Saturday, June 7, 2008

ATW NewsClips - Mid-Atlantic, New England, Mid-West, Southwest

Washington Post

At Rep Stage, A History Of Violence
Vietnam & Gulf War Atrocities Live On in 'Heart of America'

Philadelphia Inquirer

Albee pays homage to Nevelson
Hardly anybody saw Edward Albee's Occupant at Signature Theatre in 2002; its star, Anne Bancroft, fell ill during previews and the show never officially opened. So this reprise/premiere is a major event in a season filled with Albee ....

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

'Odd Couple' is textbook comedyThe Pittsburgh Public Theater's production of Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple" is a dependably funny comedy that offers frequent and abundant laughs. That's both its strength and its biggest flaw.

Boston Globe

Stages: Live from Williamstown

Chicago Tribune

Wegrzyn's 'Psalms of a Questionable Nature' dissolves into metaphor

Theater goes au naturale

Stage ticker

Chicago Tribune - Theater Loop Blog

Acrobatic Cirque Shanghai ups its game on Navy Pier this summer
Well, it took รข€™em three years, but Navy Pier finally has a summertime, family-oriented, international circus attraction of a quality that befits a city vying for the right to hold the Olympic Games. To the credit of the...

Chicago Sun-Times

Cirque Shanghai: Really neat feats

Rialto announces ’08-’09 Broadway season [in Joliet]

Daily Herald

Contrived 'First Breeze' fails to stir

'Gas for Less' touching story

Minneapolis Star-Tribune

'Our Town' learns to sing
The classic reverie on life in a small town takes on the histrionic needs of opera.

Pride Source (Michigan)

Theater: alive, well and sizzling in June

Ann Arbor News

A2CT farce truly is 'Funny' Cast has a great time with Sondheim's musical

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Millie's bob says a lot

Dallas Morning News

Playwright Zayd Dohrn breaking out of pack
The folks at Kitchen Dog Theater think Zayd Dohrn is about to break out of the pack as a playwright, beginning with the rolling world premiere of Sick currently playing at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary. If his plays get his name out there, though, it won't be anything new to him. He has been living his life in public from the start.

'Oldest Living Graduate' is wonderful play, wonderfully done
After 30-odd years, I remembered how funny The Oldest Living Graduate was. What I forgot is how touchingly poetic it is.

Arizona Republic

'Reefer Madness'
Nearly Naked Theatre serves up another round of show tunes for the counterculture with Reefer Madness. It tells how a single hit of marijuana turns innocent teenagers into hardened, insane criminals.

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