AmericanTheaterWeb NewsClips

Atlanta Creating Loafing Fresh Loaf Blog

Alliance Theatre plans world premiere Sondheim revue

New York Magazine Vulture Blog

Why Can’t Neil LaBute Sell Out Properly?

Chad Jones' Theater Dogs Blog

Politics `Beach Blanket Babylon’ style
Leave it to the country’s longest-running musical revue –34 years and counting — to nail the political atmosphere.

Back Stage

Enter Laughing: The Musical reviewed by Robert Windeler
The nonmusical play Enter Laughing by Joseph Stein, based on Carl Reiner's 1958 autobiographical novel, opened on Broadway in 1963, was an immediate hit, and made a star of Alan Arkin.

Back Stage - L.A. Reviews

Agamemnon
This production strikes the eye in all the right ways. It less successfully strikes the ear and heart.

Hands-On Therapy
Toby Campion has sewn together three interesting concepts, any of which could be extended into a creative, full-length work.

Long Stay Cut Short
With most writers, certain thematic elements persist and recur frequently, but Tennessee Williams seems to have been the ultimate recycler.

The Merchant of Venice
With his sure hand at the directorial helm, Joe Parrish shows what an astute eye for casting; performances of conviction from top to bottom.

Once On This Island
This 1990 musical from librettist-lyricist Lynn Ahrens and composer Stephen Flaherty (the Ragtime team) combines elements of classic fairy tales with voodoo folklore.

R.R.R.E.D., The Redhead Musical Manifesto
This is still a clever entertainment with a surefire rosy-red future, made so not only by Katie Thompson and Patrick Livingston's finely honed onstage love-hate relationship.

Playbill

* Tomlin to Join Fifth Season of "Desperate Housewives"
* PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, Sept. 6-12: An Ogre's Work Is Never Done
* Lapine to Create iSondheim: aMusical Revue for Alliance Theatre
* Eaton Will Be Corsetless at Carnegie Hall Sept. 15
* A Decade Later, Laramie Project Will Get an Epilogue
* Seagull Pushes Back Broadway Opening By a Day
* Kantor, Preston and More Will Honor South Pacific's O'Hara Nov. 10

TheaterMania

* Broadway's Seagull Moves Opening to October 2
* Kelli O'Hara to Be Honored at Great Neck Gala
* Tartaglia's Johnny and the Sprites to Perform at Mayo Center October 19

Talkin' Broadway

S.F. Reviews: The Will Rogers Follies, Friends are Forever, I Feel a Thong Coming On

Potomac Stages

The Road to Mecca: A Richly Burnished Production
Studio Theatre - Washington DC

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Fringe Binge
Caught a trio of shows at the San Francisco Fringe Festival the other night. All of them very different, all of them with their hearts in the right place, and all of them, despite being only an hour or less in length, leaving me feeling like they could have been 15 minutes shorter.

Parabasis

Job Opportunity
Sorry things have been so quiet at Parabasis central. I have three articles I'm writing today, so things are a bit maxed out. But... here's a job!

Superfluities Redux

Night Planner
The Night Planner wanders uptown for a night or two this week following its determination to stay south of 14th Street last week.