Caveat Emptor

Before you panic and run to Central Park this week to go wait on line for Al Pacino's last performances, know that his Merchant of Venice will indeed be performing on Broadway in the fall--at a more expensive, but at least more reliable price.

And before you shell out to see Helen Hunt in the hit revival of Our Town, know that you will still have one more chance to see it the way it should be seen--with director David Cromer playing the Stage Manager in September.  And then it closes.