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'Ain't Misbehavin'' kicks up its heels at the Goodman
THEATER REVIEW: "Ain't Misbehavin'" runs through Aug. 3 at Goodman Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn St.; Running time: 2 hours; Tickets: $23-$78 at 312-443-3800 and www.goodmantheatre.org. With Alexis Rogers and Parrish Collier. The Fats Waller revue “Ain’t Misbehavin’” played Broadway 1,604...

Chicago Sun-Times

Goodman's 'Misbehavin' ' is big and bold spectacle
It has been 30 years since a little cabaret revue called "Ain't Misbehavin'" made the leap to Broadway, ran for more than 1,600 performances and catapulted five performers (including Nell Carter) to stardom.

Brown going 'Dancing' here

Time Out Chicago Blog

Superior? Nah, but still pretty great.
It isn’t really fair to call Steppenwolf’s 2008 Tracy Letts season-closer, Superior Donuts, a follow-up to the company’s 2007 Tracy Letts season-closer August: Osage County; Donuts was announced as part of Steppenwolf’s lineup months before August opened...

Daily Herald

Language takes "Ragtime" out of park setting

Ann Arbor News

Charm, humor, pathos: Daniels' new play has it all Western uses dialog, archetypes deftly to deliver its message
You're a mean, nasty varmint who's done his share of killing. And now you've had your comeuppance. You've been shot, hog-tied and dumped to die on the prairie. At least, you think, your woes will soon be over. Not so fast there, pardner.

Roundness of characters lifts PN's 'The Little Dog' Schultz's PN directing debut is admirably paced Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness - and a bed on a dais, hooped by a red-carpeted runway - sit center stage in Douglas Carter Beane's sharp comedy of Hollywood and sexual manners, "The Little Dog Laughed,'' which opened at Performance Network on Friday evening.

Cincinnati CityBeat

Review: Jerry Springer: The Opera

Dallas Morning News

'High School Musical' conquers TV, concerts, ice shows and now stage
High School Musical, which opens Wednesday at Fair Park Music Hall, has touched a chord in kids and made a phenomenon of this Romeo and Juliet-tinged tale about a whiz-kid girl and boy jock who buck their respective cliques ...

Denver Post

Arvada Center lands big-name Valjean
The Arvada Center's upcoming production of "Les Miserables" features an almost entirely local, 29-person cast, save for the name at the top of the list, and it's a big one: Randal Keith, ...