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But the result's a disaster.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pepsico's Broadway bet</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/10/01/100398837/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/10/01/100398837/index.htm</guid><description>Candy Buckley, a Broadway stage actor acclaimed for her performance as Frau Kost in the recent Sam Mendes staging of Cabaret, is onstage portraying a martini-swilling 57-year-old mother. "I want to be healthier, but I also want a martini," laments Buckley's character. 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Hardly   </description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iraqi Theater Lives -- in London</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1645094,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1645094,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A spate of plays are examining both the political and human costs of the war in Iraq </description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brooks' latest gag? $450 seats for musical</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/06/29/news/funny/mel_brooks/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/06/29/news/funny/mel_brooks/index.htm</guid><description>Producer Mel Brooks is charging a record high of $450 a seat for a weekend performance of his new Broadway musical, 'Young Frankenstein,' according to a newspaper report.</description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rep: Liev Schreiber &amp;amp; Naomi Watts Are 'Not Married'</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20042176,00.html</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20042176,00.html</guid><description>Expectant parents Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts are not married - even though the actor told reporters over the weekend that they'd tied the knot.</description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:42:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Who'll Win the Tonys?</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1629851_1629828,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1629851_1629828,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>TIME's Richard Zoglin gives his appraisal of all the nominees for the four top awards and gauges their chances on this Sunday's awards show as Broadway honors its best </description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 18:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Broader than Broadway: Theater has spread across U.S.</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/06/broader.broadway/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/06/broader.broadway/index.html</guid><description>The first Broadway show that Christine Ebersole ever saw was not on Broadway, but in the auditorium of Skokie Junior High School in Winnetka, Illinois. It was Finian's Rainbow, and she sat in the orchestra pit, a dutiful student, violin at the ready. "I was so busy watching, it ended my career as a violinist," Ebersole says.</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Casualties of war mount in 'Six Years' </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/04/14/humana.sixyears/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/04/14/humana.sixyears/index.html</guid><description>He sits among critics, producers and agents in the darkened theater, looking almost as cowed as the hyperventilating young recruit in his show.</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2006 15:56:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Harold Pinter: Theater's angry old man</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/books/03/16/pinter.europe/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/books/03/16/pinter.europe/index.html</guid><description>Two weeks to the night after the Olympic flame was extinguished in this Italian Alpine city, something as good as gold was conferred on a long-proved mental athlete.</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:17:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>showbuzz</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/02/17/showbuzz/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/02/17/showbuzz/index.html</guid><description>Halle Berry had to write "I will not make 'Catwoman II' " on a chalkboard four times in order to earn her pudding pot as Harvard's Hasty Pudding woman of the year.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:10:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The Quest for drama</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/01/17/quest.theater/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/01/17/quest.theater/index.html</guid><description>(CNN) -- "The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life," so said Oscar Wilde.</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:18:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>2005: A Hollywood love story</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/12/27/2005.entertainment/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/12/27/2005.entertainment/index.html</guid><description>The most-talked about movie-star scene this year wasn't Harry Potter getting chosen by the Goblet of Fire. It wasn't "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" getting his chest hair ripped off. It wasn't Sarah Silverman telling a filthy joke, or Darth Vader getting burned, or George Clooney being tortured.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:36:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Review: 'Producers' puts Broadway on film</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/16/review.producers/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/16/review.producers/index.html</guid><description>It's impossible to imagine any movie getting as much advance publicity as Mel Brooks' "The Producers."</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:11:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>'Brokeback Mountain' leads Golden Globe nominations</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/13/golden.globes/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/13/golden.globes/index.html</guid><description>"Brokeback Mountain," the story of two cowboys grappling with their love for each other, was the top Golden Globe contender Tuesday, picking up seven nominations, including best dramatic picture.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:45:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The George and Tony show</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/13/george.tony.tm/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/13/george.tony.tm/index.html</guid><description>However slippery and accommodating his nature, Prime Minister Tony Blair (Julian Sands) is still a proper Brit.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:16:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Actress Anne Bancroft dies</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/07/bancroft.obit/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/07/bancroft.obit/index.html</guid><description>Actress Anne Bancroft, who seduced Dustin Hoffman in "The Graduate" and won Oscar and Tony awards for playing Helen Keller's teacher in "The Miracle Worker," has died of cancer at age 73, her agent said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2005 02:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Chairman of the Bard</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2005/06/01/8261945/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2005/06/01/8261945/index.htm</guid><description>This summer thousands of theatergoers will gravitate to an open tent at the Boscobel Restoration, about 50 miles north of New York City, for a few hours of greed, envy, jealousy, and power struggle...</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2005 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>showbuzz</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/05/23/showbuzz/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/05/23/showbuzz/index.html</guid><description>"Wild On!" is back, and Tara Reid has signed on as host.