Tuesday, July 1, 2008

ATW NewsClips - National, Industry Pubs

Reuters

Provocative "Candide" hits London, divides critics
A provocative production of Leonard Bernstein's musical "Candide" has come to London and sharply divided the critics

Back Stage

A Midsummer Night's Dream (Dog Run Rep)
Dog Run Rep has done its best to make Shakespeare Accessible and Relevant.

Karen Oberlin: The Wizard of Words: The Wit and Wisdom of Yip Harburg reviewed by David Finkle
Concentrating on the lyrics of E.Y. Harburg, Karen Oberlin encountered two obstacles -- one of her own devising and one inevitable.

Variety

Barbour to reprise 'Two Cities' role
Lazar, Edelman, Burkhardt, Earley join cast

Review: The School for Scandal
The vast bucolic splendor of the Topanga Canyon-based Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum does not exude the proper aura for the drawing room gossip-and-slander shenanigans of scripter Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy-of-manners masterpiece, "The School for Scandal." To her credit, helmer Ellen Geer manages to contain the environment while marshaling the varying talents of a large ensemble through Sheridan's devastatingly witty sendup of late-18th-century London society.

Review: They're Just Like Us
In the Internet age, people are not satisfied with the 15 minutes of fame once promised us all by Andy Warhol. Boo Killebrew's comedy/drama "They're Just Like Us" examines the banal desire to be known and approved of by the world -- 24/7 -- and the accompanying schadenfreude

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