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Will Hugh Jackman work his magic on Broadway again?

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The Big Oh Well
Politics and the Ovation Awards

CURRENTLY PLAYING NOVEMBER 27, 2008

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Review: Daddy's Dyin'...Who's Got The Will?
This captivating comedy by award-winning playwright-screenwriter Del Shores (Southern Baptist Sissies, Sordid Lives) premiered at Theatre/Theater's original Hollywood site in 1987, where it enjoyed a two-year run. Taking an innovative slant in this revival, director Jeff Murray cast all roles except one with African-American actors.

Review: Leaving Iowa
Cornpone is just a trip away in Iowa's environs, or so playwrights Tim Clue and Spike Manton would have us believe. Their quasi-sentimental tale about the Brownings' family vacations in the Midwest from the perspective of Don (Kevin Symons) Browning, son to larger-than-life Dad (Gregory North) and pre-feminism Mom (Jill Brennan), covers a lot of familiar territory if you have ever taken a family vacation by car

Review: The Little Dog Laughed
We've seen countless send-ups of the crass Hollywood film industry, but Douglas Carter Beane's Tony-nominated play — driven by the fiendishly manipulative focal character of a barracuda agent — is among the most resonant and bitingly funny, skewering its targets with unbridled glee.

Review: West Side Story
It takes chutzpah to mount a big, legendary show like West Side Story — as well-known for its spectacular choreography by Jerome Robbins as for its score by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim — in a (relatively) small 99-Seat theatre.

Review: Woyzeck
Although Georg Büchner began this play before his death at age 23 in 1837, his unfinished manuscript has been repeatedly "completed" over the years by scholars of various generations and political affiliations.

Review: A Majority of One
I'm sure in its day -- and that day was half a century ago -- this Leonard Spigelgass drama about working one's way through entrenched prejudice might have resonated, but now it just thuds.

San Francisco Examiner

Calling all teen Shakespeares!

Contra Costa Times

'Phantom of the Opera' returns to S.F.
The musical plays at the Orpheum Theatre through Jan. 4.

Curtain Calls -- Take it from an expert: 'Mame' seizes her role

San Francisco Weekly

The Devil's in the Details
George Bernard Shaw tackles Brit reserve during the American Revolution.

Naught Funny
A Greek classic gets turned into a screwball comedy.

Evie's Waltz
The Magic Theatre's new artistic director, Loretta Greco, has hit a second solid home run with Evie's Waltz. It takes about half an hour before...

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Seattle Weekly

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Getting laid before the Apocalypse presents an entertaining challenge at the Rep.

Sum of Their Parts
A new theater company makes it past the drunken-idea stage.

The Stranger

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Rest In Peace, Douglas N. Paasch

The Oregonian

Kazm! bounces back with new faces
Kazm!, a troupe of three men and two women who use elements of acrobatics, acrobalance, dance, gymnastics and cheerleading, is a fixture at the Oregon Country Fair as well as those avant-garde circuses that seem to be everywhere these days.