Chicago Tribune
Bard gets a fun and bawdy remix in 'Funk It Up'
Chicago Shakespeare's "Funk It Up About Nothin' " is an R-rated attraction from start to finish. For example, the moment where the evil Don John deludes Claudio into thinking his virginal Hero is untrue is rendered in full-frontal glory with the help of a blow-up sex doll. Trashy? Perhaps. Thematically inventive? Most certainly.
Video: Beat-box Bard - New hip-hop show at Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Chicago Tribune Theater Loop Blog
The Hypocrites to produce its first musical..and reprise "Our Town"
The Hyprocrites will produce its first musical during the 2008-9 season. Artistic director Sean Graney will direct Bertolt Brecht's "The Threepenny Opera," beginning Sept. 2. Just to recap what else is on tap next year: The remount of David Cromer's...
Time Out Chicago
Review: Gutenberg! The Musical! @ Royal George Theatre
Review: Kooza @ Cirque du Soleil
Review: Woody Guthrie’s American Song @ Blindfaith Theatre
Review: Six Characters in Search of an Author @ Promethean Theatre Ensemble
Review: Questa @ People's Theater of Chicago
Review: Unwrap Your Candy @ Breadbasket Productions
Spotlight on...Gutenberg! The Musical!
Creators Scott Brown and Anthony King talk about writing the worst musical ever—on purpose.
Minneapolis City Pages
Final Act
Jeune Lune's artistic director discusses the renowned theater company's demise
Review: The Count of Monte Cristo
When the proverbial ship comes in to Marseilles in the opening scene of The Count of Monte Cristo, big changes are in store for our hero and...
Detroit Free Press
Outlaw gets justice in an odd, funny 'Panhandle Slim'
The setup is deceptively simple: Bleeding from the gut and left for dead in the desert, outlaw Panhandle Slim (Tom Whalen) must suffer the irritating cheeriness of the Oklahoma Kid (John Seibert), a singing cowboy who rides by seemingly by chance.
Encore Michigan
Detroit Repertory Theatre announces a season of challenge
St. Louis Riverfront Times
Dennis Doesn't Write the Headlines
RFT theater critic sets the record — and Shakespeare Festival St. Louis — straight.
St. Louis Stage Capsules
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Staging plan would link PlayhouseSquare's Allen Theatre, CSU drama program
Roaring '20s movie palace. Pot-hazy '70s rock dive. Eighties wrecking-ball bait. Restored jewel, 1998. Largely empty since.
Cleveland Scene
Everyone’s falling in love in Two Gentlemen of Verona, at the Ohio Shakespeare Festival
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, at the Cleveland Shakespeare Festival, offers a humorous take on philosophy and mortality
Capsule reviews of current area theater presentations
Cincinnati CityBeat
CEA Theater Voting Begins
Vote for the winners in 12 categories, celebrating the 2007-08 theater season in Greater Cincinnati. Deadline is Monday, August 4.
All Over the Map
Several Cincinnati theaters contributed to a great 2007-08 season.
Dallas Morning News
'High School Musical' the class favorite at Fair Park Music Hall
Whatever its artistic merits, Disney's High School Musical has accomplished something possibly never before witnessed at the Music Hall at Fair Park: throngs of children and teens lined up, giddy with excitement over live theater . We're talking jumping up and down with glee.
Houston Press
The Great Waller: Ain't Misbehavin'
By day, Thomas "Fats" Waller sold beboppy tunes on Tin Pan Alley. Come nighttime, when all the cool cats were out on the prowl, the jazz great...
Capsule Stage Reviews: Electile Dysfunction, Snoopy, The Tamarie Cooper Show
Denver Post
"Woody Guthrie" gets powerful staging in Boulder
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