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5/31/09 AM Clips - Midwest, Southwest, Mountain
By Andy Propst on May 31, 2009 | In Central U.S., Mid-West, Southwest, Mountain
Chicago Tribune
2009 TONY AWARDS: What will win, and what are Broadway's coulda shoulda's
Glorious gospel music held down by storytelling tangle
So they've made jukebox musicals out of Elvis, ABBA and 1980s rock ballads. Why not try making one out of gospel music, in the tradition of great African-American churches?
Chicagoist
A Script at Second City?
Script is not the first word that comes to mind when you think about improv, but Second City’s training center likes to try new things. Hence the brand-new scripted musical, The Timeless Tale of New Portsmouth. Set in 1876, the show explores the life of New Englanders ...
Daily Herald
Director returns to his roots at Drury Lane
Marriott's 'Spelling Bee' worth the buzz
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Theater review: '800 Words' cast over the moon
They meet the challenge of bringing the surrealistic meanderings of science fiction writer Philip K. Dick's mind to life.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
BLM takes an energetic romp through the 'Field'
Carl Flink creates dances that honor the lives and values of ordinary working people. There is a cleanness and clarity about the way his company of fearless movers sluice through space, as if they were clearing the air of arty pretension
Papatola: Minneapolis Musical Theatre finds happiness with gay theater selections
Minneapolis Musical Theatre is not a gay theater company, per se, but it has never been a company to hide its lavender streak, either
Encore Michigan
* Stratford season gets underway officially Monday, June 1
Williamston delivers one for the boys
It's been a year since Williamston Theatre unveiled the first installment of its Voices From The Midwest series, but the second work of this trilogy, Flyover USA: Voices from Men of the Midwest, ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Song-heavy plays expose different heartaches
'Blues in the Night', 'The Last 5 Years'
Louisville Courier-Journal
One hot musical
Steven Sater spent nearly seven years developing "Spring Awakening" for Broadway, writing and rewriting the book; working with his friend, rock musician Duncan Sheik, on an ambitious score. Catch it this week at the Kentucky Center.
Cincinnati Enquirer
CCM presents 20th-century classics
College-Conservatory of Music's 2009-10 main stage season will be dominated by some of the best 20th-century's drama, musical theater and opera.
CDT trims two acts from season
Review: KAZ/m
At first, KAZ/m seems an odd selection for Performance Gallery, a Cincinnati theater that relishes life at the theater's outer limits. If it’s traditional, it’s not for them
Review: Painted
An interesting and enjoyable piece of performance art created by Kendall Karg and White Beard Productions.
Review: Call Me
Yes, it's fun. But it engages the senses in a ways that few of the other shows can. It's a crap shoot. And it's wildly invigorating.
Review: No Stranger Than Home
A more appropriate title for this collection of monologues at Art Academy of Cincinnati would be It's All About Me.
Review: The Edge
A strong performance of what is, essentially, a 45-minute monologue.
Cincinnati CityBeat
Review: The 4 Food Groups
Players of Pones Inc. find fresh and fun ways to explore sex, food, interpersonal relationships and more.
Review: Call Me
An ingenious concoction that uses a staple of 21st-century life, your very own cell phone, to make theater on the streets of Over-the-Rhine and in your head.
Review: The Edge
A beautifully measured, well-polished character study that should enrich the whole fabric of the this year's Fringe.
Review: Incredulity
What you look for in an improv troupe is trust and familiarity, and the Incredulities display both.
Review: Sex, Dreams, and Self Control!
Kevin Thornton's Sex, Dreams and Self-Control is a tour de force.
TheaterJones
Sappy Days
Fonzie's back--snap!--in a new musical that already feels like a rerun.
"Tuna" Delight
Taking this trip to Texas' third-smallest town feels like the first time.
Houston Chronicle
Alley Theatre announces lineup for new season
Three world premieres, including a new musical by Jekyll & Hyde composer Frank Wildhorn, plus recent London/Broadway successes Boeing-Boeing and The 39 Steps, are among the newsworthy items in the 2009-10 season
Arizona Republic
Stars of Valley Youth Theatre
Valley Youth Theatre alumni Jordin Sparks, "Superbad's" Emma Stone, Disney's Chelsea Staub and Broadway's Max Crumm will perform May 31 in Phoenix.
Denver Post
Civic landlord demands $100,000 by Monday
The operators of the New Denver Civic Theatre are more than eight months and $100,000 behind on rent, taxes and other fees, and have until Monday to pay up.
Video podcast: Chazz Palminteri 05
Chazz Palminteri talks directly to Denver Post readers about why they should come see his one-man play, "A Bronx Tale" at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House from June 9-21
5/30/09 AM Clips - Midwest, Southwest, Mountain
By Andy Propst on May 30, 2009 | In Central U.S., Mid-West, Southwest, Mountain
Chicago Tribune
Hey everyone! Free 'Million Dollars'
The hit show "Million Dollar Quartet" is based on an actual event in December 1956 -- a time when the fates of rock 'n' roll aligned and Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins all turned up at Sun Records in Memphis and put on a jam session. According to Tribune critic
Selling a Hilter musical in Berlin is no springtime picnic
Chicago Tribune Theater Loop Blog
Seductive, honest 'Graceland' should be Fairey's breakout play
Chicago Sun-Times
'Graceland' gets to heart of matter
"Graceland," the wonderfully wise and rueful new play by Ellen Fairey -- now in a funny, touching, gracefully tuned world premiere at Profiles Theatre ...
