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Los Angeles Times

'The Blowin of Baile Gall' at the Lyric Theatre

'This Side of Paradise' at the Huntington

'The Sweepers' at ICT in Long Beach
Best friends alternately hold onto custom and watch it vanish with comic and...

Los Angeles Times - The Envelope

Tony Award winnahs get box-office bump

Orange County Register

A new version of 'Tommy' gets inside viewers' heads
An L.A. production of the Who's famous rock opera uses headphones to provide a 3-D audio experience.

Back Stage West

Review: Kimberly Akimbo
The playwright's facility for dropping unexpected comic zingers in the midst of tense, painful moments renders the proceedings particularly bittersweet.

Review: Welcome to the Moon and Other Plays
As with so many first passes by writers destined for greatness, revisiting this material is a fascinating experience.

Review: Natural Selection
Despite many problems, it's an amusing but chaotic show. Subtle it ain't, but it's often fun.

Review: The Sweepers
This play's West Coast premiere shines because of the consummate skills of director Caryn Desai's quintet of actors.

Review: The Hiding Place
Charming and funny, with some great lines, despite some initial confusion, the play sometimes seems not to know where it's going until it gets there.

Review: Boise, USA
Gene Franklin Smith's world premiere seems like an old play, not because of its theme but because the pitch and style are smothered under layers of melodramatic dust.

San Francisco Chronicle

Beyond The Bard
Bill Rauch has found his dream job — he's the new artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, having moved to Ashland more than a year ago to take the reins of the celebrated organization.
Also: Alfresco offerings in the season's second half.

Chad Jones' Theater Dogs Blog

Stephen Schwartz shares musical `Snapshots’

Spencer’s day has come

Contra Costa Times

Father-daughter-run theatre group up and running after long hiatus
Diablo Actors' Ensemble production of 'Butterflies are Free' runs until July 19 at Locust St. theater

1960s comedy brings out laughter, tears

San Francisco Weekly

Fundamentally Flawed
In the mid-1990s, Egyptian-American actor-comedian Ahmed Ahmed got his first big break when he was offered a part in the Hollywood movie...

Also Playing
7 Sins. Halfway through James Judd's entertaining 75-minute solo show, it dawns on you: Who the hell is this guy and why am I laughing so hard?...

San Francisco Guardian

Blood in, blood out
Can incest and vengeance right an upside-down world?

San Diego Union-Tribune

Little houses on the prairie
Director Paul Mullins sets Globe's 'Merry Wives of Windsor' in the Old West

Seattle Weekly

The Air Is Sweet
Anyone who grew up watching Sesame Street—which must be nearly every American under 45—has more than just the show's setting and...

The Stranger

The Street Where You Live
Avenue Q and Barack Obama

Theater News
A Review of Three Hotels

Nothing Gold Can Stay
A Report from Intiman's Tony Awards Party