Seattle Weekly
Up From the Galley
He’s got crab legs, and he’s ready to pick up suburban trash.Longenbaugh on Theater
The Stranger
Time Bandit
Paul Mullin and His Self-Destructing New Play
Plus Ça Change
Circus Contraption Jets Forward into the Recent Past
Theater News
The Disappearing Critics
The Oregonian
No two ways about it, "Doubt" impresses on Center Stage
There is no doubt about where John Patrick Shanley stands on the subject of his Pulitzer-winning play "Doubt": He's for it.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
ATW NewsClips - California Print
Los Angeles Times
Laguna Playhouse to reveal 'Alexandros'
The Miami-set play centers around dark family secrets, a dog and the day Nixon...
Los Angeles Daily News
Stage Preview: 'A Chorus Line'
You never forget your time on the "Line," especially if you were one of the pioneers
Orange County Register - Theater by Paul Hodgins Blog
‘Taking Steps’ missteps at South Coast Repertory
Back Stage
The Legendary Times of Bulgakov reviewed by Brad Schreiber
ARTEL took the persecution of Russian playwright-novelist Mikhail Bulgakov ('The Master and Margarita') and rendered it devoid of context and visceral power.
Manuscript reviewed by Eric Marchese
The San Juan Capistrano-based black-box theatre troupe, shuttering soon, could have selected a much stronger piece to go out on than Paul Grellong's 2005 thriller.
Hedda Gabler reviewed by Dany Margolies
It's not that two directors always spoil the soup. Trying not to prejudge, one hopes each has brought his considerable proven talents to the metaphoric table. Alas, each did not.
Tooth and Nail reviewed by Les Spindle
Director Lindsay Allbaugh's frenetic staging of Acosta's boisterously hilarious but insufficiently focused play offers intermittent fun.
Where's My Money reviewed by Jeff Favre
Shanley's storytelling may be flawed here, but as always it's inventive and thought-provoking.
The Good Hours reviewed by Melinda Schupmann
Encapsulating heartbreak into 90 minutes takes skill and a certain kind of courage, and playwright Todd Cunningham is mostly successful in his cathartic drama about his fiancée's death.
Chad Jones' Theater Dogs Blog
Box-office boom
Some good news from box offices both national and local today. First the local.
San Jose Mercury News
Trying to love below sea level
Couples grapple with modern relationships in Magic Theatre's 'Octopus'
Contra Costa Times
Masquers' 'Full Monty' musical packed with adult entertainment
Summer theater: From horror to high-tone
'Evil Dead' musical, 'Sacagawea' world premiere; Broadway musicals and lots of Shakespeare are on tap
San Francisco Weekly
SF Playhouse's Bug gets under your skin
At the top of the second half of Tracy Letts' 1996 play, Bug, Peter, a troubled young man who claims to have escaped from an Army hospital, squats...
Also Playing
7 Sins. Halfway through James Judd's entertaining 75-minute solo show, it dawns on you: Who the hell is this guy and why am I laughing so hard?...
San Francisco Guardian
Mixed doubles
Yves Jacques talks Robert Lepage and The Andersen Project
Laguna Playhouse to reveal 'Alexandros'
The Miami-set play centers around dark family secrets, a dog and the day Nixon...
Los Angeles Daily News
Stage Preview: 'A Chorus Line'
You never forget your time on the "Line," especially if you were one of the pioneers
Orange County Register - Theater by Paul Hodgins Blog
‘Taking Steps’ missteps at South Coast Repertory
Back Stage
The Legendary Times of Bulgakov reviewed by Brad Schreiber
ARTEL took the persecution of Russian playwright-novelist Mikhail Bulgakov ('The Master and Margarita') and rendered it devoid of context and visceral power.
Manuscript reviewed by Eric Marchese
The San Juan Capistrano-based black-box theatre troupe, shuttering soon, could have selected a much stronger piece to go out on than Paul Grellong's 2005 thriller.
