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First Night Reviews - Guys and Dolls - a selection as of 10:00PM EST - [mine will be running on TheaterMania - Andy]

Associated Press

A Disappointing 'Guys and Dolls' Hits Times Square
Nicely-Nicely Johnson. Harry the Horse. Liver Lips Louie. Brandy Bottle Bates. Benny Southstreet. Scranton Slim. Big Jule. Not to mention the Hot Box girls and the folks at Save-A-Soul Mission. What have they done to you colorful characters?.

USA Today

'Guys and Dolls' Broadway revival isn't exactly a sure bet
Imagine having dinner in a fabulous restaurant with two couples. One pair is delightfully witty and has sizzling chemistry; the other two seem so awkward that it's almost painful to be with them. ...

Variety

Review: Guys and Dolls
...Fronted by four likable leads whose collective charisma never rises above medium wattage, the production sucks the personality out of an American musical-theater classic. The consolation is that even in this misconceived presentation, the show itself is too good not to be at least minimally entertaining.

Back Stage

Guys and Dolls reviewd by Adam R. Perlman
Did someone forget to baptize Guys and Dolls? Seems unlikely — but how else to explain why a nigh-perfect musical entertainment has been plunged into limbo, suspended between cartoon and noir in director Des McAnuff's appalling revival.

Talkin' Broadway

Review: Guys and Dolls
Is anything more dispiriting than knowing within the first minutes that the revival you’re watching of a traditionally hilarious musical comedy isn’t going to be funny? That’s exactly the specter haunting the Nederlander Theatre, where director Des McAnuff is ostensibly presenting Guys and Dolls, albeit one that kicks off with petty theft, bank robbery, and murder (well, sort of). Rolling in the aisles yet, kids? . . .

CurtainUp

Review: Guys and Dolls
A revival that doesn't do justice to Runyon's flavorful vernacular

 

New York Times

Civil Rights, and Wrongs, in Alabama
Tracey Scott Wilson’s new play, “The Good Negro,” imagines a troubled moment in the American civil rights movement.

>Pumping Life Into a Performance Scene
Miles Marek, producing director and a founder of the Fairfield Theater Company, is turning a swath of suburban Connecticut into an unlikely arts incubator.

New York Daily News

Stars of new 'Guys & Dolls' kiss and tell
As the Broadway revival of 'Guys and Dolls' prepares to open, we sat down with stars Craig Bierko and Kate Jennings Grant to talk about bringing the classic musical to life again.

>Stars of 'West Side Story' prepare to heat up the stage
The much-anticipated revival of 'West Side Story' is about to dance back to Broadway. The new Maria and Tony - Josefina Scaglione and Matt Cavenaugh - spoke to us about bringing the classic romance to...

New York Post

Out, damned bart!
'Macbeth' takes Springfield turn in 'Machomer'

Hartford Courant

Anika Noni Rose Performing In Hartford
When film, Broadway and television star Anika Noni Rose was a dreamy-eyed kid growing up in Bloomfield years before her leap to fame as a star in the mega-hit movie musical "Dreamgirls," she dreamed of someday becoming either a veterinarian or a

Hartford Courant Behind the Curtain Blog

Michael Feinstein Develops New Musicals
...One of the works is a musical based on the 1968 film, "The Thomas Crown Affair," which starred Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway, directed by Norman Jewison, about a cool millionaire who plans a bank heist and a sexy insurance investigator who is after him....

Playbill

* ON THE RECORD: Maggie Flynn, and Solo Albums from Ann Hampton Callaway and Jill O'Hara

Louisville Courier-Journal

Actress-turned-playwright has script in her genes
Like the characters in her new play, Zoe Kazan is forging her own identity in a world where her name is already famous. The 25-year-old is making her playwriting debut at the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville

Chicago Tribune

'Strange Interlude': Greatest bad play or worst great play?

Austin American Statesman

Playwright at work
Steven Dietz wins praise for plays, but aiding young writers is his top priority

Denver Post

Chasing Molly Brown

Los Angeles Times Culture Monster Blog

Paul Lynde play at Exit Theatre gets pulled over copyright claim
In a game of theatrical tic-tac-toe over who has the right to tell comic Paul Lynde's story on stage, a West Hollywood writer-actor has put a big X in the path of a small San Francisco theater company that had scheduled its own solo-actor take on the "Hollywood Squares" celebrity.

San Francisco Chronicle

No Leftist Group Left Behind
National tour of actor's readings from Howard Zinn's 1980 "People's History of the United States" stops in S.F.

Seattle Times

5th Avenue season's unique "Catch": a musical based on Spielberg film
Theater news: Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre announces its 2009-10 season, including a new musical version of the hit Steven Spielberg film "Catch Me If You Can," a tour of the Broadway revival of "South Pacific," staged by Intiman Theatre's Bartlett Sher, and the "Legally Blonde" tour.

The Times UK

Talking to . . . As You Like It’s director Tim Supple
'There is an open, mythic possibility that comes from Shakespeare when you don’t have people who all look and sound the same'

Daily Telegraph

'Racist' play sparks real stage fight at National Theatre
The National Theatre has staged some powerful work in recent years, but this weekend the drama was entirely unscripted. During a discussion about the play England People Very Nice at the Olivier on Friday, two protesters mounted the stage to accuse the author of racism.

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