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Review: Frost/Nixon

Potomac Stages

Review: Boom

Philadelphia Inquirer

Accents ring false - characters, too
The most strikingly false note in The Last Night of Ballyhoo, which opened Friday at the Montgomery Theater, comes in its ending - but, gee, that's messy to describe without blowing the story line. I'll finesse it later. There's plenty more where that comes from.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Youngest audience members learn golden rules of theater
The theater-goers were fidgeting and talking over each other before the curtain went up. One even let out a primal cry before running through the aisles.

CMU takes enchanting trip 'Into the Woods'
Great shows are continually reborn. And Stephen Sondheim and James Laine's "Into the Woods" is a great musical, witty and wise, with the broad compassion and complexity of a Shakespearean comedy.

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Nov. 18: Scenes from the Arts-burgh
'Into the Woods' reviewed, also...'Mary Shelley and Her Frankenstein'

Baltimore Sun

Though syrupy, long, 'Grinch' will steal kids' hearts

Richmond Times-Dispatch

Holiday hilarity from Texas town characters
'A Tuna Christmas' is a two-actor tour de force at theater

Boston Herald

‘Seafarer’ loses its way
A memo to the minions of hell: Your boss is starting to slip. Times were,Satan was one scary s.o.b.; these...

Miami Herald

Carbonell Awards for theater take intermission
Coming up on the 33rd annual ceremony, the Carbonell Awards board votes to suspend the program in 2009 to regroup.

Child's plays: But adults like them, too
Already this season, families have journeyed to Oz together. This week and next, they'll watch a special car take wing to rescue an old man from some family-phobic villains. And soon they'll be able to see the return of a red-haired orphan, a collection of singing cats, athletic performers leading them on a jungle adventure.

Sun Sentinel

'Gates of Choice' heartfelt but uneven
Playwrights do not magically appear in public fully formed. But their freshman efforts are a promise of what might be...

Sarasota Herald-Tribune

'Barnum' is 3 rings of song and dance

Sarasota Herald-Tribune 24/7 Blog

'Barnum' star up for Los Angeles award

St. Petersburg Times

In the wings: You're no sucker if you go see 'Barnum'