</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2005 19:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>From Disneyland to the Great White Way</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/20/otr.broadway/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/20/otr.broadway/index.html</guid><description>When singers and performers set out to sharpen their skills, some attend music conservatories, some go to a university with a strong performing arts program, and some take private lessons.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2005 21:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>showbuzz</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/05/09/showbuzz/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/05/09/showbuzz/index.html</guid><description>No, says director Mike Nichols, he wasn't trying to create a cultural icon or even a film that would captivate some members of the under-30 generation in 2005 just as powerfully as it had in 1967.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2005 18:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Black's rants on theater no stage whisper</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/04/28/sidebar.black/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/04/28/sidebar.black/index.html</guid><description>Besides Lewis Black, comedian, there's Lewis Black, playwright, a man who's written more than 40 plays and still keeps a good bit of his heart in the theater.</description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2005 12:18:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Arthur Miller dead at 89</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/02/11/obit.miller/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/02/11/obit.miller/index.html</guid><description>Arthur Miller, the American playwright whose works "Death of a Salesman," "All My Sons" and "The Crucible" made him one of the leading lights of 20th-century theater, has died. He was 89.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:31:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Review: 'Finding Neverland' a joy to see</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/19/review.neverland/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/19/review.neverland/index.html</guid><description>"Finding Neverland" is a beautifully crafted exploration of the many dimensions of the human heart.</description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:05:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>George Carlin: Enjoying 'the freak show'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/29/george.carlin/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/29/george.carlin/index.html</guid><description>Comedian George Carlin was launched into the upper echelon of humorists in the '70s by uttering seven words -- seven dirty words, to be exact. At 67 he still tells it like it is, which keeps censors (and other folks in positions of power) on their toes.</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2004 17:15:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Finance: The Musical!</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/12/08/355125/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/12/08/355125/index.htm</guid><description>Well, you can say one thing about Rosie O'Donnell: She puts her money where her mouth is. She footed the entire $10 million bill for her recently opened Broadway musical Taboo and voiced her intent...</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2003 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The New Risk Takers Meet the gutsy entrepreneurs who,             even in these tough times, are breaking open markets,         </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2002/03/01/319511/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2002/03/01/319511/index.htm</guid><description>Basil Hero plans on being the next Ted Turner. At a time when potential investors are balking and theatergoers are shunning the Great White Way--and despite his Lower Manhattan office building havi...</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2002 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Way Off Broadway</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2000/09/01/287223/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2000/09/01/287223/index.htm</guid><description>"STELLAAA!" The cry of Kowalski and others like it were once first heard on the grand commercial stages of New York City. Now 1,100 regional nonprofit theaters "identify and create the great litera...</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2000 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Your Money Back In Just 18 Years</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1999/11/01/268044/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1999/11/01/268044/index.htm</guid><description>In 1982, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, a stage version of the 1954 MGM movie musical, opened on Broadway. David Landay, producer and co-author of the show's book, had raised $1.25 million--nothi...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 1999 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Plays Around Here are six regional theaters that get rave reviews--but don't charge big-ticket prices.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1999/03/01/256249/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1999/03/01/256249/index.htm</guid><description>Theater fans may talk about the lullaby of Broadway, but there's nothing soothing about paying as much as $100 for an orchestra seat on the Great White Way, $199 a night for a hotel room in Times S...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 1999 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>INSURING BROADWAY</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/01/28/74621/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/01/28/74621/index.htm</guid><description>Meet Cicero and his understudy, ''B'' -- cockatoos currently appearing in Boston in the comedy La Bete and due to make their Broadway debut at the Eugene O'Neill theater on January 31. The birds ar...</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 1991 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Q &amp;amp; A The word from the playwright of Wall Street</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1989/10/01/85400/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1989/10/01/85400/index.htm</guid><description>What would a hit playwright know about investing and takeovers? Plenty, in the case of Jerry Sterner. A former packager of real estate tax shelters and a serious part-time stock market investor, St...</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 1989 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>BUSINESS BARD</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/05/08/71941/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/05/08/71941/index.htm</guid><description>Forget about Wall Street's favorite stocks. Let's talk about Wall Street's favorite play. Surprising numbers of investment bankers have been leaving work early and lining up at an off-Broadway thea...</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 May 1989 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>ALL THE COUNTRY'S A STAGE In regional theaters you can catch rising talent doing classics, revivals, and even future Broadway hi</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/03/30/68809/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/03/30/68809/index.htm</guid><description>Ever since the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis opened 25 years ago with a production of Hamlet, regional theater has been a powerful cultural force in America. Such hits as Agnes of God, Crimes of t...</description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 1987 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>MIT'S FAR-OUT COMPUTER LAB Backed by more than 40 big corporations, the new Media Lab at the high-tech mecca on the Charles Rive</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/08/19/66314/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/08/19/66314/index.htm</guid><description>IN A DIMLY LIT ROOM crammed with piles of black boxes and tangles of colored wires, a young scientist is talking to his computer screen in a loud voice as if it were a slightly deaf friend. Into hi...</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 1985 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>