Friday, June 6, 2008

ATW NewsClips - Mid-West, Southwest and Mountain Print

Chicago Tribune

Light Opera Works toasts the bubbly 'Gigi'; intimate treatment for 'Full Monty'

Chicago Tribune - Theater Loop Blog

David Schwimmer will play Lookinglass lead in 'Our Town'

Stephen Sondheim's 'Bounce' to bounce again

"Our Town" to return in the fall

Chicago Sun-Times

Oh, Danny boy!
Kaye musical taps into the many layers of multifaceted performer

Lookingglass 'Our Town' to be reunion of 'friends'

Writers' Theatre makes 'Lion' roar

Time Out Chicago Blog

Our Town (Also Cromer’s “Town” and Schwimmer’s “Town”)

Daily Herald

Elegant 'Wit' shows toll of cancer
Vivian Bearing personifies our greatest fears. Solitude. Pain. Death. Diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer, the ...

Falling out with theater leads to another
Change happens. And that's not always bad. Just ask Downers Grove-based Ray Frewen, director of "A Bench in the Sun," opening Saturday at Highland Park's Apple Tree Theatre

Theater news

Minneapolis Star-Tribune

OnStage: Lorca goes WILDE
A director brings nuanced, magical vision to a nuanced, magical play.

Encore Michigan

Nuns go country & western
Meadow Brook Theatre is currently serving up the second scoop of Nunsense double dip. Nunsense Jamboree is being presented for a short two-week ....

Making homelessness ever so homey
Moonshine Alley by Peter Campbell, a world premiere at Detroit Repertory Theatre, is a rather charming and sometimes witty play about a couple of comfortably pleasing ....

Il s'agit toujours du lapin
Literary types can have a field day with Paula Vogel's The Baltimore Waltz, now in production at the Blackbird Theatre. One of my favorite theses is that every good comedy is about something ...

Sex, love, risks and laughs at The Ringwald
As gay men buried more and more of their friends and lovers who succumbed to AIDS in the late 1980s and early '90s, playwright Paul Rudnick....

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Review: 'Thoroughly Modern Millie'

Cincinnati Enquirer

'Parenting' appears on Fringe frontline
Trust show creators Richard Oberacker and Rob Taylor to take the national pulse on parenting and come up with a song cycle for today.

Dallas Morning News

National tour of 'The Drowsy Chaperone' charms
Fret that they don't make comedies like they used to? The Drowsy Chaperone will ease your pain. And give you a laugh or two.

Eddie Izzard dives deep at the Majestic Theatre
"I thought I'd talk about everything that's ever happened tonight."

'Gilligan's Island' musical short on entertainment
I'll bet you never realized that Gilligan's Island was an allegory about world peace.

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Tony winner brings Broadway to cozy venue

The livin' is easy, so enjoy the show -- onstage and in the galleries

The Oldest Living Graduate, Bloodletters
Two plays opening in Dallas this week have a common bond: Tom Sime. The former Dallas Morning News theater critic -- who became producer for Contemporary Theatre of Dallas ...

Houston Press

Too many texters: Are rude patrons destroying the theater experience?

Denver Post

Dinner theater gets new shine in Johnstown

Aw, shucks, go see "Will Rogers Follies"

Rocky Mountain News

BORNSTEIN: Littleton theater steps boldly

Otherworldly air elevates 'Arturo'

Daily Camera

Review: 'God's Favorite'
Rarely produced plays by prolific and popular playwrights should come with a red flag attached to their covers. There's usually a reason they are left dormant. They're not very good.

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