Thursday, June 12, 2008

ATW NewsClips - Mid-West, Southwest and Mountain Print

Chicago Tribune

Steve Johnson: Hypertext: Theater of the search: 'User 927'
Are you what you search? And should you be more careful?

Tuneful 'Gigi' keeps it light

Chicago Tribune - Theater Loop Blog

Apple Tree Theatre to re-stage Chicago's legendary 'Wings'
As the centerpiece of a surprisingly ambitious 2008-9 season, the seemingly (and happily) renascent Apple Tree Theatre in Highland Park will stage the musical version of Arthur Kopit's "Wings," with book and lyrics by Arthur Perlman and music by Jeffrey...

Compagnie Transe Express and a new theater in Lake Geneva
The French performance group Compagnie Transe Express will create a free outdoor spectacle in Gateway Park at Navy Pier on July 11 and 12. Entitled “Maudits Sonnants,” the hour-long piece will feature a “human carillon” suspended 200 feet up in...

'August' tour is official, headed back to Chicago
As previously noted here, "August: Osage County" is going out on the road next fall. On Wednesday, the official announcement came that the tour will kick off in San Francisco in August of 2009. I've been told that the tour...

Chicago Sun-Times

'Algren' captures city's gritty magic
Memo to all those involved in promoting Chicago as a global tourist destination: Forget about the standard video portrait of the city, filled with generic ...

Time Out Chicago

August occasion
Osage County scribe and likely Tony winner Tracy Letts readies his Steppenwolf follow-up.

This one goes out to the ladies
Chicago's stake in this Sunday's Tony Awards is all about the women, from nominees Rondi Reed and Amy Morton (above) to preannounced winner Barbara Gaines.

Review: Nelson Algren: For Keeps and a Single Day @ Lookingglass Theatre
Review: Jekyll & Hyde @ Bohemian Theatre Ensemble
Review: Jacques Brel's Lonesome Losers of the Night @ Theo Ubique
Review: The Lion in Winter @ Writers’ Theatre
Review: The Kid from Brooklyn @ Mercury Theatre
Review: 4Play @ 13Carat Productions
Review: Wit @ The Gift Theatre
Review: Psalms of a Questionable Nature @ Riverdell Theatre Ensemble
Review: North @ The
Review: Rainy Day People at The Laboratory Theatre Project

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

Wisconsin roots take center stage
When Mark Rylance talks about the people who influenced his Tony-nominated performance in Broadway’s “Boeing-Boeing,” he cites master actors such as Art Carney and Kabuki legend Ennosuke Ichikawa III.

St. Louis Riverfront Times

Under the Small Top: Circus Flora is in town — and that's always a good thing
In search of an evening of thrills and chills, low comedy and high suspense? All those larger-than-life emotions that theater is supposed to...

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Louisville Courier-Journal

Mysteries on the Ohio
Point a detective's magnifying glass at the schedule for the 2008 International Mystery Writers' Festival in Owensboro and the evidence suggests that this year's extravaganza is an extraordinarily rich and varied ....

Cleveland Plain-Dealer

'Cubby Bernstein' a clever online promo for the show 'Xanadu'
With the Tony Awards on Sunday night, it's an appropriate time to check out "Cubby Bernstein," a pre-Tonys promo for the show "Xanadu" that's cleverly disguised as (or also is) a funny mockumentary series about a kid billed as ...

Cincinnati City Beat

Curtain Call: Tying Up the Fringe

Houston Press

Capsule Stage Reviews
bare, Big Range Dance Festival, Electile Dysfunction, La Sylphide and A Doll's House, Present Laughter, The Splasher

Austin American-Statesman

Review: 'Love, Janis' at the Long Center

Denver Post

Drama an appeal to real Christian values

Rocky Mountain News

Performing arts groups challenged to push envelope

Where do we go from here? Nearly 4,000 artists and arts administrators are trying to figure that out this week at the National Performing Arts Convention.

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