ATW NewsClips - Mid-West, Southwest and Mountain Print

Chicago Tribune

Barbara Cook at Ravinia: How did she sound?

Obituary: Blake Anderson 1946 ~ 2008
Longtime actor parlayed his creative nature into a behind-the-scenes business

Chicago Sun-Times

Up, up and away with 'Hourglass'
Superhero stories are invariably action-driven. That clearly makes dance the ideal art form to be employed by anyone hoping to give such tales a third dimension. And this is precisely what choreographer Mark Yonally has done in "The Hourglass and the Poisoned Pen," his full-length "superhero tap dance opera," ...

City's smoking ban forces 'Jersey Boys' to kick the habit

Daily Herald

'Ad-rap-tation' adds plenty of funk to Bard's 'Much Ado'

Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Shakespeare with a beer?
A play that crams 37 shortened versions of Shkspr's gr8est works into 97 mins. is drwing increasingly big crowds 2 to the lawn at Brit's Pub in Mpls.

Detroit Free Press

Reading of new Carey Crim play in Ann Arbor
Slated to premiere in 2009, Carey Crim's new play is about a mortician suffering from agoraphobia.

Louisville Courier Journal

Adversity gives 'Gift of Music'
Julie Andrews' 50-year-plus career arc is a prime example of how to make adversity work in your favor. Andrews, the first “My Fair Lady,” will appear with the Louisville Orchestra Friday night

Cleveland Plain Dealer

Harbinger Records, Musical Theater Project release unique Richard Rodgers CD
Oh, to have heard Mozart play his piano con certos or Beethoven interpret his piano sona tas. Sound recordings, alas, didn't arrive until the years following Thomas Edison's invention of the phonographic cylinder in 1877.

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

'Q' up for this puppet-powered musical at Bass Hall

'Q' writer enjoys the ride
Jeff Whitty

Denver Post

Denver Center, "Urinetown" on Henrys highs
The Denver Center Theatre Company won seven of the Colorado Theatre Guild's 2008 Henry Awards on Monday, including best season by a company and triple honors for "Lydia" as best play, best new play and outstanding ensemble performance.

Rocky Mountain News

Denver Center Theatre Company wins critics' 'best season' honor

Daily Camera

Boulder theaters wind up empty handed at Henry Awards
Twenty-five awards were given out to area theater artists Monday night at the Town Hall Arts Center in Littleton during the Colorado Theatre Guild’s third annual Henry Awards ceremony.

Collins: Boulder's Dinner Theatre gets satirical with new show