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Christopher Durang's loopy new satire, Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them, is a bright and colorful examination of your average American family's relationship with torture. When Felicity—played by Laura Benanti, fresh off her Tony award-winning turn in Gypsy—wakes up in bed next to the vaguely Middle Eastern-looking Zamir (Amir Arison, who you may remember from Queens Boulevard), she discovers that her long night of partying has had some undesirable consequences. And her only hope of shaking her louche new spouse is to take him home to meet her eccentric, neo-con father (Richard Poe), who takes a very special interest in this mysterious newcomer.

Every show biz impresario knows that the best way to get to Broadway is not by waiting for Guffman but by stirring up a little controversy. Though it seems unlikely that’s what Connecticut high school students intended while developing a play about the Iraq quagmire, controversy is what they got when Principal Skinner Canty cancelled their little performance. After the ensuing uproar, which included public outcries from such heavyweights as Edward Albee and Christopher Durang, two off-Broadway theaters in New York have offered to produce the play, called Voices in Conflict.

SIGNING: If there is one person we could think of that doesn't need an autobiography...it might as well be Rupert Everett. Yet, he'll be signing his new book "Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins: The Autobiography" tonight. He wasn't just in "My Best Friends Wedding", he was also friends with Warhol and has been to easter egg hunts in Elizabeth Taylor's garden. Fabulous.

FILM: Tonight is one of the last Made in New York movie nights at MoMA. Tonight it's 1970 film, The Projectionist: "an early New York independent feature comedy much beloved by the young at heart about a lonely projectionist who works in a theater that shows “classic” films and whose imaginative daydreams transforms him into a hero, Captain Flash."