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• 'BRISCOE' KID'S OUTRAGE

  WIDOW OF 'LAW' STAR ORBACH 'SHUCKED' HIS EYES & GOUGED ME: SON

  August 10, 2008 - THE son of beloved "Law & Order" actor Jerry Orbach, who died of cancer in 2004, has lashed out at his father's widow, claiming in a vitriolic letter that she manipulated her...more >

• NEW HIT: $25 FOR AISLE

  PATRONS KICKED IN WALLET

  August 8, 2008 - THE city is careening toward recession, and what do the ater owners do? Raise ticket prices! Variety announced this week that Jujamcyn Theaters, the third-largest landlord on Broadway, has tacked...more >

• FORGING A LITERARY PATH

  DISGRACED BIOGRAPHER FINDS CRIME PAYS NICELY

  August 6, 2008 - I'VE never forgotten the day Lee Israel, biographer and literary forger, showed up at my office with a haunted look in her eyes and begged me for the $150 we owed her. It was 1992 and I was...more >

• DENNEHY HAS O'NEILL DOWN

  August 1, 2008 - STRATFORD, Ontario, Canada - Since the death of Jason Robards in 2000, Brian Dennehy has become the American actor most closely associated with the plays of Eugene O'Neill (although Kevin...more >

• GREAT BLACK WAY

  CEDRIC NEXT STAR HEADED FOR STAGE

  July 30, 2008 - HE'S white, he's 61 and he recently came out as an NPR-hating conservative. But if David Mamet is trying to be labeled "a square," he's failing miserably. The celebrated...more >

• 'HORRIFIED' HUBBY GETS OVER HIS 'NET NUT

  'SHE PROBABLY ENJOYED IT'

  July 23, 2008 - PHILIP J. SMITH, the president of Broadway's mighty Shubert Organization, sat at his usual table at Sardi's yesterday accepting congratulations. Only this time, it wasn't for a hit...more >

• IRONS EVER 'SO GOOD'

  TOP JOB IN BRIT POL DRAMA

  July 18, 2008 - LONDON - Save for a short run in City Opera's "A Little Night Music" five years ago, Jeremy Irons hasn't appeared on the New York stage since his Tony-winning turn in Tom...more >

• A REALLY WINE TIME

  'PHANTOM' SEQUEL IS UNMASKED AT UK BASH

  July 16, 2008 - LONDON - The man in the mask is back. And so is the champagne. Andrew Lloyd Webber unveiled the first act of "Phantom . . . Once Upon Another Time" at his annual Sydmonton Festival two...more >

• DEATH CAN'T STOP 'HOLIDAY'

  July 11, 2008 - THERE won't be any splashy Broadway openings until the fall, but in rehearsal studios throughout Times Square, new musicals are already percolating. One that's generating very good buzz...more >

• 'MAMMA MIA!' MANIA

  ISLAND ABUZZ AS MOVIE IS SET TO DEBUT

  July 9, 2008 - THE inhabitants of Skopelos, a sleepy little island in the Aegean Sea, are preparing for an invasion - the "Mamma Mia!" invasion. The film version of the hit musical was shot on Skopelos...more >