Word: manhattanization
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...hits from Andrew Lloyd Webber or the "Les Miz" team in years, the era of the Brit-generated mega-musical seems all but over. Happily, straight plays seem to be filling the gap. Demanding dramas like Michael Frayn's "Copenhagen" have become unlikely Broadway hits, while the Manhattan Theatre Club, an off-Broadway stalwart, successfully transferred two strong works, "Proof" and "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife," to the main drag this fall. With regional theaters thriving and even Las Vegas playing host to performance troupes like Blue Man Group, the stage is alive and bustling...
...FULLY COMMITTED A frazzled afternoon with the reservations clerk for a hot-hot-hot Manhattan restaurant. Becky Mode's one-actor play (a hit off-Broadway and now in L.A.) is a tart and hilarious send-up of the social feeding frenzy...
...audiences, it's a smart introduction to Hong Kong's top auteur-entrepreneur. New Yorkers can get a banquet of Tsui, with retrospectives starting May 25 at Manhattan's Anthology Film Archives and Brooklyn's Plaza Twin, and spiffy prints of his Once Upon a Time in China I and II on view at Manhattan's Film Forum...
...have become regular events over the past year in San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Denver and Tel Aviv, Israel, where losing a job is actually the most pleasant type of firing taking place in that country. Back in March, I tried to go to one in Manhattan thrown by a group of Web consultants called the Hired Guns, but when I showed up at Rebar at 8 p.m. I found two guys with power tools and surgeon's masks taking the place apart. You don't have to be Alan Greenspan to know the economy...
Macaulay quit movies in 1994 after his 15th film in seven years and went to a private high school in Manhattan (he dropped out during senior year). He has fended off plenty of acting offers ("I could have done a million cheesy teen movies by now"), but was persuaded by producer Gregory Mosher to try theater, which he hadn't done since some child roles in the 1980s. Now he's willing to see where his second show-biz career takes him. "When I stopped, I just thought it was over and I was never, ever going...