Denver Post
John Denver parody almost like seminal original
Los Angeles Times
Reunion goes haywire in 'Alexandros'
In Melinda Lopez's comedy 'Alexandros,' a gathering of a Cuban American clan doesn't go as planned.
The Envelope - Los Angeles Times
Experts predict who'll win the Tonys
Los Angeles Daily News
'Red Dog Howls' and the tears flow
An Armenian --- not Greek --- tragedy
Orange County Register
'Alexandros' is fitfully successful in Laguna Playhouse premiere
A new comedy about a dysfunctional Cuban-American family struggles with problems of tone but presents some memorable characters.
San Francisco Chronicle
THEATER REVIEW - Pitch-perfect 'Pericles' by Cal Shakes
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE)Pericles: Romance. By William Shakespeare. Adapted and directed by Joel Sass. (Through June 22. California Shakespeare Theater, Bruns Amphitheater, 100 Gateway Blvd.,
Chad Jones Theater Dogs Blog
Review: `Pericles’
Cal Shakes season opens with radiant romp
San Jose Mercury News
Cal Shakespeare opens summer season with fantastical 'Pericles'
"No more, you gods!" "Pericles" cries out to the heavens, his bravery washed away by a tidal wave of incest, shipwrecks, assassinations and jousts.
San Diego Union-Tribune
A fascinating, unsettling study of identity
The wisdom of cloning comes off looking extremely iffy in “A Number.” And yet in spite of itself, the work makes one good argument for the practice: Cloning theatergoers might give them a fighting chance to catch all the ideas pinging around in this play.
Monday, June 2, 2008
ATW NewsClips - Midwest Print
Chicago Tribune
Rob Belushi aims to transcend family legacy
Just up the street from Glencoe's prestigious Writers' Theatre, Rob Belushi knocks back the last of his Starbucks venti-size coffee.
Chicago Sun-Times
'Buddy Holly' no 'Jersey Boys'
Buddy Holly, that sadly short-lived musical comet who raced through the rock 'n' roll firmament for a few crucial years during the late 1950s, had a musical to call his own long before Frankie Valli and The ...
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Playwright/actor is a fine dramaturge with the ear of a poet
When 26-year-old actor Matthew Amendt decided to write a play, he could have done what plenty of others his age have done: scribbled down some ironic, self-referential, comic tripe that would provide stage time for himself and his buddies. Instead, he looked to antiquity...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
* Theater families say home is where the stage is
* Eclectic Ovations! unveils lineup
* k.d. lang, Hornsby and 'Dracula' part of Touhill's new season
Cincinnati Enquirer
You're the star of '(rsvp)'
I usually loathe audience participation plays. But with the Satori Group's "(rsvp)" you have no choice: You are the play.
More Fringe reviews
Rob Belushi aims to transcend family legacy
Just up the street from Glencoe's prestigious Writers' Theatre, Rob Belushi knocks back the last of his Starbucks venti-size coffee.
Chicago Sun-Times
'Buddy Holly' no 'Jersey Boys'
Buddy Holly, that sadly short-lived musical comet who raced through the rock 'n' roll firmament for a few crucial years during the late 1950s, had a musical to call his own long before Frankie Valli and The ...
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Playwright/actor is a fine dramaturge with the ear of a poet
When 26-year-old actor Matthew Amendt decided to write a play, he could have done what plenty of others his age have done: scribbled down some ironic, self-referential, comic tripe that would provide stage time for himself and his buddies. Instead, he looked to antiquity...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
* Theater families say home is where the stage is
* Eclectic Ovations! unveils lineup
* k.d. lang, Hornsby and 'Dracula' part of Touhill's new season
Cincinnati Enquirer
You're the star of '(rsvp)'
I usually loathe audience participation plays. But with the Satori Group's "(rsvp)" you have no choice: You are the play.
More Fringe reviews
ATW NewsClips - Mid-Atlantic Print
Washington Post
From Synetic, A 'Carmen' That's Lithe On Its Feet
Don Jose may be eternally afflicted with love for a Gypsy siren, but in Synetic Theater's new adaptation of "Carmen," he's come down with something even more virulent: dance fever.
Scena's 'Godot': It's Half-Worth the Wait
If you're a community theater at loose ends, you might turn to something like "The Odd Couple": celebrated playwright, beloved script, indelible leading characters. Kinda foolproof.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Stage Review: In the Presence of Alan Stanford and Oscar Wilde
Richmond Times-Dispatch
A play that gives hope
'Charcoal Street' tells somber, but hopeful, tale of homelessness
On the aisle - theater notes
From Synetic, A 'Carmen' That's Lithe On Its Feet
Don Jose may be eternally afflicted with love for a Gypsy siren, but in Synetic Theater's new adaptation of "Carmen," he's come down with something even more virulent: dance fever.
