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The big Tony night: What will it do for Chicago theater?
Assuming you ignored the musicals, last Sunday night’s Tony Awards were a three-hour, national commercial for the glories of the Chicago theater. Instead of watching the customary likes of Vanessa Redgrave, Cherry Jones or Phylicia Rashad walk off with the...

Chicago Sun-Times

Cirque du Soleil: The art of the clown
All the world loves a clown, so the old song goes. Of course, to some people the very idea of a clown scares the bejeezus out of them. Maybe ....

Minneapolis Star-Tribune

True fiction? Invention to detail Playwright's license
Playwright Thomas Kilroy studied the questions raised by the gaps in history to create his mythic look at Constance and Oscar Wilde.

St. Paul Pioneer-Press

In debt, Jeune Lune will close
Barely three years after it received the Tony Award as the nation's outstanding regional playhouse, Theatre de la Jeune Lune is going dark.

The bout between Michelangelo and Nintendo was a fight to the finish
To paraphrase the old cliche about horses and water, you can lead people to culture, but you can't make them take it in.

Ann Arbor News

Like your history shrunk? RSC will do that for you
If you want to know who really discovered America, what's up with this year's presidential election or even how many Democrats it takes to screw in a light bulb, then the Reduced Shakespeare Company might just be the guys to tickle your funny bone.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Stage flight: Two troupes settle in, one moves on

Shakespeare's 'Wives' will frolic in the park next year

Playwright pays tribute to grandmother with 'Ladyhouse Blues'

Muny-goers are familiar with Tony winner

Louisville Courier-Journal

The full measure of the man
Staging the life of Abraham Lincoln, arguably the greatest U.S. president, is a challenge that the Kentucky Repertory Theatre embraces as its right and its duty.

Dallas Morning News

DCT pulls off jewel of a show with 'A Year with Frog and Toad'

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

A 'Python' primer: Fish-slaps, coconut claps and lumberjacks. 'Monty Python’s Spamalot’ is all that and much more.

Gary Beach is having a blast on 'Spamalot' tour

Denver Post

How "Macbeth" casts its moral witchcraft

"Censorship" squabble sours performing-arts convention' finale

A new "West Side Story"

Rocky Mountain News

CSF kicks of 2008 with 2009 season announcement

Daily Telegraph

Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Russians collaborate

CSF spelling lesson