Hedda Gabler reviewed by Dany Margolies
It's not that two directors always spoil the soup. Trying not to prejudge, one hopes each has brought his considerable proven talents to the metaphoric table. Alas, each did not.
Tooth and Nail reviewed by Les Spindle
Director Lindsay Allbaugh's frenetic staging of Acosta's boisterously hilarious but insufficiently focused play offers intermittent fun.
Where's My Money reviewed by Jeff Favre
Shanley's storytelling may be flawed here, but as always it's inventive and thought-provoking.
The Good Hours reviewed by Melinda Schupmann
Encapsulating heartbreak into 90 minutes takes skill and a certain kind of courage, and playwright Todd Cunningham is mostly successful in his cathartic drama about his fiancée's death.
Chad Jones' Theater Dogs Blog
Box-office boom
Some good news from box offices both national and local today. First the local.
San Jose Mercury News
Trying to love below sea level
Couples grapple with modern relationships in Magic Theatre's 'Octopus'
Contra Costa Times
Masquers' 'Full Monty' musical packed with adult entertainment
Summer theater: From horror to high-tone
'Evil Dead' musical, 'Sacagawea' world premiere; Broadway musicals and lots of Shakespeare are on tap
San Francisco Weekly
SF Playhouse's Bug gets under your skin
At the top of the second half of Tracy Letts' 1996 play, Bug, Peter, a troubled young man who claims to have escaped from an Army hospital, squats...
Also Playing
7 Sins. Halfway through James Judd's entertaining 75-minute solo show, it dawns on you: Who the hell is this guy and why am I laughing so hard?...
San Francisco Guardian
Mixed doubles
Yves Jacques talks Robert Lepage and The Andersen Project
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
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
ATW NewsClips - Mid-Atlantic & New England Print
Washington Post
Dancing in The Dark: 'The Visit' With Chita Rivera
You get Chita Rivera, you expect a bit of razzle-dazzle. For the longest time in Signature Theatre's austere musical adaptation of "The Visit," the show obscures this essential facet of its star's appeal -- until partway into Act 2, when she's allowed to shed some of the production's stony resolve...
Washington City Paper
Curtain Calls
Glen Weldon reviews Closing Time at Theatre on the Run
Philadelphia City Paper
Glad All Over
Bill Irwin's dazzling, joyful The Happiness Lecture grabbed me (and I'm known to be unrepentantly mime-averse and clown-o-phobic), and kept me spellbound for 80 minutes.
Two's Company
The joys of William Mastrosimone's The Woolgatherer lie not in where it goes — we can all guess where a two-person romance is headed — but in how it gets there.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Stage Preview: Public Theater's Ted Pappas sings the praises of 'The Odd Couple'
Why "The Odd Couple"? Hasn't everyone already seen Neil Simon's 1965 hit comedy on stage? Apparently not. ...
Stage Review: 'Shear Madness' curls into permanent tease of silliness
One of the champions of interactive theater/cabaret is "Shear Madness," a comic whodunit that's been ensconced in other cities for two or three decades and has finally made its professional ...
In the Wings: 'Two Trains' extends?
As I'm putting this column to bed, Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre is trying to extend August Wilson's "Two Trains Running" another week, through June 8.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Public breaks new ground with Simon classic
Ask Ted Pappas why he chose Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple" to close the Pittsburgh Public Theater's 33rd season, and he quickly reels off three reasons.
'Don't Say Goodbye' pokes fun at mortality
Facing mortality isn't usually a laughing matter. But the cast who will bring the sensitive subject to light on the Saint Vincent College stage will keep audiences laughing.
Boston Phoenix
Gone but not forgotten
She Loves Me at the Huntington; plus Way Theatre Artists’ The Memory of Water
Providence Journal
Ain’t Misbehavin’ arrives in Matunuck
Matunuck’s Theatre by the Sea opened its 75th season this week with Ain’t Misbehavin’, the musical revue based on music written and made famous by jazz great Thomas “Fats” Waller...
