= CURDATE() or closing_date='0000-00-00') ORDER BY TRIM( LEADING 'a ' FROM TRIM( LEADING 'an ' FROM TRIM( LEADING 'the ' FROM LOWER( title ) ) ) )"; $result = mysql_query($sql,$link); while (list($title,$uri) = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $title = ucwords(strtolower($title)); if (preg_match('/^The\s*?(.*)/',$title,$match)) { $title = ltrim($match[1]) . ", The"; } $broadway_shows[$title] = $uri; } // Get links for off-broadway shows $sql = "SELECT title, virtual_url FROM shows WHERE broadway='N' and published='Y' and placeholder='N' and (closing_date >= CURDATE() or closing_date='0000-00-00') ORDER BY TRIM( LEADING 'a ' FROM TRIM( LEADING 'an ' FROM TRIM( LEADING 'the ' FROM LOWER( title ) ) ) )"; $result = mysql_query($sql,$link); while (list($title,$uri) = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $title = ucwords(strtolower($title)); if (preg_match('/^The\s*?(.*)/',$title,$match)) { $title = $match[1] . ", The"; } $off_broadway_shows[$title] = $uri; } // Get list of upcoming shows $sql = "SELECT title, virtual_url, opening_date, broadway FROM shows WHERE placeholder='Y' AND published='Y' ORDER BY opening_date"; $result = mysql_query($sql,$link); while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $month_year = strtoupper(strftime('%b %Y',strtotime($row['opening_date']))); $day = strftime('%e',strtotime($row['opening_date'])); $show[$day] = $row['title']; if ($row['broadway'] == 'Y') { $url = '/shows/' . $row['virtual_url']; } else { $url = '/shows/off-broadway/' . $row['virtual_url']; } if ($upcoming[$month_year][$day]) { array_push($upcoming[$month_year][$day],array('title' => $row['title'], 'url' => $url)); } else { $upcoming[$month_year][$day] = array(); array_push($upcoming[$month_year][$day],array('title' => $row['title'], 'url' => $url)); } } // Get recent reviews $sql = "SELECT reviews.review as review, reviews.critic as critic, reviews.published_date as date, reviews.rating as rating, shows.title as title, shows.image as image, shows.virtual_url as virtual_url, shows.broadway as broadway FROM reviews, shows, newspapers WHERE reviews.newspaper_id=newspapers.id and newspapers.title='New York Times' and shows.id=reviews.show_id and (shows.closing_date >= CURDATE() or shows.closing_date='0000-00-00') ORDER BY reviews.published_date DESC LIMIT 7"; $result = mysql_query($sql,$link); while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { array_push($recent_reviews,$row); } $latest_review = array_shift($recent_reviews); function limit_text($text, $limit) { if (strlen($text) > $limit) { $words = str_word_count($text, 2); $pos = array_keys($words); if ($pos[$limit]) { $text = substr($text, 0, $pos[$limit]) . '...'; } } return $text; } $rating_image['positive'] = 'indexbenhappy.jpg'; $rating_image['mixed'] = 'indexbenmixed.jpg'; $rating_image['negative'] = 'indexbensad.jpg'; ?> Broadway Reviews, New York Times, Ben Brantley, Theater Reviews, Shows, Plays, Musicals,

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