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Los Angeles Times

L.A. to host ambitious 10-week arts festival
Add another Ring to the Olympics legacy. A months-long extravaganza is planned for spring 2010, linked to L.A. Opera's staging of Wagner's 'Ring' cycle.

Criss Angel, in a word: unbelievable

Los Angeles Times Culture Monster Blog

Jon Lawrence Rivera's split personality
Jon Lawrence Rivera can be excused if his mind is wandering somewhere between a Chinese village and the barrio.

Orange County Register Theater byPaul Hodgins Blog

‘Spring Awakening’ opens at the Ahmanson
Read my review of those crazy, sex-addled German teens that populate Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater’s Tony-winning musical.

Whither the critic (Big Apple edition)
Even mighty Manhattan is witness to the dying profession of arts criticism. Tart-tongued New York Post theater scribe Michael Riedel writes about the latest round of departures from his realm.

San Francisco Examiner

Berkeley Playhouse's `BFG' is big, fun and great

San Jose Mercury News

Arts and Culture for the Cash-Strapped

Sacramento Bee

Theater Review: 'Sound of Music' is a Runaway hit
The Runaway Stage production of "The Sound of Music" now at the 24th Street Theater isn't perfect, but it's close enough. Director Bob Baxter and the folks at RSP have looked at all the reasons not to do this play – everybody's seen it, for one – and found plenty of good reasons to do it.

San Diego Union Tribune

North Coast Rep's 'Don't Dress' success is all in the delivery
In a weird way, farce is just tragedy stuffed into a clown suit. Think of the MacBeths, those zany, sketchy Scots whose ill-advised tries at gaining and retaining the throne get crossed up like a bad plaid. Might be funny, if not for all the fatalities.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Bartlett Sher gets second job heading a theater in New York
Bartlett Sher, artistic director of Seattle's Intiman Theatre since 2000, has been named resident director of the Lincoln Center Theater in New York.

The Oregonian

Callboard
Playwright Competition: Lakewood Theatre Company and the Arts Council of Lake Oswego will accept new plays that have never been produced. The winning play will be performed as a staged reading by professional actors. Deadline for submission is today. Details: www.artscouncillo.org (submission guidelines) or 503-675-3738.