Associated Press
'Chorus Line' sets an August Broadway closing date
Audrey Hepburn's ex, director Mel Ferrer, dies
'Saved' is a modest, mild-mannered little musical
Back Stage
Karen Akers: Move On reviewed by David Finkle
Long-term Akers lovers will admire her guts, cheer her on, and probably sympathize with her seeming predicament; others may conclude they'd prefer her to move on.
Saved reviewed by Andy Propst
Though amiable and occasionally moving, Saved is more often than not a frustrating affair.
Teresa Fischer: I Want to Make the World Laugh! reviewed by David Finkle
Fischer is not a naturally funny woman. She's a smiling woman and smiles through just about everything she sings, but she's not funny.
This Is a Cowboy Poem My Daddy Taught Me reviewed by Christopher Murray
An excessive reliance on monologues to express the characters' emotional states reveals the play to be incompletely dramatized, but heartfelt performances engage the audience's empathy.
Stomp and Shout (An' Work It All Out) reviewed by A.J. Mell
The play works beautifully when it sticks with the Alice in Wonderland-like adventures of two G-men as they pursue their incomprehensible quest.
Vicious Dogs on Premises reviewed by Paul Menard
Though this type of theatrical experiment is familiar territory for New York's avant-garde set, Vicious Dogs on Premises thankfully manages to skirt pretension.
Variety
'Chorus Line' loses its kick
Revival to close August 17
Turturro to direct 'Souls of Naples'
Actor set for movie adaptation of stage play
'Elliot' on the move
Sydney production takes show to Melbourne
Cast fills out for 'Americans Abroad'
Revival to star Tom Cavanagh, Anthony Rapp
Eileen Atkins to star in 'Species'
Actress set for Michell's West End production
'Castle' cast storms state legislature
Actor invited to perform by Sen. Tom Duane
Agent Toby Cole dies at 92
Ran New York's Actors and Authors Agency
Review: Saved
In press materials, Playwrights Horizons is careful to point out that the title of the 2004 indie movie that served as source material for its latest premiere bears an exclamation mark, but the title of the musical, "Saved," does not. That choice is representative of the more serious-minded approach taken by the show's creative team. Equal time is given to cheeky satire of evangelical Christian high-schoolers facing major dilemmas and to more soulful exploration of issues concerning faith, acceptance and nonjudgmental love. But despite its many disarming elements, divine intervention is needed if "Saved" is to deliver the uplifting experience it now provides only in fits and starts.
Review: Gas for Less @ Goodman Theatre
With gas prices and the travails of working-class America leading pretty much every newscast these days, could there be a more timely subject for a play than a family filling station shutting down because of rising fuel costs? But Brett Neveu's "Gas for Less," a meditative but frustratingly unrefined play premiering at the Goodman Theater in Chicago, focuses less on economics and more on the subject of change itself, as the denizens of a decaying business yearn for a time when a discount convenience store could survive more as a source of camaraderie than profit.
Bloomberg.com
Praise Jesus, Pass the Condoms -- `Saved' Aims for Broadway: Jeremy Gerard
Smoothly staged, impeccably cast and ferociously inoffensive, ``Saved'' clearly has Broadway in its sights, and I suppose Broadway could do worse.
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