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Washington City Paper

Of Fringe Facts and Absent Friends
Kicking off our online coverage of the Capital Fringe Festival.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

'Seinfeld' writer collects memories that show the funny side of life
Pat Hazell is in a great position to celebrate pop culture
* Photos: 'The Wonder Bread Years'

Ensemble outshines the star in CLO's 'Mame'
"Life is a banquet," says Auntie Mame, "and most poor [s.o.b.'s] are starving to death." Rather than risk that, she meets life with gusto galore. ...

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Comedian relives 'Wonder Bread Years'
Creator Pat Hazell's City Theatre production salutes the baby boomer era with its memories of spending Thanksgivings at the kids table.

'Smokey Joe's Cafe' highlights songwriting team
For too many years, Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller were the songwriting team that everyone loved and no one recognized. They were the guys who wrote and composed 1950s and '60s chart-toppers that included "Hound Dog," "Love Potion No. 9" and "Yakety Yak."

A tentative Mame makes for a disappointing 'Mame'
Whether you first met Auntie Mame in the book, the movie or the musical, she's someone you love for her flamboyance, her self-assurance, her principles and her zest for living life to the fullest. Unfortunately, Michele Lee exhibits none of those attributes.

Apple Hill players perform the '80s hit 'Footloose'
Michael Rozell, the vocal music teacher at Belle Vernon Area High School, is directing the Apple Hill Playhouse production of "Footloose." He also serves as vocal and orchestra conductor.

Family performs together in Flatwood's 'Secret Garden'
A touching children's story first published a century ago is retold on the stage in Flatwoods Productions' musical version of "The Secret Garden."

Baltimore Sun

Staging 'The Gondoliers'

Boston Globe

A smartly written, unsettling theatrical sampler in Wellfleet
"Shortstack," a new collection of six short plays by Rolin Jones, comes in two flavors: weirdly slight and more than slightly weird.

Boston Phoenix

Twisted love song
Gloucester riffs on Enigma Variations

Providence Journal

Steel workers will strip in West Kingston
If you missed the touring production of The Full Monty at the Providence Performing Arts Center four years ago, you can catch a home-grown version of the popular show about a band of laid-off steel workers who take up stripping this weekend at West Kingston’s Courthouse Center for the Arts.

Providence Phoenix

Summer stock
The pleasantly diverting Beaux’ Strategem
The 2nd Story troupe roasts all of the chestnuts here in fine style, clichéd characters deliciously recognizable.

Berkshire Eagle

A rocky road to fame, glory
On the surface, Matthew Wilkas and Mark Setlock's intermittently funny "Pageant Play" — which is having its world premiere at Berkshire Theatre Festival's Unicorn Theatre — is about the world of child beauty pageants. In fact, it is about so much more.

Portland Phoenix

Tasty bites
Seacoast puts on a Horror show
Kevin Hauge directs a production that’s fun, sharp, and well-appointed, if a touch shy on camp, for Portsmouth’s Seacoast Repertory Theatre.

Sun Sentinel

Girls Night Out, The Musical is half-baked
It's hard to know whether Girls Night, The Musical seemed half-baked, underwhelming and only rarely entertaining because this reviewer is a curmudgeonly male or because it really was half-baked, underwhelming and only rarely entertaining.

'Why We Have a Body' spends too much time gazing at its navel
For a play that suggests a study of anatomy, Claire Chafee's Why We Have a Body is deliberately shapeless, and that's a problem for the Sol Theatre Project in Fort Lauderdale.

In 'Souvenir,' it takes a lot of skill to play a no-talent hack
Huzzah the no-talent squawker!

Atlanta Creative Loafing

Valetta Anderson looks for curb appeal
Atlanta playwright's Hallelujah Street Blues opens July 11 at Horizon Theatre

Charlotte Creative Loafing

Queens of the Midway
Plus, CPCC's one-two punch