Steppenwolf Theatre Company Blog
Casting The Tempest
Hello – Tina here, the director of The Tempest. I’m thrilled that this conversation is being had on our blog – so thank you to all of you who have contributed.
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Spotlight: "Spider's Web"
Director Peter Moore has set the classic Agatha Christie whodunit in the 1960s and brought back Steve Hendrickson and Bob Davis, the stars of last year's smash hit "Sherlock Holmes."
"A Bronx Tale":Taking it personal
Chazz Palminteri revisits the coming-of-age story that helped give him the boost he needed in show business.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Author's life gets twisty treatment he'd appreciate
I'm not a huge fan of the work of science fiction author Philip K. Dick, but I have a hunch that, were he alive today, he'd appreciate the play being committed in his name at The Playwrights' Center.
'Power Balladz' a guilty pleasure for Bic-flicking arena concert fans
Michael Todaro describes his new show, "Power Balladz," as a show for "people who remember dancing in the gym to 'Faithfully.'
Detroit Free Press
Musicals, favorites set for Detroit
Six major Broadway musicals will debut in Detroit during the Nederlander 2009-2010 season, according to a schedule released Friday.
Encore Michigan
* BoarsHead brings one-woman cabaret to stage for one weekend only
* Broadway in Detroit 2009-2010: Sensational hits make their Detroit debuts
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
Milwaukee's Quasi 'Henry V' doesn't cut it
The local theater community bravely and gallantly responded to the sudden closing of Milwaukee Shakespeare late last year.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The blues takes center stage in Black Rep revue
When Ron Himes founded the St. Louis Black Repertory Company in 1976, he made musical revues a staple of its repertoire for the simplest of reasons: They built his fledgling troupe's audience
Pascal chats about his return to 'Rent'
Louisville Courier-Journal
Slave's life told in play
In "Voice of the Fugitive," a sharecropper's daughter who became a historian and author tells the story of a former Kentucky slave involved in the Underground Railroad. The play, by Carridder Jones, 73, of Glenview, Ky., is based on the autobiography of Henry Bibb...
Cleveland Plain Dealer On Stage Blog
'Quake' at Convergence-Continuum Friday night: Quickie video review from Aisle Say
What's opening this weekend (May 29-31): 'Aisle Say' episode No. 2
Cincinnati Enquirer
Body Language II: PHYS ED.
A mini-powerhouse of a show, one that is fun and deliciously freewheeling
Cincinnati CityBeat
Villainy
Shakespeare, you can understand being intimidated inserting one’s own voice into the proceedings. But that clearly is what this piece calls for. And when Baldwin and his cast do that, the show works best.
Four Wishes
There's a magical moment when the audience realizes that we, too, have gotten everything we might have wished for from Four Wishes, we just needed patience to recognize it
Cemetery Golf
Loucks has the master storyteller's art locked.
Brother Bailey's Pageant of Moral Superiority and Creation Science Island Jamboree
You wanna know what "sophomoric" means? You can look it up in your Webster...or you could just go see a Fringe Festival performance of this show.
Where Drunk Men Go: A Poem with Music
Where Drunk Men Go is a mature show in the truest sense. It does not ask for answers but takes its experience straight from the bottle.
Jacques Brel's Lonsesome Losers of the Night
Troubled that Lonesome Losers of the Night is not more dramatically compelling.
Body Language II: PHYS ED.
The students are types, not individuals, the better to deal with typical emotions. It's shorthand, and it works.
The Terrorism of Everyday Life
He's fast, he's funny, he’s smart as the proverbial whip and somewhere in his psyche he has a feeling for family that can't be shelved
WLWT
Video: Fringe Festival Kicks Off in Cincinnati
Festival occupies Over-the-Rhine for the next few weeks.
CinStages Buzz Blog
Where in the world is David Hull? Hint -- it's Skyline time...
Yuk it up with the Bard and ... it's a busy night
Dallas Morning News
Theater Review: 'Jihad Jones' hits its mark when it goes for the funny bone
Edge Dallas
Lost in the Stars
Theatre 3 is staging a gripping, rare production of Maxwell Anderson’s and Kurt Weill’s Lost in the Stars, a musical stage adaptation of Alan Paton’s novel of racial conflict in 1949 South Africa : Cry, The Beloved Country.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Summer arts preview for Dallas-Fort Worth
TheaterJones
How I Became a Player
Playwright and director Brad McEntire writes about his pilgrimage to Edwin Booth's hang.
Let There Be Light
t looks like the fight to save theatrical lighting designers from Texas House Bill 2649—which would have required designers to be either licensed electricians or registered as an architect or interior designer—has been effective.
How Great Thou Aren't
Mahalia Jackson musical loses steam at Jubilee Theatre.
Death Becomes Them
Reviews: "Death: The Musical" at Pocket Sandwich and "Dead Man's Cell Phone" at Stage West
Austinist
Review: Oceana at the Vortex [Theatre]
Oceana, currently playing at the Vortex Theater, is a cross between Cirque de Soleil and SpongeBob Squarepants.
Houstonist
Weekend-ist May 29-31: Hedwig, Found films, inflatable sculptures, Joy Dance and Animals
Unhinged Productions, a GLBT-friendly theater production company in Houston, finishes it's month-long run of Hedwig and the Angry Inch this weekend. Fans of the film would be remiss not to see the ....
Denver Post
"Quilters": A sentimental journey that's also harrowing ***
When cast sings "She's the one who makes the light shine," the ensemble they're talking about fictional matriarch Sarah, and Kathleen M. Brady, the actor who portrays her for the Denver Center Theatre Company.
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