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Mistress Marguerite, Plucky Eliza Romp on London Stages: Warwick Thompson
A Louis XV Parisian drawing room becomes a poky garret within a blink. A chic nightclub turns into a railway station. The transformations in Paul Brown's sets for the London musical ``Marguerite'' are a joy to behold.
Variety
Douglas Theater digs 'Bengal Tiger'
Play to premiere during 2008-09 season
'Bronx Tale' moves to L.A.
Chazz Palminteri takes play to Wadsworth
Broadway box office holding steady
Tonys continue to fuel sales
Review: Prisoner of the Crown @ Irish Rep
Treason! But not really! That's the focus of Richard Stockton's mistakenly impassioned "Prisoner of the Crown," in which the villainous English persecute nobleman Richard Casement, a champion of the oppressed -- first the Congolese who suffered under Belgium's monstrous Leopold II, and then the Irish Republicans who rebelled against the Brits. Casement is an undeniably fascinating figure, but "Prisoner" lovingly (and selectively) details what must be the least interesting part of his life.
Review: Taking Steps @ South Coast Rep
Not a sex farce or even a want-to-have-sex farce, Alan Ayckbourn's 1979 "Taking Steps" is a "want to realize my full potential" farce bursting with need and self-absorption. Cannily recognizing a distinctively '70s brand of "Free to Be You and Me" cant running through the daffy proceedings, helmer Art Manke ladles a tasty gravy of disco and polyester over his briskly cheerful South Coast Rep production.
Review: She Loves Me @ the Huntington Theatre
There's a sense of sweet desperation among the characters who work at Maraczek's Parfumerie in Bock and Harnick's "She Loves Me," which is getting a valentine of a production from Huntington Theater Company, marking helmer and artistic director Nicholas Martin's Beantown swan song. The show will have an extended life when it follows its Boston run with a stint at Williamstown Theater Festival, where Martin launches his first season as the new a.d.
Back Stage
Blink reviewed by Ronni Reich
Ian Rowlands' Blink never feels entirely new. Though a portrayal of the effects of child abuse is hardly as much of a standby storyline as betrayal or coming of age, it's no revelation that victims' suffering is real.
Great Small Works' Eighth International Toy Theater Festival by Jerry Portwood
Puppet performances often attract peculiar audiences, and toy theater — a form of puppet storytelling that traditionally involved miniature paper cutouts — seems especially prone to gatherings of eccentric connoisseurs of luddite art.
How Theater Failed America reviewed by David Sheward
News flash: The American theatre is in a terrible state. What? You already knew that? But do you know how it got that way and what, if anything, can be done about it?
Marathon 2008 Series reviewed by Gwen Orel
B Note to playwrights: a situation is not a plot. Plays without plot are essentially undramatic — nothing's at stake.
The Witlings reviewed by Gwen Orel
Meddling old women, gossipy bubbleheads, and pompous pretenders will always be with us. So long as the follies of humankind cross cultures and continents, good satire will be eternal.
Financial Times
Top Girls, Biltmore Theatre, New York
With its echoes of Judy Chicago’s ur-feminist installation ‘The Dinner Party’, the opening scene introduces elements of a grand fantasia, writes Brendan Lemon
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