Thursday, May 29, 2008

ATW NewsClips - Mid-West, Southwest and Mountain Print

Chicago Tribune

No 'High School Musical' kids in 'Chill'
In high school, every move is scrutinized and analyzed to determine social rank. Judging by the giddy success of Griffin Theatre's "Be More Chill," that premise still has legs...

Artistic Home's 'Juno' fills the house

Chicago Tribune - Theater Loop Blog

Wanna be in 'Mary Poppins'?

Chicago Sun-Times

Artistic Home team takes Bait
Couple stages a luminous 'Juno' in new space

Time Out Chicago

Ann Landers
Judith Ivey plays The Lady with All the Answers at Northlight.

Review: Avenue Q - Cadillac Palace Theatre
Review: The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Bailiwick Repertory Theatre
Review: Juno and the Paycock - The Artistic Home
Review: A Taste of Honey - Shattered Globe Theatre
Review: Boys & Girls - Theatre Seven of Chicago
Review: Lipstick Traces - Pavement Group
Review: Sweet Confinement - SiNNERMAN Ensemble
Review: Be More Chill - Griffin Theatre Company
Review: The Other Side of the Elephant - Curious Theatre Branch
Review: On the Verge, or the Geography of Yearning - Remy Bumppo Theatre Company
Review: Doubt - Redtwist Theatre

Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Goofy, irreverent 'Spamalot' is a show audiences will like a lot
The actors ham it up during this round of shows, as much fun as during last year's run here.

St. Paul Pioneer Press

'Spamalot' Wacky musical still inspires laughs a lot

Minneapolis City Pages

No Answer
The ambitious Q&A can't solve its unwieldy plot

Theater Spotlight: The Ugly One

Detroit Free Press

Five questions with Lee Meriwether, Miss America 1955 and Catwoman

Ann Arbor News

'Baltimore Waltz' so funny you could easily cry

St. Louis Riverfront Times

Richard the Turd: Beware the company that dares to stage The Tragedy of King Richard III
I have never seen an audience quit a show so readily. When, midway through the opening night performance of The Tragedy of King Richard III, the...

St. Louis Stage Capsules
The Tale of the Allergist's Wife The pretentious art museum-opening, foreign movie-going, existentialist novel-reading world of our heroine...

Cleveland Scene

In Cleveland Public Theatre’s Two Plays by Gao Xingjian, the exiled playwright stretches your mind
If you ponied up for a fitness club only to find it was equipped with a one-pound dumbbell and a jump rope, you'd demand a refund. When it comes to...

The cards are marked, but the enjoyment is real in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s The Gamblers.
If the very thought of attending a play written by the 19th century's "father of modern Russian realism" fills you with dread, fret not: This...

Capsule reviews of current area theater presentations

Cincinnati Enquirer

Out-of-towners kick off Fringe
The fifth Cincinnati Fringe Festival opened strongly Wednesday night with a couple of enjoyable entries from Minnesota and Canada.

Shape of things to come
Ah, Cincinnati Fringe Festival, where absolutely everything is new; productions, venues, even some of the performers. This "new" is a 10-year-old company facing an unknown audience.

Cincinnati City Beat

Curtain Call: Show Up
In case you need another heads-up about the Cincinnati Fringe Festival, I urge you to drop in between now and June 7

Dallas Morning News

Which musical will prevail at Tonys, 'In the Heights' or 'Passing Strange'?

Charm carries lightweight 'A Texas Romance,' but it lacks psychological nuance

Houston Press

Isn't It a Pity: The Gershwins' An American in Paris
The Alley Theatre presents a plodding world premiere

Capsule Stage Reviews: The Drowsy Chaperone, The Heiress, Mr. Marmalade, Present Laughter, Time of My Life, The Vagina Monologues

Denver Post

Palminteri brings "A Bronx Tale" to Denver in 2009

Hitler as '30s Chicago gangster

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