Berkshire Eagle
A light shines on 'Caretaker'
It begins with a simple gesture. A man, a retiring, gentle man named Aston, holds out a sack of freshly acquired clothing to a homeless man, Davies, who has, by invitation, become a live-in guest in Aston's attic room in an abandoned house that may or may not be owned by Aston's brother, Mick.
Portland Phoenix
On the verge: A very busy Roadside
Dancing in The Dark: 'The Visit' With Chita Rivera
You get Chita Rivera, you expect a bit of razzle-dazzle. For the longest time in Signature Theatre's austere musical adaptation of "The Visit," the show obscures this essential facet of its star's appeal -- until partway into Act 2, when she's allowed to shed some of the production's stony resolve...
Washington City Paper
Curtain Calls
Glen Weldon reviews Closing Time at Theatre on the Run
Philadelphia City Paper
Glad All Over
Bill Irwin's dazzling, joyful The Happiness Lecture grabbed me (and I'm known to be unrepentantly mime-averse and clown-o-phobic), and kept me spellbound for 80 minutes.
Two's Company
The joys of William Mastrosimone's The Woolgatherer lie not in where it goes — we can all guess where a two-person romance is headed — but in how it gets there.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Stage Preview: Public Theater's Ted Pappas sings the praises of 'The Odd Couple'
Why "The Odd Couple"? Hasn't everyone already seen Neil Simon's 1965 hit comedy on stage? Apparently not. ...
Stage Review: 'Shear Madness' curls into permanent tease of silliness
One of the champions of interactive theater/cabaret is "Shear Madness," a comic whodunit that's been ensconced in other cities for two or three decades and has finally made its professional ...
In the Wings: 'Two Trains' extends?
As I'm putting this column to bed, Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre is trying to extend August Wilson's "Two Trains Running" another week, through June 8.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Public breaks new ground with Simon classic
Ask Ted Pappas why he chose Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple" to close the Pittsburgh Public Theater's 33rd season, and he quickly reels off three reasons.
'Don't Say Goodbye' pokes fun at mortality
Facing mortality isn't usually a laughing matter. But the cast who will bring the sensitive subject to light on the Saint Vincent College stage will keep audiences laughing.
Boston Phoenix
Gone but not forgotten
She Loves Me at the Huntington; plus Way Theatre Artists’ The Memory of Water
Providence Journal
Ain’t Misbehavin’ arrives in Matunuck
Matunuck’s Theatre by the Sea opened its 75th season this week with Ain’t Misbehavin’, the musical revue based on music written and made famous by jazz great Thomas “Fats” Waller...
Berkshire Eagle
A light shines on 'Caretaker'
It begins with a simple gesture. A man, a retiring, gentle man named Aston, holds out a sack of freshly acquired clothing to a homeless man, Davies, who has, by invitation, become a live-in guest in Aston's attic room in an abandoned house that may or may not be owned by Aston's brother, Mick.
Portland Phoenix
On the verge: A very busy Roadside
ATW NewsClips - NY Print
New York Times
An 18th-Century Satire Gets a 21st-Century Spin
The Magis Theater Company’s production of “The Witlings” has only one thing on its mind: laughs.
Dimmer Lights on Broadway?
Paid attendance at Broadway shows, at 12.2 million, was down slightly from last season’s record of 12.3 million, according to a new report.
Time Out NY
2008 Tony Nominations: Musicals
TONY's David Cote and Adam Feldman quiz the 2008 Tony nominees on their shows.
2008 Tony Nominations: Plays
More awards-season commentary by Cote and Feldman, inteviewing the 2008 Tony Award nominees.
Annie Baker - The up-and-comer makes her quirk-free Off Broadway bow with Body Awareness.
Review: Prisoner of the Crown reviewed by Adam Feldman
Irish Repertory Theatre takes up the 1916 case of Sir Roger Casement, accused of treason as well as homosexuality.
Review: The Great American All-Star Traveling War Machine reviewed by Adam Feldman
The unwieldy title of Irondale Ensemble's antiwar satire belies its scattershot approach to battle.
Review: Oedipus Loves You reviewed by Helen Shaw
Greek tragedy. Punk rock. Mock psychobabble. Standard-issue madness at P.S. 122.
