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New Features this Edition:

New York City critic David Spencer reviews:

The famous light comedy goes even more lite ...
Enter Laughing: The Musical
Book by Joseph Stein
Music and Lyrics by Stan Daniels
Based on the play by Joseph Stein
From the novel by Carl Reiner
Directed by Stuart Ross
A Production of the York Theatre

and

Reviewed more briefly:
What's That Smell?: The Music of Jacob Sterling
The Tempest (starring Mandy Patinkin)
Oklahoma! (at Paper Mill Playhouse)
The English Channel by Robert Brustein (at the Abingdon)
with a personal sidebar on:
A Tale of Two Cities

New York City critic Adasha Greenwood reviews:

'Tis a far, far more comprehensive review
than the personal sidebar above ...
A Tale of Two Cities
based on the novel by Charles Dickens
Directed and Choreographed by Warren Carlyle
Book, Music and Lyrics by Jill Santoriello
Al Hirschfeld Theatre

San Francisco critic Judy Richter reviews:

It's all about how much you can bare ...
The Full Monty
Music and lyrics by David Yazbek
Book by Terrence McNally
Directed and Choreographed by Stephen Bourneuf
Presented by American Musical Theatre of San Jose
San Jose Center for the Performing Arts

Well, why not cast an actor named Morf
to play a female ... ?
Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare
Presented by California Shakespeare Theater
Directed by Mark Rucker
Bruns Memorial Amphitheater

The real tragedy is the playwright's untimely death;
and not having seen the classic his comedy would become ...
The Foreigner
by Larry Shue
Presented by San Jose Repertory Theatre
Directed by Andrew Barnicle
San Jose Repertory Theatre

and

On the one hand, it's very deep.
On the other, it's only ...
Rock 'n' Roll
by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Carey Perloff
Presented by and at the American Conservatory Theater

Philadelphia critic Claudia Perry reviews:

Yet another current production of
the political manifesto with a backbeat ...
Rock 'n' Roll
by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Blanka Zizka
Wilma Theater

Florida critic Marie J. Kilker reviews:

A classic musical, to be sure ...
but alsoa product of its time that takes
a very canny sensibility to keep it from seeming
as dated as it might ... or as it is ...
Company
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by George Furth
Directed and Choreographed by Jared E. Walker
Starring Jason Kimble as Robert
The Players

Critic Joel Greenberg reviews:

What do
The President,
After the Dance,
The Little Foxes,
A Little Night Music,
The Stepmother,
and
Follies
have in common?
The Shaw Festival, 2008

Critic Robin Breon reviews:

An ugly duckling and her summer-stud BF
trip the light and suggestive fantastic ...
Dirty Dancing
Written by Eleanor Bergstein
Directed by James Powell
Through February 2009
Royal Alexandra Thatre

and

There's already a Broadway buzz around it ...
Caesar and Cleopatra
by George Bernard Shaw
Directed by Des McAnuff
Starring Christopher Plummer and Nikki M. James
Stratford Festival

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