Washington Post
Dancing in The Dark: 'The Visit' With Chita Rivera
You get Chita Rivera, you expect a bit of razzle-dazzle. For the longest time in Signature Theatre's austere musical adaptation of "The Visit," the show obscures this essential facet of its star's appeal -- until partway into Act 2, when she's allowed to shed some of the production's stony resolve...
Washington City Paper
Curtain Calls
Glen Weldon reviews Closing Time at Theatre on the Run
Philadelphia City Paper
Glad All Over
Bill Irwin's dazzling, joyful The Happiness Lecture grabbed me (and I'm known to be unrepentantly mime-averse and clown-o-phobic), and kept me spellbound for 80 minutes.
Two's Company
The joys of William Mastrosimone's The Woolgatherer lie not in where it goes — we can all guess where a two-person romance is headed — but in how it gets there.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Stage Preview: Public Theater's Ted Pappas sings the praises of 'The Odd Couple'
Why "The Odd Couple"? Hasn't everyone already seen Neil Simon's 1965 hit comedy on stage? Apparently not. ...
Stage Review: 'Shear Madness' curls into permanent tease of silliness
One of the champions of interactive theater/cabaret is "Shear Madness," a comic whodunit that's been ensconced in other cities for two or three decades and has finally made its professional ...
In the Wings: 'Two Trains' extends?
As I'm putting this column to bed, Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre is trying to extend August Wilson's "Two Trains Running" another week, through June 8.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Public breaks new ground with Simon classic
Ask Ted Pappas why he chose Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple" to close the Pittsburgh Public Theater's 33rd season, and he quickly reels off three reasons.
'Don't Say Goodbye' pokes fun at mortality
Facing mortality isn't usually a laughing matter. But the cast who will bring the sensitive subject to light on the Saint Vincent College stage will keep audiences laughing.
Boston Phoenix
Gone but not forgotten
She Loves Me at the Huntington; plus Way Theatre Artists’ The Memory of Water
Providence Journal
Ain’t Misbehavin’ arrives in Matunuck
Matunuck’s Theatre by the Sea opened its 75th season this week with Ain’t Misbehavin’, the musical revue based on music written and made famous by jazz great Thomas “Fats” Waller...
Berkshire Eagle
A light shines on 'Caretaker'
It begins with a simple gesture. A man, a retiring, gentle man named Aston, holds out a sack of freshly acquired clothing to a homeless man, Davies, who has, by invitation, become a live-in guest in Aston's attic room in an abandoned house that may or may not be owned by Aston's brother, Mick.
Portland Phoenix
On the verge: A very busy Roadside
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