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Chicago Tribune

On the Fringe: The trouble with 'Metaluna' is your own and your donkey's

Review: 'Phantom' talent carries the show in Munster, Ind.

Chicago Sun-Times

Fall theater seasons announced

Time Out Chicago

Ed Sobel
The literary guru helps hold down Steppenwolf’s fort.

Review: Ruby Wilder @ Not Waiting Productions
Review: Metaluna and the Amazing Science of the Mind Revue @ WNEP Theater
Review: Multi-Purpose Doom @ Sandbox Theatre Project
Review: Cyrano Translated @ Ouroborus Theatre

Spotlight on...
Deborah Clapp
The new leader of the League of Chicago Theatres talks shop.

Daily Herald

'Caveman' coming to Noble Fool

Minneapolis City Pages

Brave New Workshop: Sharp as ever after 50 years
It's easy for me to be entranced by the general atmosphere of youthful athleticism at Circus Juventas in St. Paul, with bodies flying this way...

Theater Spotlight: A Murder Is Announced
Reaching back to stage Leslie Darbon's 1977 adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1950 murder mystery would seemingly require one of two factors to...

Detroit Free Press

'Love Letters' answered
When Sigourney Weaver asked Jeff Daniels whether he would perform at a benefit last year for her New York City theater company, Daniels said sure, but only if she would return the favor.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Plenty on tap
Tap dancing isn't just for old people, as a popular, annual festival here this weekend will show. The art is enjoying a resurgence among the young and hip on stage and screen.

St. Louis Riverfront Times

Pilot Error: The Muny's Miss Saigon brings the helicopter — but little else
The crowd chatter prior to the opening chord of Miss Saigon touched on only two topics: the heat and a helicopter. At the end of the first act,...

Zero Summer: Lewis Stadlen bookends the Muny season by taking on his idol's role in Fiddler
Back in 1967, Lewis J. Stadlen's first professional acting job was in the national company of Fiddler on the Roof. "I played Mendel, the Rabbi's...

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Cleveland Plain Dealer

Check out what the clever folks at IngenuityFest are doing this year There's no other word to describe it. IngenuityFest, is, well, pretty in genious. Now in its fourth year, the annual arts-and-technology extrav aganza runs Friday through Sunday in downtown's PlayhouseSquare area. Given the more than 100 events

Houston Chronicle

Broadway play August is dysfunction at its best
If you follow theater at all, you've heard about Tracy Letts' August: Osage County by now. And you may have wondered: "Can August possibly be that good?" No. It's better

Houston Press

The Unexpected Guest Will Keep You Guessing Until the Very End
Murder, an illicit love affair and a blackmailing nurse add up to an unusually exciting Summer Chills production from the Alley Theatre this...

Capsule Stage Reviews: Oklahoma!, Smoke on the Mountain: Homecoming, Snoopy, Yeomen of the Guard

Denver Post

"When Pigs Fly" soars on silliness