11/27/08 AM Clips - Mid-Atlantic, New England, South
By Andy Propst on Nov 27, 2008 | In East Coast, Mid-Atlantic, New England, South
Washington Post
'Peter Pan' at Olney Theatre Center
You can have your "Peter Pan" served as light as Disney or as dark as death, but if you've ordered up the 1954 musical version, you want the show to fly.
Washington City Paper
All's Well That Ends Well: Marital Diss
The best-known of Shakespeare's "problem plays" presents problems too great to solve.
Philadelphia City Paper
Holidays Ex Machina
Local stages plot to cure your winter discontent.
Tangled Web
Dark Play or Stories for Boys at Theatre Exile
Philadelphia Weekly
Run Through
Kala Moses Baxter as Nella in Gee's Bend
Primp and Circumstance
Hairspray is a joyous escape from the real world.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
'The Brothers Size' tells a mythical tale in a mechanic's shop
Mythic and specific, gritty and grand -- City Theatre's "The Brothers Size" is intimate and epic, a robust tale of two Louisiana bayou brothers.
'Spamalot' delivers silliness, puns, bawdy jokes and chorines
The souvenir pedlars are back with their coconuts, killer rabbits and Spam, which can only mean it's time to look on the bright side of life with "Monty Python's Spamalot."
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Gemini Theater gives 'Sleeping Beauty' a wake-up call
"A Sleeping Beauty Holiday," which plays on weekends for the next month at Gemini Theater in Point Breeze, tells the classic story of the beautiful girl, Aurora, who falls under the spell of an evil fairy when Aurora pricks her finger on her 16th birthday. Aurora falls asleep for 100 years but is freed by the kiss of a prince. It's the in-between details that take a comical turn.
Boston Globe
'Skylight' filters love, ideals
The Merrimack Repertory Theatre production of David Hare's play "Skylight" ebbs and flows with a rhythm that manages to be both unsettling and inspiring.
Boston Phoenix
Reviews: Einstein's Dreams, Skylight
Einstein dreams in Central Square; Skylight is illumined in Lowell
Providence Journal
The holiday starts tomorrow on stage
No question the holiday season is under way. Tomorrow is Black Friday, and if you stop over at Trinity Rep, you can catch the theater’s annual production of A Christmas Carol this weekend. This year the theater has turned the Dickens classic over to director Liesl Tommy, a Trinity Conservatory graduate, who promises lots of flying ghosts and plenty of snow.
Providence Phoenix
Review: The Miracle Worker
2nd Story's stirring Miracle Worker
Portland Phoenix
Review: The Pain and the Itch
The Pain and the Itch is no cozy reunion
Orlando Sentinel
'An Inspector Calls': The conflict makes it captivating
Orlando Weekly
Mad Cow's two tales
British thriller and Irish tearjerker
Miami Herald
Season opens with big showbiz dreams
Avi Hoffman's New Vista Theatre Company has just kicked off its season with a musical that is, as they say in the wedding biz, something old and something new.
Sun-Sentinel
'Enter Laughing' comes up short, sadly
Every time you are about to give up on finding something barely entertaining in New Vista Theatre Company's Enter Laughing, somebody unleashes a showstopping song or a truly funny joke flies by.
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Struthers struts in 'Nunsense'
St. Petersburg Times
Neil Simon stories of marriage come to Leepa-Rattner
Stage West actor polishes his gem of a royal story
Dixie puts on a fine Tupperware party
Creative Loafing - Atlanta
Theatrical Outfit and Atlanta Radio Theatre Company get some air time with holiday plays
Creative Loafing - Charlotte
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