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New
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New York critic David Spencer
reviews:
Before there was pie, there was the apple...
Falling for Eve
Book by Jo DiPietro
Music by Brett Simmons
Lyrics by David Howard
Based on the play Adam Alone by David Howard
Directed by Larry Rabin
York Theatre
The father of modern psychology
goes head to head with
the most prominent Christian thinker of his day ...
Freud's Last Session
by Mark St. Germain
Directed by Tyler Marchant
Marjorie S. Deane Little Theatre
There are new legal eagles on the case:
the new cast of
Race
Written and Directed by David Mamet
Starring Eddie Izzard, Dennis Haysbert,
Afton C. Williamson and Richard Thomas
Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Two old fogies, one last fling ...
Viagra Falls
by Joao Machado and Lou Cuttell
Directed by Don Chrichton
Starring Bernie Kopell, Lou Cuttell and Teresa Ganzel
Little Shubert Theatre
and
Not quite reviewed, but noted ...
See Rock City
Book and Lyrics by Adam Mathias
Music by Brad Alexander
Directed by Jack Cummings III
The Duke
San
Francisco critic Judy Richter
reviews:
Lou Grant for President much ... ?
FDR
by Dore Schary
Presented by San Jose Repertory Theatre
Starring Ed Asner
San Jose Repertory Theatre
A play about people and the objects that own them ...
Auctioning the Ainsleys
by Laura Schellhardt
Directed by Meredith McDonough
Presented by TheatreWorks
Lucie Stern Theatre
and
And Mother works for a living ...
Mrs. Warren's Profession
by George Bernard Shaw
Presented by California Shakespeare Theater
Directed by Timothy Near
Bruns Memorial Amphitheater
Florida critic Marie J. Kilker
reviews:
A play about a pet owner ... or is that a pet owner ... ?
Sylvia
by A. R. Gurney
Directed by Kate Alexander
Florida Studio Theatre's Keating Mainstage
Twin Cities critic Vlad Dima
reviews:
Acting lessons as life lessons ...
Circle Mirror Transformation
by Annie Baker
Directed by Benjamin McGovern
Guthrie Theater
and
Sometimes there's good so quickly ...
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
Directed by John Miller-Stephany
Guthrie Theater
Finally:
Roving Massachusetts Summer Critic Joel Greenberg Reviews:
A play about the theatre and its power to charm ...
The Guardsman
by Ferenc Molnar
Translated by Grace I.
Colbron & Hans Bartsch
Directed by John Rando
Starring Jayne Atkinson and Michel Gill
A story without purpose is not a story ...
Pool Boy
Music and Lyrics by Nikos
Tsakalakos
Book and Lyrics by Janet Allard
Directed by Daniella Topol
Barrington Stage Company – Stage 2
The Everest of Musicals ...
Sweeney Todd
Music and Lyrics by Stephen
Sondheim
Book by Hugh Wheeler
Directed by Julianne Boyd
Starring Jeff McCarthy and Harriet Harris
at Barrington Stage Company
High comedy with a darker purpose,
and a title that infiltrated the language ...
Six Degrees of Separation
by John Guare
Directed by Anne Kauffman
Starring Margaret Colin and Tim Daly
Williamstown Theatre Festival
One reason why the Jacob's Pillow dance festival
is top-of-the-list ...
Monger
by Barak Marshall
And another reason ...
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
Serenade/The
Proposition
Conceived and Directed by Bill T. Jones
Choreographed by Bill T. Jones, Janet Wong
and members of the company
at Jacob’s Pillow
And yet another ... younger ...
CND2
Artistic Director: Nacho Duato
at Jacob’s Pillow
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