12/11/08 AM Clips - Mid-West, Southwest
By Andy Propst on Dec 11, 2008 | In Central U.S., Mid-West, Southwest
Chicago Sun-Times
'Maids' is Genet's sweeping attack on high society
Enter the intimate world of the Writers' Theatre performance space in Books on Vernon -- where an astonishingly accomplished production of Jean Genet's "The Maids" is now on view -- and you ...
Theatre in Chicago
Pegasus Players Presents 23rd Annual Young Playwrights Festival
Pegasus Players will kick off the New Year with its 23rd Annual Young Playwrights Festival, a professional production of three selected one-act plays written by Chicago teenagers. This year marks the program's twenty-third annual...
Time Out Chicago
The Game Show Show…and Stuff!
Strawdog’s hit late-night programming outgrows its britches.
Review: The Maids @ Writers' Theatre
Review: Offsprung @ Rubicon Theatre Project
Edge Chicago
Our Bad Magnet
Scottish writer Douglas Maxwell, along with a gifted director and terrific actors within Mary-Archie Company...
Minneapolis City Pages
Sam Shepard's Fool for Love defines "dysfunctional relationship"
Stories of forbidden love make up at least a vertebra or two in the spine of works for the stage, for the obvious reason that raging, unbridled...
Theater Spotlight: Sindibad: Artist and Outlaw
Sindibad O'Dell collaborates with six co-creators and 46 actors to illustrate both the culturally universal and the odd and distinctive aspects...
Detroit Free Press
Planet Ant's holiday play makes slacking look like fun
Encore Michigan
Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company debuts with No Exit
Detroit celebrities join Mosaic's production of Woodward Wonderland
St. Louis Riverfront Times
Fatal Attraction: Die! Mommie! Die! is crass, twisted and naughty. What's not to love?
There once was a magical time when everything a celebrity said was so important the words had to be declaimed in a quasi-British accent and with...
Tap City: Webster's student production of Stepping Out doesn't miss a beat
Cincinnati Enquirer
Playhouse cancels 'Angelica' shows
Citing the high cost of change-over between shows and low single ticket sales, Playhouse in the Park is canceling the final week of Travels of Angelica
Cincinnati CityBeat
Curtain Call: Theaters, Actors, Etc.
Cause for Hope
Review: A Christmas Carol
Playhouse sustains holiday traditions.
Review: Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night has a celebratory, smiling tone.
Review: The Women
NKU has a mob of actresses for The Women.
Dallas Morning News
Theatre Britain's 'Little Red Riding Hood' is jolly good at KD Studio Theatre
It may be Kevin Scott Keating's first time in a dress, or so we've been told. But as Mother Hood, he takes to the cross-dressing craziness of Theatre Britain's latest panto, Little Red Riding Hood , brilliantly – to use a favorite British word.
Dallas Morning News Arts Blog
Broadway Diary December 2008 - Watch this space
I leave for New York in the morning to check out four new musicals, the Roundabout revival of Rodgers and Hart's Pal Joey and Horton Foote's play Dividing the Estate, newly arrived on Broadway.
Edge Dallas
Closer Than Ever
The musical revue "Closer Than Ever" weaves an insightful narrative about the foibles, disappointments,
Houston Press
The Season Brings a Mixed Bag of Christmas Shows
Filled with specters and overlaid with deafening thunder and seas of fog, the Alley's A Christmas Carol reeks of Halloween, not Yuletide. There's...
Arizona Republic
Review: Spring Awakening
The magic of theater is its power to transform the stage into a world unto itself. This power is what makes Spring Awakening one of the most startling Broadway musicals to visit Arizona.
'Putnam County Spelling Bee' is definition of good-natured fun
The six ''children'' competing in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee couldn't be more different, but they hardly represent a cross-section of America.
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