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Chicago Tribune

'Bloody Bess' is a bloody blast
"Bloody Bess: A Tale of Piracy and Revenge" gets a highly entertaining resuscitation from BackStage Theatre Company. Not all the dialogue is understandable once the swords start clanging, but poetry isn't the point here.

'Gutenberg' has go-getter producer

'Relatively Close' at Victory Gardens has its seasonal pleasures

Walkabout fails to make connection with its environs in 'War Garden'

Chicago Tribune Theater Loop Blog

Hollis Resnik to the 'Grey Gardens'
Hollis Resnik, I hear, has landed one of the plumb roles of the 2008-9 Chicago season--that of "Little" Edie Beale (and, in Act One, her mother) in Northlight Theatre's November production of "Grey Gardens." That's the quixotic but beguiling 2006-7...

Barbara Gaines on 'Downstage Center'
Barbara Gaines, the artistic director of Chicago Shakespeare Theater, is the guest Friday on "Downstage Center" on XM satellite radio. The interview is slated to be broadcast at 5 p.m., Chicago time. Dial up Channel 28, a.k.a. "On Broadway." It...

Terry Kinney to direct on Broadway
We already known the Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble will be represented on Broadway next season. Even though the next Tracy Letts play has yet to open. The Broadway producer Jeffrey Richards (the lead producer of "August: Osage County") announced today that...

Time Out Chicago

Deadpan’s labyrinth
Strange Tree Group makes murder fun again.

Spotlight on...Scott McPherson
The Marvin's Room playwright's "lost" play gets found by a North Shore theater company.

Spotlight on...BackStage Theatre Company
The eight-year-old storefront group has quietly moved to the forefront.

Review: War Garden @ Walkabout Theater Company & NeighborSpace
Review: Cirque Shanghai Gold
Review: Dante Dies!! (and then things get weird) @ Sideshow Theatre Company
Review: ’Til the Fat Lady Sings @ Citadel Theatre Company

Detroit Free Press

Jeff Daniels goes west
It seems like it would be a perfect fit, but in 25 years of making movies, Jeff Daniels has never played a cowboy. "Every actor wants to get on a ...

Cleveland Plain Dealer Onstage Blog

'Jersey Boys' begins performances Wedneseday night at Playhouse Square's State Theatre

Cleveland actor Asante Jones goes World Wide (Web) for Toyota ad campaign

Cleveland Scene

Anything Goes, Cole Porter’s shipboard romp, gets first-class treatment at Porthouse Theatre

Family troubles are dredged up, one by one, in Ensemble’s The Carpetbagger’s Children

Capsule reviews of current area theater presentations

Dallas Morning News Over the Top Blog

Miranda celebrating

Tony winners to work at Dallas Opera in new hall

Coen returns to Atlantic Theatre Company

Houston Chronicle

Mindless Fun
Sitcom classic Gilligan's Island has been in syndication for so long, it's a shock to realize that it ran on CBS for only three seasons, 1964...

Capsule Stage Reviews: bare, Electile Dysfunction, Present Laughter

Austin American-Statesman

'Pirates' plunders laughs
Carol Brown, left, Holton Johnson and David Fontenot will have swords at the ready for a run of 'Pirates of Penzance.'

Denver Post

Gerimal throws farce into "Reverse"

'Sweeney' sharp, for those who know it

Rocky Mountain News

'Sweeney Todd' succeeds in bare-bones version
There's always been a little something off about Sweeney Todd, the demon barber who uses his razor for vengeance, so setting the show in a madhouse is a natural step.