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He antics have even left the normally unshockable Boy George red-faced. George reveals how he hooked up with GaGa backstage after one of her gigs and she begged him to sign her, er, Lady bits. He tells us: "It was very brief when I met her, there were a lot of people in the room, it was all a bit chaotic.  

There's a lot more to Christine Ebersole than even her renaissance-like resume would imply. In a lengthy career filled with surprise twists and turns, she has made an impact in television and movies ( a season with SNL for starters not to mention multiple film roles ) , Broadway ( Tony Award-winning turns in 42nd Street and Grey Gardens ) and the world of cabaret ( sold-out shows and critical raves ) . But it turns out that Ebersole, who hails from Winnetka and makes her belated Chicago concert debut Thur

It all comes down to love   -Christine Ebersole

 

TACT/The Actors Company Theatre's revival of T.S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party , featuring co-artistic directors Cynthia Harris and Simon Jones, under the direction of their co-artistic director Scott Alan Evans, opens March 17 after previews from March 7 at Off-Broadway's Beckett Theatre. Joining Harris and Jones for the rare New York City revival of the play (running to April 10 at the Beckett in Theatre Row on West 42nd Street) are TACT members Mark Alhadeff and Jack Koenig and guest artists Jeremy Beck

dedicated to presenting neglected or rarely produced plays of literary merit.   -Scott Alan Evans

 

Players by the Sea demonstrates its reputation for excellence in its latest production, "A Moon for the Misbegotten." The classic Eugene O'Neill play is showing on the community theater's main stage through Saturday, March 27. Set in Connecticut in the 1920s, the action takes place in the backyard of the dilapidated Hogan family pig farm beginning on a hot and humid October day and continuing through the subsequent dawn.  

The Presenters Dolan have announced six more cabaret shows this spring at the Kranzberg Arts Center. Singer and pianist Daryl Sherman and singer Shana Farr ( pictured ) will make their first St. Louis appearances next month, while vocalists Jeff Wright, Monya Fisher, Alice Kinsella and Robert Breig each will offer encore performances of shows previously staged at the Kranzberg in February. Farr, a native of Columbia, MO, will do her show "Pure Imagination" at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 17.  

A PLAY written by a 19-year-old will take centre stage at a town theatre. A Taste of Honey comes to the Town Hall theatre in Hartlepool on Thursday, March 18. Shelagh Delaney was 19 when she wrote the play which became a West End hit in 1959 before transferring to the big screen two years later.  

The Musical, Emile: La Marquise Du Chatelet Defends Her LIfe Tonight, Distracted and Shipwrecked! An Entertainment. Beyond these a special holiday presentation of A Tuna Christmas will be staged.  

1914 Female impersonator Julian Eltinge is lyricist and star of The Crinoline Girl . Otto Hauerbach provides the book and Percy Wenrich the score. S/he'll twirl at the Knickerbocker Theatre for 11 weeks. 1918 Actor-manager Sir George Alexander dies in London at age 60.  

Controversial playwright Martin McDonagh is used to creating headlines in Britain and Ireland with his dark tales laced with black humor and flowing with stage blood. So his attempt to crack the American market with his first play set in the US has caused an understandable stir on Broadway, where Christopher Walken has been persuaded to play the lead role. But trying out an American setting as opposed to an Irish one is proving a challenging exercise.

He seems to have lost his hitherto unerring sense of direction in the busy, open country of the United States   -Ben Brantley

 

Controversial playwright Martin McDonagh is used to creating headlines in Britain and Ireland with his dark tales laced with black humour and flowing with stage blood. So his attempt to crack the American market with his first play set in the US has caused an understandable stir on Broadway, where Christopher Walken has been persuaded to play the lead role. But trying out an American setting as opposed to an Irish one is proving a challenging exercise.

He seems to have lost his hitherto unerring sense of direction in the busy, open country of the United States   -Ben Brantley