Review: Brits Off Broadway Artefacts reviewed by Rob Kendt
The Iraq War has a lot to answer for: carnage, waste, instability—and tons of cheap political theater.
Hartford Courant
Rizzo: 'Frankie And JohnnyÂ’ Star Returns To Hartford
Portia, the actress who starred in Hartford Stage's "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune," will join the cast of TheaterWorks' production of Nilaja Sun's off-Broadway hit "No Child..."
Hartford Advocate
Theater: Best of the Last
Mortality and eccentricity blend memorably in the final play of Hartford Stage's Tennessee Williams marathon
Stage: She's So Heavy
She's So Heavy Henrik Ibsen, considered the father of modern drama, wrote several controversial...
Fairfield County Weekly
Karp Talk
Celebrating STW's Steve Karp; The Pavilion redeems WCP
Valley Advocate
Going Greek
If you've ever wondered if there was more to sorority life than pillow fights, sweater sets and...
Bergen Record
Wyckoff's "Soccer mom" breaks out in new role
Princeton Packet
Review: 'Footloose'
Review: 'Big River'
Albany Times Union
'I Am My Own Wife' a fluid, complex portrait
An 18th-Century Satire Gets a 21st-Century Spin
The Magis Theater Company’s production of “The Witlings” has only one thing on its mind: laughs.
Dimmer Lights on Broadway?
Paid attendance at Broadway shows, at 12.2 million, was down slightly from last season’s record of 12.3 million, according to a new report.
Time Out NY
2008 Tony Nominations: Musicals
TONY's David Cote and Adam Feldman quiz the 2008 Tony nominees on their shows.
2008 Tony Nominations: Plays
More awards-season commentary by Cote and Feldman, inteviewing the 2008 Tony Award nominees.
Annie Baker - The up-and-comer makes her quirk-free Off Broadway bow with Body Awareness.
Review: Prisoner of the Crown reviewed by Adam Feldman
Irish Repertory Theatre takes up the 1916 case of Sir Roger Casement, accused of treason as well as homosexuality.
Review: The Great American All-Star Traveling War Machine reviewed by Adam Feldman
The unwieldy title of Irondale Ensemble's antiwar satire belies its scattershot approach to battle.
Review: Oedipus Loves You reviewed by Helen Shaw
Greek tragedy. Punk rock. Mock psychobabble. Standard-issue madness at P.S. 122.
Review: Brits Off Broadway Artefacts reviewed by Rob Kendt
The Iraq War has a lot to answer for: carnage, waste, instability—and tons of cheap political theater.
Hartford Courant
Rizzo: 'Frankie And JohnnyÂ’ Star Returns To Hartford
Portia, the actress who starred in Hartford Stage's "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune," will join the cast of TheaterWorks' production of Nilaja Sun's off-Broadway hit "No Child..."
Hartford Advocate
Theater: Best of the Last
Mortality and eccentricity blend memorably in the final play of Hartford Stage's Tennessee Williams marathon
Stage: She's So Heavy
She's So Heavy Henrik Ibsen, considered the father of modern drama, wrote several controversial...
Fairfield County Weekly
Karp Talk
Celebrating STW's Steve Karp; The Pavilion redeems WCP
Valley Advocate
Going Greek
If you've ever wondered if there was more to sorority life than pillow fights, sweater sets and...
Bergen Record
Wyckoff's "Soccer mom" breaks out in new role
Princeton Packet
Review: 'Footloose'
Review: 'Big River'
Albany Times Union
'I Am My Own Wife' a fluid, complex portrait
ATW NewsClips - National Print Pubs
Bloomberg.com
Frankenstein's Fuzzy Numbers Help Spike Broadway's $937.5 Million Season
Besides selling $450 tickets and mounting a Broadway musical comedy that most critics found mechanical, the producers of ``Young Frankenstein'' have something else to answer for: muddling the season's box-office statistics.
