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Chicago Tribune

Editorial: 'We need to get out of the way'
Imagine Frankie Valli and the boys, standing on a Jersey street corner, smacking their Nicorette gum. It just wouldn't be the same. But the Jersey Boys have been forced to stub out their cigarettes onstage, thanks to Chicago's smoking ban.

Chicago Sun-Times

Smoking ban exemption faces 2-stage fight

Alderman wants to keep 'Jersey Boys' smoking

Time Out Chicago

Milly's Orchid Show
Milly May Smithy, maven of miscellany, pops up at Park West on Jul 19.

Review: Funk It Up About Nothin’ @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Review: Ain’t Misbehavin’ @ Goodman Theatre
Review: Termen Vox Machina @ Oracle Productions
Review: Ren Faire! A Fistful of Ducats @ The Factory Theater
Review: Tick, Tick…Boom! @ The Journeymen
Review: Still Photos @ Point of Contention
Review: Lesbians Who Kill @ Bailiwick Repertory
Review: Hay Fever @ Circle Theatre

Minneapolis City Pages

Open Eye's Driveway Tour: Move the car, start the show
Though Open Eye Figure Theatre's Driveway Tour is in its sixth year, when asked for a signature memory of the company's urban performance series,...

Theater Spotlight: Mom's the Word
When I took my seat before Mom's the Word, I said hello to a couple of very kind-seeming ladies sitting next to me. "So," one of them asked me....

Encore Michigan

Dog Story Theater announces 2008-09 season
Dog Story Theater will open the doors to its brand new black box theater August 14 with David Mamet's Boston Marriage. This fast-paced comedy filled with Mamet's sharp dialogue and impeccable plotting will be the first show in Dog Story Theater's 2008/2009 season

Cleveland Plain Dealer Onstage Blog

New videos: "Grease" at Cassidy and "Singin' in the Rain" at Olmsted Performing Arts

Cleveland Scene

Wonderlong
Porthouse's Alice captures the imagination, but then just keeps going.

Capsule reviews of current area theater presentations

Cincinnati Enquirer

New Edgecliff sets season
You'll probably want to be along for the ride as New Edgecliff Theatre continues to create its distinct signature in the 2008-2009 Cincinnati theater scene.

Cincinnati CityBeat

Curtain Call: Theaters, Actors, Etc.
Recognizing Good Theater

Dallas Morning News

Broadway's Betty Buckley creates worlds in song and verse
Betty Buckley always ends her concerts with her signature song from Cats , "Memory." On Wednesday she gave Lyric Stage's audience her entire memoirs.

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Down-home divadom? Buckley makes it work
With One Look, Betty Buckley transports her audience to places as large as the most expansive stage and as intimate as a front porch.

Houston Press

Nova Arts Project's ambitious War of the Roses actually works
Audacity, thy name is Nova Arts Project. For its epic cycle of Shakespearean history plays War of the Roses, this feisty young theater

Capsule Stage Reviews: Ain't Misbehavin', Electile Dysfunction, Smoke on the Mountain: Homecoming, Snoopy, The Tamarie Cooper Show

Denver Post

"Honus" cliched. but a home run to audiences

Rocky Mountain News

'End' a Curious experiment
...at Curious Theatre Company, which is staging the new play End Days as both a summer fundraiser and an opportunity for company members to wear different hats.