PLAYBILL.COM&#39;S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW: Summer Slowdown
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Playbill - The theatre doesn&#39;t shut down in the summer the way it used to once upon a time, but there&#39;s no stopping show folk from taking a week or two before and after Labor Day. So, right now, the tourists own Shubert Alley, and the pigeons reign in Duffy Square.
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Playbill - With the success of Contact and Movin' Out, three other dance-driven shows may be headed to the New York stage.
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CHICAGO (CBS.MW) - After July&#39;s jobs report came up much weaker than expected, August&#39;s figures probably calmed nerves at the White House and the Federal Reserve, both of which have been making the case that recent economic soft spots were only temporary.
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Playbill - The studio cast album of the rock-driven bare - the musical with a flavor and tone somewhere between Rent and Spring Awakening - will be released Oct. 30.
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Hollywood attempted to  squeeze a few more dollars out of a record summer by launching  a handful of midrange movies that mostly came up short at the  North American box office during the weekend.
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Playbill - Ticket demand has prompted a one-week extension of Signature Theatre Company&#39;s Iphigenia 2.0 by Charles L. Mee, to Oct. 7.
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Here is a list of the top ten movies of the week.
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It was an off-Broadway rave, but this play has more trite than bite
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Good, bad or indifferent, one-act plays have been flooding the city's stages.
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Thereâs no money in it, but community theater is far from amateurish.
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Moviegoers are not following the script written for them by the Hollywood studios. In a sign that big-budget sequels may be losing their allure, North American ticket sales for the first three big films of the lucrative summer season have not kept pace with their respective predecessors.
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Summer's over. Football's started. School is back. And few people   apparently were interested in seeing Ben Affleck playing an actor who   used to wear tights for a living.
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Variety - NEW YORK -- Columbus Day weekend was a boon to Broadway as grosses skyrocketed 12.8% to &#36;12,689,073 during Week 19 (Oct. 4-10), with attendance up 10.2% to 192,379.
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Playbill - The Blyth Festival, the intimate summer festival devoted exclusively to works by Canadian authors - in contrast to the nearby Stratford Festival, whose mandate is Shakespeare first - will offer four world premieres in 2008.
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Reviews of six shows at this yearâs festival of plays and performance pieces.
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Take a look at the top movies stories this week!
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A look at the top movie stories this week.