Toilet-Paper Satire on Business Rivals Touches French Nerve: Paris Theater
A 5-hour play about toilet paper seems a tad excessive. Michel Vinaver's ``Par-dessus bord'' (Overboard) at Paris's Theatre National de la Colline is nevertheless one of the hits of the season.
Variety
Melissa Gilbert back on 'Prairie'
Actress set for musical version of 'Little House'
Broadway box office stays strong
Total sales for season hit $937.5 million
Funnymen line up for comedy festival
Short, Fallon, Alexander to host Just for Laughs
Career rose in stalled elevator meeting
Hunter and Henley's collaboration lasts 25 years
Holly Hunter finds 'Grace'
Role latest in career spanning film, TV, theater
Review: Romeo and Juliet
Anything Des McAnuff directed would be expected to have a certain air of razzle-dazzle about it, but it's unlikely anyone in the opening-night audience at the Stratford Festival -- where he took over this year as artistic director -- was expecting his "Romeo and Juliet" to pack quite such a Red Bull-and-vodka feeling into its attention-grabbing start.
Review: The Visit
Call it "The Visit" revisited. The final production of the Signature Theater's Kander and Ebb festival is an extensive overhaul of the 2001 tuner that premiered at Chicago's Goodman Theater to mixed reviews and little follow-up interest. New contributions from the reassembled creative team include a modified book by Terrence McNally, reconceived staging by director Frank Galati, new choreography from Ann Reinking and even some original numbers written prior to lyricist Fred Ebb's death in 2004. The result is a deliciously dark and presumably more fluid tale that deserves renewed attention from the Broadway powers being eagerly courted.
Back Stage
A Political Party! reviewed by Paul Menard
Perhaps it's appropriate that the vapid political revue, A Political Party!, attempts to satirize current events but fails dismally to offer either laughs or insight.
Reuters
Strike stops Broadway from setting records
New York City's Broadway productions would have set box office and attendance records during 2007-08 if there had not been a 19-day stagehand strike in November, the Broadway League said on Wednesday.
Frankenstein's Fuzzy Numbers Help Spike Broadway's $937.5 Million Season
Besides selling $450 tickets and mounting a Broadway musical comedy that most critics found mechanical, the producers of ``Young Frankenstein'' have something else to answer for: muddling the season's box-office statistics.
Toilet-Paper Satire on Business Rivals Touches French Nerve: Paris Theater
A 5-hour play about toilet paper seems a tad excessive. Michel Vinaver's ``Par-dessus bord'' (Overboard) at Paris's Theatre National de la Colline is nevertheless one of the hits of the season.
Variety
Melissa Gilbert back on 'Prairie'
Actress set for musical version of 'Little House'
Broadway box office stays strong
Total sales for season hit $937.5 million
Funnymen line up for comedy festival
Short, Fallon, Alexander to host Just for Laughs
Career rose in stalled elevator meeting
Hunter and Henley's collaboration lasts 25 years
Holly Hunter finds 'Grace'
Role latest in career spanning film, TV, theater
Review: Romeo and Juliet
Anything Des McAnuff directed would be expected to have a certain air of razzle-dazzle about it, but it's unlikely anyone in the opening-night audience at the Stratford Festival -- where he took over this year as artistic director -- was expecting his "Romeo and Juliet" to pack quite such a Red Bull-and-vodka feeling into its attention-grabbing start.
Review: The Visit
Call it "The Visit" revisited. The final production of the Signature Theater's Kander and Ebb festival is an extensive overhaul of the 2001 tuner that premiered at Chicago's Goodman Theater to mixed reviews and little follow-up interest. New contributions from the reassembled creative team include a modified book by Terrence McNally, reconceived staging by director Frank Galati, new choreography from Ann Reinking and even some original numbers written prior to lyricist Fred Ebb's death in 2004. The result is a deliciously dark and presumably more fluid tale that deserves renewed attention from the Broadway powers being eagerly courted.
Back Stage
A Political Party! reviewed by Paul Menard
Perhaps it's appropriate that the vapid political revue, A Political Party!, attempts to satirize current events but fails dismally to offer either laughs or insight.
