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Chicago Tribune

Magical idiocy goes missing in latest 'Escanaba'

'Candide' revival is hardly the best of all possible worlds

Chicago Sun-Times

'Inspector' uncovers obvious yuks
Two real-life stories from 1997, when I spent a year traveling in Eastern Europe and the Balkans: First, in Gdansk, Poland, I encountered a schleppy-looking American guy who was ..

Theatre in Chicago

30 Years of New Plays and Playwrights
In terms of organization and real estate, Chicago Dramatists is a relatively small operation, but it is a giant in its ongoing pursuit of introducing new plays and playwrights to the theatre world. ...

Daily Herald

Dueling 'Broadways'
Steel Beam debuts first of two Chicago-area versions of "Forbidden Broadway"

Science, ethics collide in Redmoon's latest

Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Asian women front and center
Two one-acts at the Playwrights' Center take funny, off-center looks at culture, gender and life.

Kushner is 1st recipient of playwright prize
Tony Kushner, whose new play will premiere at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis in spring 2009, has won $200,000 as the first recipient of the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award.

St. Paul Pioneer Press

'Porcelain Mask': strong voices for stories from Asian women
Two fresh one-acts constitute Mu Performing Arts' latest show, "Under the Porcelain Mask: Asian Women Speak Out." The first, and the strongest, is "Sia(b)," a new play by Minnesota actor-playwright May Lee-Yang.

Encore Michigan

Chicago's Sweat Girls keep things hot at The Acorn Theater
The heat of summer is not over yet, ladies and gentlemen, as Chicago's witty and hilarious Sweat Girls return for their fifth performance at The Acorn with Sweatilicious...

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Review: Chaim's Love Song

Louisville Courier-Journal

Parade of presidents has lessons and laughs
With the 2008 election now clicking into its final phase of mudslinging and vote-begging, the comedy "43 Plays for 43 Presidents" at Actors Theatre of Louisville offers two hours of American presidential history that I promise will make you laugh.

Cleveland Plain Dearler On Stage Blog

Last sneak peek: The Hanna Theatre is FINISHED

Sneak peek video: "The Glass Menagerie" at the Cleveland Play House

Cincinnati CityBeat

Review: Grey Gardens
ETC offers amusing cautionary musical about parents and children.

CinStages Buzz Blog

Meet Alex, Mariemont's theater dog
When the curtain goes up on "Wally's Cafe" on Thursday at Mariemont Players, Alex the theater dog will be sitting stage left.

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

'Pillowman' is worth seeing, even if you've already seen it

Houston Chronicle

Ike proves a showstopper — the wrong kind
Sometimes the show can't go on. In the wake of Hurricane Ike, performance schedules of Houston theaters are getting knocked around just as the storm downed trees, power lines and billboards.

Arizona Republic

Review: 'Doubt, A Parable'
John Patrick Shanley's Doubt, a Parable could come close to being actor-proof. Even a high-school production of the Pulitzer Prize winner probably would intrigue, thanks to Shanley's taut writing and the intricately ...