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Ken Davenport's new theatre piece is inspired by the nearly 10-year-old web site where guests are invited to anonymously submit the glorious (or gruesome) details of their first sexual encounter.

22 young performers, hand-picked by Scott and Barbara Siegel, merrily roll along through an impressive and enjoyable evening of showtunes

Scott Siegel and his talented cohorts present a wonderfully entertaining crash course in a vibrant aspect of Broadway's history.

This flat out hilarious show is for people who love Broadway musicals but who hate Broadway musicals that are based on movies, have jukebox scores, sell on-stage seating, make the actors wear those mouthpiece microphones, wink at the audience with smarmy self-reference, are cheaply produced, are packed with jokes only gay men understand, really belong Off-Broadway and put the actors on roller skates.

Patti LuPone leads an extraordinary cast in the most breathtaking, emotionally packed evening of damn near perfect musical theatre in town.

If John van Druten's 1940 drawing room comedy isn't exactly packed with clever conversation and witty exchanges, the Roundabout's smart and stylish production does a darn good job of making up for any shortcomings in the text.

Amber Edwards' grand and glorious documentary about Broadway's most beloved master of the simple, catchy melody is loaded with rare film footage and proof his scores are more than just hummable tunes.

The Peccadillo Theater Company's revival of Sylvia Regan's 1940 sentimental drama, Morning Star is warm, humorous and perfectly lovely.

Her new show contains much of the familiar material that has made her every Broadway diva's worst nightmare, but what makes it work so beautifully is the range of artistry she shows as a song interpreter when the masks are lowered and it's just Christine Pedi up there.

Nell Benjamin's adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's classic operetta translates the piece into American musical comedy

Doug Grissom's play about the effect Elvis Presley had on American lives seems an earnest, if ineffective, effort.

The Metropolitan Room is the sight of Julie Wilson's latest love fest and the words and music of Kern, Fields, Styne and Porter have rarely had it so good.

Neil LaBute's new play is a neat little bloodless Grand Guignol for the imagination featuring a terrific performance by Frederick Weller.

Psychoanalysis sings again in Albert Tapper's therapy musical

The Mint Theater presents the American premiere of St. John Hankin's comedy about a loveable slacker

After an Off-Broadway run in 2005, the musical about a family dealing with a daughter's eating disorder is being used as an educational tool for high school productions

A.R. Gurney's latest may not rate up there with his best, but it's a rather sweetly off-beat near-love story featuring a heartwarming comic turn by Kristine Nielsen

Beauty is most certainly in the eye of the beholder when the eye is beholding Broadway's Audra McDonald. So what is she doing playing a woman considered far too plain and unappealing to land a man? A damn fine acting job is what she's doing.

August Wilson's evocative final work, debates the issues of urban renewal, racial assimilation and progress at the expense of the preservation of cultural heritage.

It takes a special talent to have an intimate conversation with 20,000 people, and though chances are Barbra Streisand was not on a first name basis with everyone who attended her 2006 concert tour, some of the most fascinating sounds produced by this legendary interpreter of the American popular song on her newly released concert CD is the personal dialogue she has with the waves and pockets of screams and squeals as she traverses the 360 degree stage.