Scena's 'Godot': It's Half-Worth the Wait
If you're a community theater at loose ends, you might turn to something like "The Odd Couple": celebrated playwright, beloved script, indelible leading characters. Kinda foolproof.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Stage Review: In the Presence of Alan Stanford and Oscar Wilde
Richmond Times-Dispatch
A play that gives hope
'Charcoal Street' tells somber, but hopeful, tale of homelessness
On the aisle - theater notes
ATW NewsClips - Tri-State Print
The Times UK
How the British have taken Manhattan
This year's Tony awards will have a strong English accent. Key players explain what's gone right with British theatre
New York Times
ARTS, BRIEFLY; For Annie’s Composer
Charles Strouse, the award-winning composer of “Annie,” “Applause” among a dozen other Broadway shows, will turn 80 on Saturday, but the party will last more than one day.....
ARTS, BRIEFLY; Oliver Has His Nancy
After 12 weeks of competition, the future London production of “Oliver!” has found its Nancy. Jodie Prenger, 28, won Britain’s “I’d Do Anything” television talent contest....
ARTS, BRIEFLY; Footnotes
Philadelphia Theater Co., Gay Men's Chorus, LAByrinth....
New York Daily News
'Blonde' ambition for Elle of a role
In "Legally Blonde the Musical: The Search for Elle Woods," contestant Celina Carvajal looked down on casting a Broadway lead through reality television. She did, that is, until she actually showed up for the audition.
New York Magazine
Harvey Fierstein: Critics Are Killing Theater
Bergen Record
Ridgewood Gilbert & Sullivan Company stages 'Ruddigore'
How the British have taken Manhattan
This year's Tony awards will have a strong English accent. Key players explain what's gone right with British theatre
New York Times
ARTS, BRIEFLY; For Annie’s Composer
Charles Strouse, the award-winning composer of “Annie,” “Applause” among a dozen other Broadway shows, will turn 80 on Saturday, but the party will last more than one day.....
ARTS, BRIEFLY; Oliver Has His Nancy
After 12 weeks of competition, the future London production of “Oliver!” has found its Nancy. Jodie Prenger, 28, won Britain’s “I’d Do Anything” television talent contest....
ARTS, BRIEFLY; Footnotes
Philadelphia Theater Co., Gay Men's Chorus, LAByrinth....
New York Daily News
'Blonde' ambition for Elle of a role
In "Legally Blonde the Musical: The Search for Elle Woods," contestant Celina Carvajal looked down on casting a Broadway lead through reality television. She did, that is, until she actually showed up for the audition.
New York Magazine
Harvey Fierstein: Critics Are Killing Theater
Bergen Record
Ridgewood Gilbert & Sullivan Company stages 'Ruddigore'
ATW NewsClips - National, Industry Pubs
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
"Gone With the Wind" musical to close in U.K.
To no one's great surprise, Trevor Nunn's West End production of a new musical version of "Gone With the Wind" will soon be just that, and plans for a New York production have been shelved.
Variety
Gore's 'Truth' warms to opera
Climate documentary adapted for the stage
South Coast Rep tips 'Hat'
'Straw' to open September 5
Review: Love, Janis @ Wilshire Theater
The rip-the-walls-down vocals of Mary Bridget Davies supply the sharpest moments in the touring Janis Joplin bio-tuner "Love, Janis," but the bio material, performed with understated folksiness by Marisa Ryan, does not offer enough substance to clarify the self-destructiveness of this troubled genius.
Review: Norman's Ark @ John Anson Ford Amphitheater
In conjunction with the Southern California Festival of New American Musicals, the team of Glen Roven and Jerome Kass have conjured up an earnest if simplistic retelling of Noah's biblical plight, filtered through Katrina survivor concerns. Buoyed by Roven's easy-listening gospel/rockabilly score, helmer Peter Schneider fluidly marshals the talents and energies of a 200-member singing and dancing ensemble.
"Gone With the Wind" musical to close in U.K.
To no one's great surprise, Trevor Nunn's West End production of a new musical version of "Gone With the Wind" will soon be just that, and plans for a New York production have been shelved.
