8,500 Performances for Phantom - Playbill
Broadway's The Phantom of the Opera hits 8,500 performances July 3 at the Majestic.

Oscar Candidates Laggins This Year - Variety
With the year half over, critics examine potential Oscar contenders.

Avoiding Another Strike - Yahoo
Actors' union, theater producers avoid strike.

On Campus, Liberal Professors Retire - NY Times
Baby boomers, hired in large numbers during a huge expansion in higher education, are being replaced as part of a vast generational change.

A Mediterranean Cruise - NY Times
NY Philharmonic offers a tour of the Mediterranean.

Compagnie Maguy Marin: Moving Days - Village Voice
How many steps does it take to make a world?

Cloudy Trophies - New Yorker
John Keats's obsession with fame and death.

Revealed - Art Newspaper
Researchers claim one third of Brooklyn Museum’s Coptic collection is fake.

Renaissance Sculpture Damaged in Fall at Met - NY Times
A relief by Renaissance sculptor crashes to the stone floor below.

The Met's Century of Photography - Village Voice
A striking, revealing lineup of giants from photography's first hundred years

Hell is for Children - TONY
Joyce Carol Oates exhumes a real-life tabloid tragedy.

Avoiding a Broadway Strike - Playbill
Actors' Equity and Broadway League reach tentative agreement

Review: Hancock - EW
Latest summer blockbuster fails to impress.

Trash Talking With Harvey Weinstein - Village Voice
Juicy details plucked from the garbage of a movie mogul...

The Big Picture - LA Times
How Pixar won over the public trust.

Symphony of Millions - New Yorker
Taking stock of the Chinese music boom.

Up, Up and Away - TONY
Foofwa d'Imobilite leaves his body behind.

On London Stages, the Devil in Love’s Deep Blue Sea - NY Times
When lovers meet on London’s stages this summer, the odds are it’s not violins they’re hearing. It’s alarm bells.

Edward Hopper, Lonely Guy - Village Voice
Etchings from the "Yankee Existentialist" come to Craig F. Starr.

Iraqi Files in U.S.: Plunder or Rescue? - NY Times
To critics, the depositing of Baath Party files at the Hoover Institution is an act of plunder.

Meet the New Press, Without the Pinned-Down, Wriggling Interviewees - NY Times
Tom Brokaw, the former Nightly News anchor, made a point of breaking with the past as the temporary host for Meet the Press.

Stop That Strike Talk - CNN
SAG President urges actors to end the strike before it begins.

Horacio Castellanos Moya Does the Twisted - Village Voice
A Salvadoran novelist's first English translation evokes the work of Thomas Bernhard

L.A. Honors Wackness, Wire - Variety
Films take top audience honors at LA Film Fest.

Review: The Romantics - NY Times
The Romantics manages to be more entertaining than many other stories without being notably more original.

International Affairs - TONY
Mayra Andrade, a new voice from Cape Verde, has the world at her fingertips.

Arts Patrons, the Next Generation - NY Times
You can never be too rich, but can you be too young to carry on the family legacy of philanthropy?

The Greeks Hoist the Dramatic Flag of Scotland - NY Times
The National Theater of Scotland is bringing Euripides’ “Bacchae” to New York.

Wall-E and Wanted Wow Box Office - Variety
Both films rocket past beyond their estimated box office figures.

A Young German Choreographer Pursues the Pursuit of Happiness - Village Voice
Johannes Wieland comes to Ailey Citigroup Theater.

Review: The Dark Knight - Rolling Stone
Dark Knight is a thunderbolt of a movie.

Back to the Future - TONY
The Whitney connects the past and present of Paul McCarthy's work.

A Girl’s Life - NY Times
An empire of American Girl dolls, books and now films has varied messages for its devoted following.