Monday, June 30, 2008

ATW NewsClips - Tri-State Print


New York Times

So, How Would You Like Your Culture Clash? Joke-Filled or Sugar-Glazed?
Tracy Letts’s “August: Osage County” is a full theatrical meal. His new play, “Superior Donuts,” is a much less ambitious repast.

Chicago Shows, Going and Coming
“Adding Machine” is closing and “The Strangerer” is opening.

Jozef Szajna, 86, Writer of Quiet Protest in Poland, Dies
...a Polish playwright, set designer and theater director who through often nearly wordless...

New York Post

In the end, 'Palace' just isn't a very big deal
most shocking thing about Judith Thomp son's "Palace of the End," about the horrors of the Iraqi war, is how not shocking it is. The play is a triptych of monologues inspired by three real-life figures: Lynndie ...

New York Sun

Lincoln Center Festival Lights Up
The Lincoln Center Festival, which starts Wednesday, has done a bit of a juggling act this year. Ongoing renovations ruled out the New York State Theater and Alice Tully Hall, while Avery Fisher Hall is operational for only one week of the festival's…

Lincoln Center's Face-lift

The New Yorker

Hilton Als: Off Broadway takes on war, gender, and race.

Star-Ledger

Irish drama looks unflinchingly at aging
With talk of aging, bed-wetting and broken hips, "The Way You Look Tonight" is not, to be frank, standard summer entertainment. What it is, though, is an honest and well-written play that's getting an impressive production at Shadow Lawn Stage.

Albany Times-Union

Many well-cast clowns add 'Ladies Man' chaos
Hercule Molineaux is not home. His bed is empty. And his wife -- his young, pretty wife -- is sitting at the breakfast table wondering where he could be. ..."The Ladies Man" is a fun, five-door farce freely adapted from Feydeau. Alliterations abound. Identities are mistaken. And entendres are doubled.

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