Theater Talkback: One Night Only

NYTimes.com: As is often the way in New York, to get to heaven, you had to pass through hell. Times Square was especially infernal on Monday evening, shrouded in a sooty humidity and colonized by a promotional encampment of the reality television series “Dance Your Ass Off.” This meant there were women on a tented stage gyrating away the pounds to Beyoncé (“Single Ladies,” of course), along with someone in a dancing-bear suit and a Statue of Liberty crown.