Reuters
Strike stops Broadway from setting records
New York City's Broadway productions would have set box office and attendance records during 2007-08 if there had not been a 19-day stagehand strike in November, the Broadway League said on Wednesday.
ATW NewsClips - Online Sources
Playbill
Fame Finds Steppenwolf Ensemble Member and 2008 Tony Nominee Rondi Reed
Djerassi Comedy Three on a Couch Gets U.S. Premiere May 29 in NYC
Night Job, with Cavenaugh, Crumm, James, Murney and Pierce, Presented May 29
Pittsburgh Public's Odd Couple, with Scherer and Polk, Begins May 29
Xanadu Taped for Lincoln Center Archives May 29; "Regis" Appearance in June
Davies, Ryan and Mitrovich Star in L.A. Premiere of Love, Janis, Beginning May 29
PHOTO CALL: 2008 Tony Award Preview — Best Leading Actor in a Play Nominees (
Lentini's The Euthanasiast Begins Performances at PS 122 May 29
Immediate Family: A Catered Affair Performs at Barnes and Noble May 29
"Louie, Louie"-Inspired Stomp and Shout Begins Performances May 29
Gilbert, Blanchard, Lindsay, Gambatese, Ford and Massey to Star in Guthrie's Prairie
Tickets for Shrek the Musical to Go on Sale May 31; Casting Now Complete
Williamson, Evans, Rodriguez, Crawford and Dilellio Set for Oklahoma! at Theater of the Stars
MARQUEE VALUE: Billy Elliot at the Imperial Theatre
TheaterMania
Blanchard, Gambatese, Gilbert, et al. Set for Guthrie's Little House on the Prairie
Lamas, Piccininni, Spangler, et al. Set for Casa Manana's The Fantasticks
Anderson, Barrett, Hoty, McCarthy, et al. Added to Cape Playhouse Season
nytheatre.com
Review: 'A Political Party!' @ the Sage Theatre
CurtainUp
Review: 'Blink' @ Brits Off-Broadway
Potomac Stages
Review: 'The Oresteia: A Virtuous Work On A Very Large Scale Production By A Precocious Theater Company
Fame Finds Steppenwolf Ensemble Member and 2008 Tony Nominee Rondi Reed
Djerassi Comedy Three on a Couch Gets U.S. Premiere May 29 in NYC
Night Job, with Cavenaugh, Crumm, James, Murney and Pierce, Presented May 29
Pittsburgh Public's Odd Couple, with Scherer and Polk, Begins May 29
Xanadu Taped for Lincoln Center Archives May 29; "Regis" Appearance in June
Davies, Ryan and Mitrovich Star in L.A. Premiere of Love, Janis, Beginning May 29
PHOTO CALL: 2008 Tony Award Preview — Best Leading Actor in a Play Nominees (
Lentini's The Euthanasiast Begins Performances at PS 122 May 29
Immediate Family: A Catered Affair Performs at Barnes and Noble May 29
"Louie, Louie"-Inspired Stomp and Shout Begins Performances May 29
Gilbert, Blanchard, Lindsay, Gambatese, Ford and Massey to Star in Guthrie's Prairie
Tickets for Shrek the Musical to Go on Sale May 31; Casting Now Complete
Williamson, Evans, Rodriguez, Crawford and Dilellio Set for Oklahoma! at Theater of the Stars
MARQUEE VALUE: Billy Elliot at the Imperial Theatre
TheaterMania
Blanchard, Gambatese, Gilbert, et al. Set for Guthrie's Little House on the Prairie
Lamas, Piccininni, Spangler, et al. Set for Casa Manana's The Fantasticks
Anderson, Barrett, Hoty, McCarthy, et al. Added to Cape Playhouse Season
nytheatre.com
Review: 'A Political Party!' @ the Sage Theatre
CurtainUp
Review: 'Blink' @ Brits Off-Broadway
Potomac Stages
Review: 'The Oresteia: A Virtuous Work On A Very Large Scale Production By A Precocious Theater Company
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