Variety
Gore's 'Truth' warms to opera
Climate documentary adapted for the stage
South Coast Rep tips 'Hat'
'Straw' to open September 5
Review: Love, Janis @ Wilshire Theater
The rip-the-walls-down vocals of Mary Bridget Davies supply the sharpest moments in the touring Janis Joplin bio-tuner "Love, Janis," but the bio material, performed with understated folksiness by Marisa Ryan, does not offer enough substance to clarify the self-destructiveness of this troubled genius.
Review: Norman's Ark @ John Anson Ford Amphitheater
In conjunction with the Southern California Festival of New American Musicals, the team of Glen Roven and Jerome Kass have conjured up an earnest if simplistic retelling of Noah's biblical plight, filtered through Katrina survivor concerns. Buoyed by Roven's easy-listening gospel/rockabilly score, helmer Peter Schneider fluidly marshals the talents and energies of a 200-member singing and dancing ensemble.
ATW NewsClips - Mid-day Collection - All
Playbill
* Gas for Less, Portrait of a Family Business at Risk, Opens at Goodman June 2
* South Coast Rep's New Season Has Four World Premieres, Plus Lear, Heiress, Frayn and Ruhl
* Free Reading of Frida Kahlo Musical, with Bernard, Toro, Herrera and Hayden, Offered June 2
* National Arts Club Honors Heights' Lin-Manuel Miranda June 2
* Wong, Warren and Zbornik Join Adding Machine's Blair at the Zipper June 2
* Groff Performs at Forget-Me-Not Gala June 2; Hyde Pierce Hosts
* Redgrave Performs Rachel and Juliet, a Tribute to Mom Kempson, June 2
* Woods and DeJean Return to Broadway's Chicago June 2
* Astaire Awards, Honoring Tune, Ashford, Liff, Olivo and Scott, Presented June 2
* "Legally Blonde The Musical: The Search for Elle Woods" Premieres on MTV June 2
* Second Annual TeatroStageFest Begins June 2
* Pariah Reading, with Gottlieb, Greenberg, Stone and Tanner, Presented June 2
* Blonde's Shindle Will Go It Solo at Birdland June 2
*DeRoy to Welcome Cariou, Gravitte, Strouse, D'Abruzzo, Ackerman and More June 11
*Prenger Will Be Nancy in London's Oliver! Revival
TheaterMania
* Freed, Kolvenbach, Ruhl, Sullivan, et al. Set for South Coast Rep Season
* Glimmerglass Opera Announces 2009 Season
* Johnny Depp, Zac Efron Win MTV Movie Awards
* Cariou, D'Abruzzo, deRoy, Gravitte, Strouse, et al. to Appear at Metropolitan Room on June 11
* Brian Stokes Mitchell to Play Radio City Music Hall
* 92nd Street Y Announces 2009 Lyrics & Lyricists Season
Peter Filichia's Diary: Student Matinee
It’s 11 in the morning on a Thursday, and I’m about to see a show. It’s not children’s theater, not in the strict sense of the term, though everyone in the house except me is still of school age.
nytheatre.com
Review: 'This is a Cowboy Poem My Daddy Taught Me'
Review: 'The Euthanasist '
CurtainUp
Review: 'Amadeus'
* Gas for Less, Portrait of a Family Business at Risk, Opens at Goodman June 2
* South Coast Rep's New Season Has Four World Premieres, Plus Lear, Heiress, Frayn and Ruhl
* Free Reading of Frida Kahlo Musical, with Bernard, Toro, Herrera and Hayden, Offered June 2
* National Arts Club Honors Heights' Lin-Manuel Miranda June 2
* Wong, Warren and Zbornik Join Adding Machine's Blair at the Zipper June 2
* Groff Performs at Forget-Me-Not Gala June 2; Hyde Pierce Hosts
* Redgrave Performs Rachel and Juliet, a Tribute to Mom Kempson, June 2
* Woods and DeJean Return to Broadway's Chicago June 2
* Astaire Awards, Honoring Tune, Ashford, Liff, Olivo and Scott, Presented June 2
* "Legally Blonde The Musical: The Search for Elle Woods" Premieres on MTV June 2
* Second Annual TeatroStageFest Begins June 2
* Pariah Reading, with Gottlieb, Greenberg, Stone and Tanner, Presented June 2
* Blonde's Shindle Will Go It Solo at Birdland June 2
*DeRoy to Welcome Cariou, Gravitte, Strouse, D'Abruzzo, Ackerman and More June 11
*Prenger Will Be Nancy in London's Oliver! Revival
TheaterMania
* Freed, Kolvenbach, Ruhl, Sullivan, et al. Set for South Coast Rep Season
* Glimmerglass Opera Announces 2009 Season
* Johnny Depp, Zac Efron Win MTV Movie Awards
* Cariou, D'Abruzzo, deRoy, Gravitte, Strouse, et al. to Appear at Metropolitan Room on June 11
* Brian Stokes Mitchell to Play Radio City Music Hall
* 92nd Street Y Announces 2009 Lyrics & Lyricists Season
Peter Filichia's Diary: Student Matinee
It’s 11 in the morning on a Thursday, and I’m about to see a show. It’s not children’s theater, not in the strict sense of the term, though everyone in the house except me is still of school age.
