Playbill - Classic Stage Company presents the Target Margin Theater production of Faust, Parts I & II - a six-hour theatrical event - starting April 21 at CSC's home at 136 East 13th Street.

Reuters - Every now and then -- not very often -- something unusually wonderful happens in the theater. A very good play gets the cast that it deserves and the cast, perhaps realizing the potential of the situation, assumes a special kind of brilliance together that flares up immediately and sustains itself for an entire evening.

Reuters - Julia Roberts is still Hollywood's ultimate "Pretty Woman" but her first venture onto a Broadway stage failed to convince the critics whose verdict was "modest," "flat" and "lackluster."

Reuters - Clifford Odets' impassioned Depression-era drama receives a much needed revival courtesy of the Lincoln Center Theater.

Playbill - Playwright David Hare has weaved the political events of the past five years into Stuff Happens, a historical drama about the United States' path to war in Iraq, which officially opens at the Public Theater April 13 after previews from March 28.

Reuters - Hollywood star Kevin Spacey pledged on Thursday to keep running the Old Vic despite a mauling from critics and questions over why the theater may stand empty for the next five months.

Reuters - Two major theater entries begin previews this Friday: At the Schoenfeld, David Schwimmer makes his Broadway debut, and his first post-"Friends" stage appearance in New York, co-starring with Zeljko Ivanek and Tim Daly in Jerry Zaks' revival of Herman Wouk's "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial."

Playbill - The sold-out Atlantic Theater Company production the U.S. premiere of The Lieutenant of Inishmore ends its Off-Broadway run April 9 - 10 days before it moves uptown to Broadway's Lyceum Theatre.

Reuters - When David Hare's incisive political play on the decision to go to war in Iraq debuts in New York next week, the audience will be in the spotlight.

Reuters - If all the world's a stage, a Brazilian theater company sees Sao Paulo's filthy, stinking River Tiete as the perfect venue for a play about the bleak life of a poor working family.

Playbill - Classic Stage Company will present the Target Margin Theater production of Faust, Parts I & II - a six-hour theatrical event - starting April 21 at CSC's home at 136 East 13th Street.

Reuters - Sandra Bernhard doesn't exactly walk onto the stage at the Daryl Roth Theater. She slinks, she ambles. She dares you not to applaud.

Reuters - She has two Academy Awards and 13 Oscar nominations over an illustrious 30-year Hollywood career, but actress Meryl Streep says she still suffers from stage fright.

Playbill - This June, Manhattan's The New School for Drama will launch a new theatre program called The Summer Music Theater Immersion Experience.

Reuters - Written by William Shakespeare -- and liberally adapted by Cornerstone Theater Company's Alison Carey -- "As You Like It: A California Concoction" is inventive, ingenious and great fun.

Playbill - The Commercial Theater Institute will once again offer its annual three-day intensive training program, "Producing for the Commercial Theater," aimed at budding producers.

Playbill - Screen actors Josh Charles and Bill Smitrovich will headline the upcoming American Conservatory Theater west coast premiere of Caryl Churchill's A Number.

Reuters - First there was the trilogy of books. Then there were the films. Now there is the theatrical extravaganza.

Playbill - Victory Gardens Theater's first full season of works at its new $11.3 million mainstage at Chicago's historic Biograph Theater, will boast a collection of world premieres, the Tony Award honored troupe announced March 28.

Reuters - There's no second take on stage, but that may not matter when you're Julia Roberts.