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Los Angeles Times

B.B. King, Liza Minnelli at Hollywood Bowl

Review: 'The Who's Tommy'

Orange County Register

'Tommy' sounds good but looks bad
A new staging of The Who's famous rock opera emphasizes sound over visuals with mixed results.

Orange County Register Theater By Paul Hodgins Blog

Theatre de la Jeune Lune to close its doors

San Francisco Chronicle

'Snapshots' a Stephen Schwartz scrapbook

San Francisco Examiner

A musical kind of Cinderella man — just in time for gay pride week
“Oh My Godmother!” Bay Area playwright’s Ron Lytle’s campy, boisterous retelling of the Cinderella story, comes to San Francisco after getting rave reviews in the East Bay.

San Jose Mercury-News

'Snapshots' a little blurry on concept

Sacramento Bee

Theater Review: 'Forum' pecks its way back to festival

Theater Review: Smart, sassy 'Sylvia' wags and pleases, but never has to beg for attention

San Diego Union-Tribune

Essentials
San Diego Musical Theatre's production of “The Full Monty” got lots of positive exposure last year. (C'mon, you knew the pun was coming.) Now the upstart company is back for a new season with a slightly more well-traveled take on male idolatry

Staging of Clifford Odets' classic play is golden
The boxer at the center of “Golden Boy” is a lightweight. Clifford Odets' play definitely is anything but. This moody piece about pugs and palookas and a fiddle-playing champ has been through more than a few rounds (it was first produced more than 70 years ago), but it still fills a stage with its bracing wit and rough-and-ready sense of poetry.

Moxie's 'Listener' is otherworldly in an eerily familiar wayThings being as they are, the premise behind Liz Duffy Adams' new ruined-Earth play, “The Listener,” produced by Moxie Theatre, is believable – if you buy that polar bears are drowning in globally warmed oceans, that overconsumption is rising and food production is collapsing, that Iran is enhancing uranium in a potentially deadly gambit.

The Oregonian

Weekend reviews
'Coriolanus', 'The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler'