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Los Angeles Times The Envelope

'Mamma Mia!' — Could Meryl Streep make Golden Globe history?

'Mamma Mia!' was snubbed five times at the Tonys, but — oh, sweet revenge! — it's still running on Broadway

Estelle Getty was a true 'Golden Girl'

Orange County Register Theater by Paul Hodgins Blog

Rapp’s “Nocturne” to open at Rude Guerrilla

L.A. City Beat

Passing L.A. By
Don Shirley throws a Parade for the Negro Problem

Currently Playing: July 24, 2008
[capsule reviews]

San Francisco Examiner

Free theater in the gardens
The San Francisco Theater Festival is a smorgasbord of live performance unlike any other. In the span of just one day, more than 100 acts are set to deliver a truly comprehensive sampling of what the Bay Area’s theater community has to offer.

Chad Jones' Theater Dogs Blog

Free theater at SF Theater Festival

San Jose Mercury News

TheatreWorks' 'Doubt' inspires after-curtain conversations
By crossing the fine line between belief and certainty, a nun triggers the primary conflict in "Doubt," the thought-provoking Pulitzer Prize-winner produced by TheatreWorks at Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto

A strong start for Shakespeare Santa Cruz

San Francisco Weekly

More Is Less
There's a perverse universal principle that states that the harder one tries, the more likely one is to fail. It's only when one stops putting in...

Review: Tartuffe
The 17th-century comedy Tartuffe—probably the best-known of Molière's plays—was a controversial sensation in its day, and it...

Review: The Lorca Summer Festival: Blood Wedding
Plays by Spanish playwright Federico García Lorca can be tricky to produce. They juxtapose stylized prose with poetic verse, and are wide...

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San Francisco Guardian

Between two worlds and then some
Ishi: The Last of the Yahi traces history real and imagined

2008 Bay Area Playwrights Festival
Celebration of the scripts

Sacramento Bee

Theater Review: A razor-sharp 'Sweeney Todd'
Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" is unlike anything you've seen at the Music Circus. But then, "Sweeney Todd" is unlike any other creation in American musical theater....

Seattle Weekly

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Open Circle Theater opened its version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland this past weekend in Volunteer Park, and if you thought Alice was...

PICK: Leni
Imagine a play so well conceived, staged, and performed, you'd ask to see it again as soon as the curtain call ends. Now consider a historical...

Nocturne
C.T. Doescher flails against a powerful undertow in Adam Rapp's Nocturne. No sooner do the lights come up than the narrator of this monologue...

The Stranger

The Arc of Life, the Kiss of Death
A Midwest-Gothic Legend and a Beautiful Mess by Implied Violence

Theater News
Rich White People

An Actor Prevails
Craig Doescher vs. an Excessive Script by Adam Rapp