Thursday, June 5, 2008

ATW NewsClips - Mid-Atlantic & New England Print

Washington Post

No Whispering Hush In a Delightful 'Moon'
Would that sleeplessness were always as beguiling as it is in "Goodnight Moon," the adorable and spiffy-looking children's musical that's heading to the Atlas Performing Arts Center, after a run at the Adventure Theatre in Glen Echo Park.

Washington City Paper

Home of the Grave
A musical about an impending execution. Plus: Synetic gets Bizet!

Curtain Calls
Reviewed: Measure for Pleasure

Philadelphia Inquirer

It's a new stage for a neighborhood
Michelle Pauls, of Fishtown's Walking Fish Theatre, has to return some buffet pans to the Memphis Taproom. The recently opened gastro-pub catered her theater's May 17 post-Trenton Avenue Arts Festival party, and she's still pretty excited.

Philadelphia City Paper

Trouble Town
The Arden's Our Town revival is overwrought.

Wrong Division
The well-acted House, Divided is bogged down by cliché.

African Queen
PLTC cranks out a gem of a personal drama.

Philadelphia Weekly

Stage
Our Town at the Arden, and PTC’s The Happiness Lecture.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Stage Review: Broadway stars sizzle in 'Color Purple'
The musical of "The Color Purple" movingly captures the spirit, both human and divine, of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and Steven Spielberg's popular film. ...

Stage Preview: Production of 'Take Me Out' swings for the seats
Patrick Jordan looks excited and tired, the way he might while battling the "hands down" most elaborate production in the six years of ...

In the Wings: Extension confirmed
It took a while to get everyone on the same page, but all lights are now go for a one-week extension of Pittsburgh Playwrights' very fine version of August Wilson's "Two ...

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Strong cast leads powerful 'Color Purple'
It's a thoroughly well-supported and well-acted production that honors the spirit and intent of Alice Walker's classic 1983 novel while downplaying some of the more graphic and violent excesses of Steven Spielberg's 1985 film.

Flatwoods serves up tea, mystery with 'Mousetrap'
Flatwoods Productions serves up a classic British whodunit and high tea complete with scones and other proper English desserts for its first production of the summer season.

Baltimore Sun

Play's dark themes offer a chilling, riveting 'Visit'
The Visit takes us to a place that is dark and cold and odd. Our shoulders tense and we hug our arms to our sides, and the sound coming out of our mouths is somewhere between a laugh and a gasp.

Boston Globe

A happy camper? Not this time.
Eddie Mekka and Sally Struthers star in "Fiddler on the Roof" at the Ogunquit Playhouse. Like so many madcap adventures, this one proved more amusing in the anticipation than in the experience itself.

Boston Phoenix

Sleeping with the enemy
Tennessee Williams’s Milk Train stops in Hartford

Providence Journal

David Eliet’s new musical has Cossacks, witches, vodka
David Eliet’s new musical, The Tsarina’s Booties, is a Russian tale through and through, a story about a blacksmith who sets out to win the hand of a vain village beauty. It’s got a witch, a devil, crazy Cossacks and no shortage of vodka. The Cossacks, in fact, sing the praises of the drink at one point.

Grease tickets on sale Sunday

Providence Phoenix

Stridin’ with Fats
Ain’t Misbehavin’ by the Sea Long live Theatre by the Sea! The shuttered Matunuck barn theater is open for business after being dark for four summers.

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