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Chicago theater groups need homes of their own
The Chicago renaissance in the performing arts was built on...

Chicago Sun-Times

A 'Gatsby' greater than sum of its parts
These days, as a major recession looms, there might be no more perfect American classic to turn to than F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby...

Theatre in Chicago

Cut To The Quick - A Festival of Short Works
One acts from Chicagoans Sean Graney, Brett Neveu, Laura Jacqmin and Mark Young are among those lined up for the side project theatre company's fall one-act festival, Cut to the Quick which will ...

Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Exploring the perilous reefs of grief
The sweet love story of C.S. Lewis and Joy Davidman Gresham has flashes of heartbreak in a solid Dowling production.

St. Paul Pioneer Press

Fine acting, intelligent staging power 'Blackbird'
We hear heavy breathing in the darkness before "Blackbird" begins — suggesting a sex act — but when the lights go up, we see a young woman practically hyperventilating with stress as she stares at a man in his 50s.

Papatola: Let's get down to dreaming about using funding from Legacy Amendment
Thank you 1,634,027 times for passing the constitutional amendment that will help Minnesota preserve and protect its environmental and cultural landscape.

Encore Michigan

Beatles tribute to make Michigan premiere in Grand Rapids

The Abreact brings poetry to life in new space
The Abreact is a theater company known for tackling inventive, unconventional works. This season, it has also become known as a theater without a home. With its latest offering, Tongues and Savage/Love, ...

Jack goes boating, trusting and loving
Bob Glaudini's play, Jack Goes Boating, now in production at the Blackbird Theatre in Ann Arbor, is best summed up...

mLive.com

Savion Glover's style of tap dance is 'a gift to all who encounter it'

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Review: 'Little Dog Laughed'
Does a lesbian with great shoes rule the world?

Arizona Republic

Arizona Theatre Company presents play
The Lady With All the Answers, a stage salute to Ann Landers, "is very much like her columns," says playwright David Rambo. "There's a little heart, a little humor and a lot of sex." ...

Efron not ready to strip on stage
Zac Efron won't be starring in the Broadway play Equus because he is not brave enough. The High School Musical heartthrob was mentioned as taking over from the New York show's current star...

Review: 'Sin'
"Alternative" is not a label that Chyro's Voice Theatre aspires to, but I think it fits. Oh, Chyro doesn't match the stereotypical definition - lots of nudity, sex and violence onstage - but it is one of a handful of small companies...

Review: 'Petrushka'
The Phoenix Symphony has taken many chances under its current music director. Most of them have paid off handsomely. This week's concert featured three of them: a newly commissioned piece of music honoring the...

Review: 'Eat the Taste'
Eat the Taste, an amusingly absurd bashing of Broadway and the Bush administration, is the right comedy at the wrong time. In the original New York production four years ago, playwright Greg Kotis starred as himself, ...

Denver Post

Obama's victory elates friends of Shadow Theatre

Why girls' night out is in again

Daily Camera

Review: 'Fuddy Meers' a dark but sweet comedy