nytheatre.com
Review: 'This is a Cowboy Poem My Daddy Taught Me'
Review: 'The Euthanasist '
CurtainUp
Review: 'Amadeus'
ATW NewsClips - London
The Independent
Great outdoors: this summer's best alfresco productions
Review: Troilus and Cressida, Barbican, London
Financial Times
Fat Pig, Trafalgar Studio 1, London
Neil LaBute offers a protagonist’s awkwardness at falling for a tubby woman and the peer pressure put on him, writes Ian Shuttleworth
Rosmersholm, Almeida, London
Anthony Page’s production plays out nimbly on Hildegard Bechtler’s pale, orderly set, which seems almost to mock its desperate inhabitants, writes Sarah Hemming
The Times UK
How the British have taken Manhattan
This year's Tony awards will have a strong English accent. Key players explain what's gone right with British theatre
Review: Running The Silk Road, Nothern Stage, Newcastle
Unfortunately Paul Sirett's earnest, ambitious production pulls itself in too many directions to ever gel convincingly
The Red Ladies of Clod Ensemble hit Oxford
Our reporter joins a 21-strong modern-day Greek chorus; identically dressed, silent observers of humanity
Rock, at Oval House, SE11
This tale of Rock Hudson is the stuff of film history cliché and offers little fresh perspective
The Guardian
Review: Running the Silk Road, Northern Stage, Newcastle
David Tse Ka-Shing's bilingual production crams Chinese culture into a powerful 90 minutes, writes Alfred Hickling
Review: Little Otik, Citizens, Glasgow
A screen adaptation of a nightmare fairytale film is visually ravishing, writes Mark Fisher
Daily Telegraph
Jude Kelly: Yellow brick road to the South Bank
Artistic director Jude Kelly tells Jasper Rees why she's turning the Festival Hall into a theatre to stage 'The Wizard of Oz'.
Theatre reviews: Absolutely Frank and The Quiz
Charles Spencer finds Absolutely Frank and The Quiz sympathetic and splendidly funny.
Whatsonstage.com
Jodie Prenger Wins Nancy Role via I’d Do Anything
Great outdoors: this summer's best alfresco productions
Review: Troilus and Cressida, Barbican, London
Financial Times
Fat Pig, Trafalgar Studio 1, London
Neil LaBute offers a protagonist’s awkwardness at falling for a tubby woman and the peer pressure put on him, writes Ian Shuttleworth
Rosmersholm, Almeida, London
Anthony Page’s production plays out nimbly on Hildegard Bechtler’s pale, orderly set, which seems almost to mock its desperate inhabitants, writes Sarah Hemming
The Times UK
How the British have taken Manhattan
This year's Tony awards will have a strong English accent. Key players explain what's gone right with British theatre
Review: Running The Silk Road, Nothern Stage, Newcastle
Unfortunately Paul Sirett's earnest, ambitious production pulls itself in too many directions to ever gel convincingly
The Red Ladies of Clod Ensemble hit Oxford
Our reporter joins a 21-strong modern-day Greek chorus; identically dressed, silent observers of humanity
Rock, at Oval House, SE11
This tale of Rock Hudson is the stuff of film history cliché and offers little fresh perspective
The Guardian
Review: Running the Silk Road, Northern Stage, Newcastle
David Tse Ka-Shing's bilingual production crams Chinese culture into a powerful 90 minutes, writes Alfred Hickling
Review: Little Otik, Citizens, Glasgow
A screen adaptation of a nightmare fairytale film is visually ravishing, writes Mark Fisher
Daily Telegraph
Jude Kelly: Yellow brick road to the South Bank
Artistic director Jude Kelly tells Jasper Rees why she's turning the Festival Hall into a theatre to stage 'The Wizard of Oz'.
Theatre reviews: Absolutely Frank and The Quiz
Charles Spencer finds Absolutely Frank and The Quiz sympathetic and splendidly funny.
Whatsonstage.com
Jodie Prenger Wins Nancy Role via I’d Do Anything
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