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New York Times

Brian Murray Joins Play
Manhattan Theater Club said that Brian Murray would join the cast of its coming Broadway production of “To Be or Not to Be.”

New York Daily News

Alan Cumming heads a flashy 'Bacchae'
Alan Cumming brings a randy bad-boy edge to any role, and he's true to form as the vindictive wine god Dionysus in "The Bacchae," writes Daily News Theater Critic Joe Dziemianowicz.

amNY

Greek tragedy gets punk, German opera gets huge
Why is Santa Clause raping that poor young girl? Doesn't that Greek god look like Mick Jagger? These are just a few questions you'd ask yourself at the new productions of "The Bacchae" and "Die Soldaten"

Newsday

Appreciating playwright-humorist Christopher Durang

New York Post

Venetians Blind to merits of political art
War, love and more are treated in deceptively lighthearted fashion in "Scenes From an Execution," Howard Barker's play about a sexually liberated sixth-century Venetian artist who runs afoul of the authorities. That (fictional) artist is Galactia (the terrific Jan Maxwell), a high-spirited woman whose many lovers include a rival...

New York Sun

Town Hall Revives Broadway Festival

nypress

Sew in Love: Self-mutilation and rough sex are only the background for a relationship in crisis in ‘Stitching’

Star-Ledger

Olympian grandeur eludes Greek tragedy
Not yet three years old, National Theatre of Scot land made a smashing New York debut last fall with "Black Watch," its brilliantly realized docudrama about a historic Scot army regiment's experiences in Iraq.

'Private Lives,' public delight
First, the good news: Cape May Stage has beautifully renovated its Robert Shackleton Playhouse. Hard chairs on a flat floor have been replaced by plush new fold-up theater chairs in a stadium seating configuration. Everything's very handsome and comfortable.

Princeton Packet

Review: 'Guys and Dolls'
Guys and Dolls, which has just opened at Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, Pa., is just plain the best show at that theater on the Delaware in years...

Review: 'King Lear'
There are many who consider King Lear Shakespeare’s masterpiece. One of these is Bonnie Monte...