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New York critic David Spencer
reviews:
An up-close, personal—and fanciful—
portrait of a bygone era's "first lady of the theatre,"
Katherine Cornell ...
The Grand Manner
by A.R. Gurney
Directed by Mark Lamos
Starring Kate Burton
with Boyd Gaines, Bobby Steggert and Brenda Wehle
Mitzi Newhouse Theatre
at Lincoln Center
Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew, Money,
Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew, Money, Jew.
How do you reconcile great art with bigotry ... ?
The Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Daniel Sullivan
Starring Al Pacino
featuring Byron Jennings, Jesse L. Martin and Lily Rabe
A Production of the Joseph Papp/Public Theatre New York Shakespeare Festival
at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park
(newly added)
Half and half...
The Winter's Tale
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Michael Grief
Featuring Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Jesse L. Martin, Linda Emond,
Byron Jennings, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Max Wright
A Production of the Joseph Papp Public Theatre
New York Shakespeare Festival
at the Delacorte in Central Park
Philadelphia critic Claudia Perry
reviews:
Jews without money ... but with a lotta great songs ...
(that made a lotta money) ...
Fiddler on the Roof
Book by Joseph Stein
Music by Jerry Bock
Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
Based on Sholem Aleichem stories
by special permission of Arnold Perl
Directed by Bruce Lumpkin
Starring Mark Jacoby
Walnut Street Theatre
San
Francisco critic Judy Richter
reviews:
"Abby ... Normal ..."
The National Tour of
Young Frankenstein
Music and Lyrics by Mel Brooks
Book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan
Directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman
Presented by Best of Broadway
Golden Gate Theatre
What do
Well
by Lisa Kron,
Ruined
by Lynn Nottage,
She Loves Me
by Bock, Harnick and Masterhoff,
and
Pride and Prejudice
adapted from Austen by Hanreddy and Sullivan
Have in common?
The 2010 Oregon Shakespeare Festival!
Florida critic Marie J. Kilker
reviews:
If you love me, baby, love me loud ...
Beehive: The 60s Musical
Created by Larry Gallagher
Directed by
Fred Weiss
Florida
Studio Theatre
They still haunt you ...
Ghosts
by Henrik Ibsen
Translated by Rick Davis & Brian
Johnston
Directed by Gil Lazier
Banyan Theater Company
Cook Theatre at FSU Center for the Performing Arts
The French bard has
never been more accessible ...
Moliere Than Thou
Scenes by Jean Baptiste de Poquelin Moliere
Adapted, Translated, & Introduced by Timothy Mooney
Starring Timothy Mooney
AACT International 2010 Festival
Venice Theatre
Toronto critic Robin Breon
reviews (NEW):
Backstage craziness, done to perfection...a revival of
Jitters
by David French
Directed by Ted Dykstra
Featuring Diane D'Aquila and C.
David Johnson
Who can follow the late William Hutt as Prospero?
There can be only one ...
The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Des McAnuff
Starring Christopher Plummer
Stratford Shakespeare Festival
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