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Los Angeles Times

'Shipwrecked!' at the Geffen is a literate romp
Victorian hoaxer Louis de Rougemont captivated England with his supposed true adventures as a castaway...

'Proof's' staging adds up
Also reviews of "My Old Friends," "The Last Seder," and "The Boychick Affair:...

Review: 'Louis & Keely: Live at the Sahara'
The small Sacred Fools Theater leaves the actors no room for error. Jake...

Review: 'It's Only Life'
Brimming with intimate character portraits, sophisticated intelligence and emotional sincerity, the...

Review: 'The Voice of the Prairie' at the Colony Theatre in Burbank
John Olive's play recalls the golden age of radio and the uproar it caused in...

Los Angeles Daily News

Tommy, can you hear me? The audience definitely can

'Shipwrecked!' sets sail for wonderfully charming adventures

Orange County Register

'Shipwrecked' gets better in the retelling
Donald Margulies' intriguing play about a teller of tall tales, which debuted at SCR last fall, improves in a Geffen Playhouse production.

Orange County Register Theater by Paul Hodgins Blog

Itamar Moses to be playwright in residence at the Old Globe

Overheard at the Geffen: some bad news for Mike Myers…

Weinsteins are poised to take over Broadway

Laguna Playhouse offers two summer workshops for aspiring young thespians

India.Arie to make her Broadway debut

‘Tommy’ mocks its critics — especially me

‘Tommy’ better heard than seen

Eden Espinosa, in O.C. and unplugged

Orange County Weekly

Theatre Out's 'Small Domestic Acts,' Staging in Fullerton, Is a Small Step in the Right Direction

L.A. Weekly

Theater Reviews: Showgirls, As You Like It
Also, Outbursts, The Last Seder, and more

San Francisco Chronicle

War's Mirror
In the play "The Journeys of the Angels," Roy Conboy draws parallels between Vietnam and the war in Iraq.

A Thought-Provoking Affair
Love and faith collide in "The Busy World Is Hushed" at Aurora Theatre.

San Francisco Examiner

Theater: Broadway by the Bay goes ‘Modern’
New York City in 1922, where the Roaring Twenties are going full speed, is the setting of “Thoroughly Modern Millie.” Broadway by the Bay presents the musical in San Mateo; the show runs July 10 to July 27.

Chad Jones' Theater Dogs Blog

`Chorus Line’ seeks next singular sensation

Cabaret review: Andrea McArdle

Creepy and kooky: An Addams Family musical!

My fair Julie: Ms. Andrews recalls `Home’

`Blonde’ boredom begins

Jeune Lune closes shop

Guest critic Leslie Ribovich reviews `Busy World’

Review: `Snapshots’

San Jose Mercury News

Theater review: Reduced Shakespeare Company - fun from Tolstoy to Tolkien

Obama's historic run provides comic fodder with race as punch line

San Jose Mercury News Karen D'Souza Blog

MAMMA MIA! Voulez-vous?

Contra Costa Times

Pat Craig: Charles Strouse honored; 'Kiss Me Kate,' 'Pericles' slated

San Francisco Weekly

'Tis Pity She's a Bore
John Ford's 1630 revenge play, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, rages with enough blood, lust, and retribution to make the dictator of a small Third...

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San Francisco Guardian

Beyond belief
The Queer issue: The Busy World Is Hushed questions love, family, and faith

San Diego Union-Tribune

'We have to use all of ourselves'
...and so she does – Charlayne Woodard pours heart into 'The Night Watcher'

Seattle Times

The wheels are off, but musical "Zanna, Don't" still makes do

Aqua Theatre not soon to be forgotten

Camano Island's Caitlin Kinnunen, 16, cast in Broadway's "Spring Awakening"

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

A 'fairy tale' that turns the tables on homophobia
Contemporary Classics presents the musical fairy tale "Zanna, Don't!" in which being homosexuality is the norm, and men and women attracted to each other are subject to heterophobia.

ACT Theatre's party for Noel Coward is absolutely 'Marvelous'
ACT puts on the sort of Noel Coward party we'd all want to be invited to.

Seattle Weekly

Extraordinary Gentleman
ACT gamely celebrates a master quipmaker.
It's refreshing to catch a show that neither hides nor apologizes for its anachronisms. A Marvelous Party: The Noël Coward Celebration...

Price Lines
The pay-what-you-can movement picks up some key converts.
Back in the mid-'90s, a number of Seattle's professional theaters began experimenting with a new pricing model during preview weeks: They took...

The Stranger

Cowards Versus Drag Queens
ACT Theatre’s Bipartite, Very Gay Noël Coward Extravaganza

Circus Contraption
A Messy New Circus Play at Live Girls! Theater

Theater News
A Disney Musical at Intiman