identified with urban life, David Mamet never hesitates in sending sacred cows out to pasture. His hustlers and con men, ruthless salesmen and sleazy filmmakers--and all those for whom sexual perversity and a potty mouth are
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Huffington Post
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David Mamet is a connoisseur of four-letter words, but he may have finally found one potent enough to subdue his infamous swagger.
Race, the title and subject of his new play, which opened this month at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway, starts
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"Race," the title and subject of his new play, which opened Sunday at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway, starts strong but loses steam as the playwright approaches his tinderbox topic more like a journalist anxious to appear balanced than a
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"Race," the title and subject of his new play, which opened Sunday at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway, starts strong but loses steam as the playwright approaches his tinderbox topic more like a journalist anxious to appear balanced than a
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San Francisco Chronicle
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In David Mamet's latest show, the playwright and director turns his
unique perspective and Pulitzer Prize-winning pen to the legal
world and tensions that are literally black and white. The cast
members of his latest work—"Race," which opens Dec. 6 at
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Backstage
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In David Mamet's latest show, the playwright and director turns his
unique perspective and Pulitzer Prize-winning pen to the legal
world and tensions that are literally black and white. The cast
members of his latest work—"Race," which opens Dec. 6 at
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Backstage
http://www.backstage.com/bso/content_display/news-and-features/e3ibcf36932032fa8afbdceba15c725adeb
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The title is stark in its simplicity but "Race," David Mamet's provocative, hot-topic new play, is anything but simple.
The questions "Race" poses and the answers its characters supply add up to an intriguing study of perception — from both black and
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LoHud.com
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Treating herself to an evening at the theater, Eva Longoria was spotted at the Broadway opening of “Race” last night (December 6) in New York City.
The “Desperate Housewives” hottie looked lovely as she arrived at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, sporting
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Treating herself to an evening at the theater, Eva Longoria was spotted at the Broadway opening of “Race” last night (December 6) in New York City.
The “Desperate Housewives” hottie looked lovely as she arrived at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, sporting
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David Mamet 's latest Broadway play, 'Race,' opened last night at New York City's Ethel Barrymore Theatre and a bevy of celebrity notables, including Rev. Al Sharpton, Eva Longorio Parker, Jerry Seinfeld, Alec Baldwin, Val Kilmer, Gayle King, Emmy
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Black Voices | Blogs
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David Mamet 's latest Broadway play, 'Race,' opened last night at New York City's Ethel Barrymore Theatre and a bevy of celebrity notables, including Rev. Al Sharpton, Eva Longorio Parker, Jerry Seinfeld, Alec Baldwin, Val Kilmer, Gayle King, Emmy
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Black Voices | Blogs
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No sooner had the curtain fallen on David Mamet’s “Race” the other night than the predominantly white audience rose, smiling, to its feet. Standing ovations on Broadway have become a conditioned reflex, but this one seemed a shade more self-conscious
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The New York Times
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David Mamet can always be counted on to have a provocative idea or two up his sleeve, and that's certainly the case with his newest play, Race, which officially opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on December 6 under the playwright's direction. The
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TheaterMania.com
http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/23291
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David Mamet can always be counted on to have a provocative idea or two up his sleeve, and that's certainly the case with his newest play, Race, which officially opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on December 6 under the playwright's direction. The
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TheaterMania.com
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RACE
Race is a new play, written and directed by David Mamet, which announces its theme in the title; with the playwright further describing it as being about "Race and the lies we tell each other on the subject." There are four actors: Three men,
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Paper Magazine
http://www.papermag.com/blogs/2009/11/this_month_in_theater_december_1.php
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1926 Ethel Barrymore stars in W. Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife, which stays for 295 constant performances at Maxine Elliott's Theatre.
1895 Birthday of legendary film choreographer Busby Berkeley (1895-1976), whose career will be launched with a
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1926 Ethel Barrymore stars in W. Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife, which stays for 295 constant performances at Maxine Elliott's Theatre.
1895 Birthday of legendary film choreographer Busby Berkeley (1895-1976), whose career will be launched with a
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Playbill
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“CULTIVATE the appearance of contrition,” the character Jack Lawson, a lawyer, tells a white client accused of raping a black woman in “Race,” a new play opening on Broadway next Sunday. As uttered with don’t-waste-my-time iciness by the actor James
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The New York Times
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“CULTIVATE the appearance of contrition,” the character Jack Lawson, a lawyer, tells a white client accused of raping a black woman in “Race,” a new play opening on Broadway next Sunday. As uttered with don’t-waste-my-time iciness by the actor James
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The New York Times
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The website for RACE, the new play written and directed by David Mamet, is now live at David Mamet, is now live at www.raceonbroadway.com The website has already received interest and inquiries from a number of inner city radio station listeners, women’
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Broadway World
http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/RACE_Launches_Interactive_Website_20091124
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1949 Katharine Cornell is That Lady, a princess confined in her castle by a jealous monarch. Guthrie McClintic stages the Kate O'Brien play.
1937 Ethel Barrymore and Dudley Diggs star in The Ghost of Yankee Doodle. Written by Sidney Howard, the play
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Playbill
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/63428-Today-In-Theatre-History-NOVEMBER-22
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RACE begins previews on Monday, November 16, 2009 at 8:00 pm at The Ethel Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th St.). The official opening night is Sunday, December 6, 2009.
RACE, the new play written and directed by David Mamet, stars James Spader, David
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St. James Theatre
First Preview: Oct. 8
Opening: Oct. 29
Director: Warren Carlyle
Choreographer: Warren Carlyle
Cast: Kate Baldwin, Jim Norton, Cheyenne Jackson
Transfer of the City Center Encores! revival of the Burton Lane, Fred Saidy and E.Y.
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Playbill
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1935 Mulatto, a new play by poet Langston Hughes, opens tonight at the Vanderbilt Theatre. This play, which follows the trials of a young interracial couple in the Old South, stars Rose McClendon and runs 373 performances.
1904 Birthday of Moss Hart,
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Playbill
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1935 Mulatto, a new play by poet Langston Hughes, opens tonight at the Vanderbilt Theatre. This play, which follows the trials of a young interracial couple in the Old South, stars Rose McClendon and runs 373 performances.
1904 Birthday of Moss Hart,
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Playbill
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/72931-Today_in_Theatre_History_OCTOBER_24
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The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Tanghalang Pilipino will present bilingual performances of Tennessee Williams' 1947 Pulitzer Prize-winning play A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE starting October 9th ‘til the 25th at the CCP Tanghalang Aurelio
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Broadway World
http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/A_STREETCAR_NAMED_DESIRE_in_Manila_Opens_109_20091001
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The Royal Family - Samuel J. Friedman Theatre - Broadway - New York City, NY - *** (out of 5 stars)
Written by George S. Kaufman & Edna Ferber, Directed by Doug Hughes
Currently in previews, Opens Oct. 8th 2009, Closes Nov. 29th 2009
Whip It =
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Tapeworthy
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The Royal Family - Samuel J. Friedman Theatre - Broadway - New York City, NY - *** (out of 5 stars)
Written by George S. Kaufman & Edna Ferber, Directed by Doug Hughes
Currently in previews, Opens Oct. 8th 2009, Closes Nov. 29th 2009
Whip It =
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The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Tanghalang Pilipino will present bilingual performances of Tennessee Williams' 1947 Pulitzer Prize-winning play A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE starting October 2nd ‘til the 25th at the CCP Tanghalang Aurelio
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Broadway World
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The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Tanghalang Pilipino will present bilingual performances of Tennessee Williams' 1947 Pulitzer Prize-winning play A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE starting October 2nd ‘til the 25th at the CCP Tanghalang Aurelio
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Broadway World
http://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=73025
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The first time I saw a leg whip, it blew my mind.
This was back around 1970, when Saturdays almost always found me in front of the television with my dad, watching a double-barreled assault of roller derby and wrestling. In those days, roller derby was
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The revival, under director Doug Hughes, opens on Oct. 8 at the Friedman. It marks Rosemary Harris' second coming as a Cavendish. In 1975 she was Julie, the mother/daughter in the middle, and now she's been kicked upstairs to micromanage the family
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Playbill
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The revival, under director Doug Hughes, opens on Oct. 8 at the Friedman. It marks Rosemary Harris' second coming as a Cavendish. In 1975 she was Julie, the mother/daughter in the middle, and now she's been kicked upstairs to micromanage the family
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Playbill
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1938 In mid-September 1999, New York experienced the effect of a hurricane storm on Broadway. Ethel Barrymore had a similar experience in 1938 on this date. It took her 45 minutes to get from her hotel to the theatre, which was only seven blocks away,
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Playbill
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her mother up.
Broadway actress Ethel Barrymore, a star from the turn of the last century until her death in 1959, was a huge baseball fan, principally of the New York Giants.
Though best remembered for her film roles, including the Empress of
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Monterey County Herald
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her mother up.
Broadway actress Ethel Barrymore, a star from the turn of the last century until her death in 1959, was a huge baseball fan, principally of the New York Giants.
Though best remembered for her film roles, including the Empress of
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The Stamford Advocate
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her mother up.
Broadway actress Ethel Barrymore, a star from the turn of the last century until her death in 1959, was a huge baseball fan, principally of the New York Giants.
Though best remembered for her film roles, including the Empress of
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Monterey County Herald
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Ethel Barrymore was not happy that her legendary family was the subject of a play. The Barrymore were giants of stage and screen 70-80 years ago. Today, not so much.
The theatrical act of "going on" has a double meaning in The Royal Family, George S.
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Playbill
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/132835-Broadway_Curtain_Goes_Up_on_Royal_Family_of_Harris_Rogers_Maxwell_Glover_and_More
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Ethel Barrymore was not happy that her legendary family was the subject of a play. The Barrymore were giants of stage and screen 70-80 years ago. Today, not so much.
The theatrical act of "going on" has a double meaning in The Royal Family, George S.
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Playbill
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/132835-Broadway_Curtain_Goes_Up_on_Royal_Family_of_Harris_Rogers_Maxwell_Glover_and_More
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He’s the director, so he can make such comparisons. And really, his theory isn’t far-fetched.
For reality television was nonexistent when George S. Kaufman teamed with Edna Ferber to write The Royal Family. Heck, there was no such thing as television,
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2TheAdvocate.com
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These plays and musicals are scheduled to open on Broadway before the end of the year.
Plays: "A Steady Rain," Sept. 29, Gerald Schoenfeld; "Superior Donuts," Oct. 1, Music Box; "Wishful Drinking," Oct. 4, Studio 54; "After Miss Julie," Oct. 22,
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The Delaware News Journal
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Playbill.com: You had a good time the first time around?
RH: Oh, yes. The play is irresistible for actors. Because there's nothing more fun, for actors, than making fun of actors, when you are one of them. Kaufman and Ferber, they really understood
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Playbill.com: You had a good time the first time around?
RH: Oh, yes. The play is irresistible for actors. Because there's nothing more fun, for actors, than making fun of actors, when you are one of them. Kaufman and Ferber, they really understood
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Ethel Barrymore was born to the stage-and spent much of her life there. Her father was matinee idol Maurice Barrymore, her mother comedienne Georgiana Drew, with eight generations in the theater before her. For half a century Ethel starred in
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