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TT: So you want to see a show?
Here's my list of recommended Broadway, off-Broadway, and out-of-town shows, updated weekly. In all cases, I gave these shows favorable reviews (if sometimes qualifiedly so) in The Wall Street Journal when they opened. For more information, click on the title.

TT: Almanac
"We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end." Georg Büchner, Danton's Death (trans. Gerhard P. Knapp)

Bitter Lemons

“Cute with Chris” - 33% - Bitter

The Clyde Fitch Report

Everyone Should Read Doric Wilson's Post on Proposition 8

The Critical Condition

AdTastic: Look out! It’s Raining Shoes!

Extra Criticum

Funking It Up In Minneapolis
I have just returned from designing the sound for The Five Fingers of Funk at The Minneapolis Children's Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The show was written by Will Power with music by Justin Ellington and directed by Derrick Sanders. I...

How to Have a Nervous Breakdown Before Your Opening Night
So after realizing that I am producing my solo show a scant two days before the first performance, I had to go into overdrive. I have produced before, but when I am broke, I really don’t prefer it.One of the...

The Hub Review

Acid dreams
It seems in Boston these days you have to go off the grid to find a theatre willing to tackle plays of real intellectual challenge. Our larger houses are currently diddling with the likes of Rock and Roll or The Santaland Diaries, so it's comforting to see that companies on the fringe are still risking their rent checks on truly edgy ...

Parabasis

RIP Clive Barnes
My first memory of Clive Barnes is his big quote on the paperback edition of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead that was lying on the floor of Herxanthicles' ...

Steve On Broadway (SOB )

RIP Clive Barnes, 1927-2008

theatre notes

Review: The Women of Troy