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Coward's Social Scene, Writer's Secret Converge in Berkshires: John Simon The Berkshire Theatre Festival of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, is nestled amid green hills in a delightful valley. The repertoire, too, has its high points and troughs, the former represented by what is billed as ``Noel Coward in Two Keys.''

Variety

Broadway sales slow down
Late-August slowdown causes ticket tumble

The Bones of Lesser Men
Yet, despite a few opening weekend flubs, a committed 10-member ensemble manages to instill a zesty vitality and humor into the proceedings.

Review: Educating Rita
The Colony Theater revival plays like dueling tubas in an oom-pah band.

Review: 365 in Edinburgh
Would the company that brought us "Black Watch," still on a world tour after two years, prove a winning combination with the Scottish playwright whose international hit, "Blackbird," is newly slated to transfer to the bigscreen? That "365" does not scale the heights of those earlier plays is hardly surprising; that it struggles to get off the ground, however, is a disappointment.

Review: Dorian Gray in Edinburgh
...Matthew Bourne's choreographed adaptation of the famous gothic story seems even more appropriate to our self-regarding society than to the dandyish days of 1891. Premiering in the Edinburgh Intl. Festival before a major U.K. tour, "Dorian Gray" is a slick, chic crowd-pleaser -- as skin-deep as the culture it satirizes

Back Stage

Noon Day Sun reviewed by Ronni Reich
Noon Day Sun promises impact. Zena, a black woman with skin so fair she is called "snow," passes herself off in 1957 as a white woman named Wendy.

Camp Summer Camp reviewed by Paul Menard
Did your parents ever con you into going to summer camp with the promise that once you got there, you'd have a great time?

Liz McCartney: Rosemary and Time reviewed by David Finkle
Through almost all of Liz McCartney's rendition of the Jerry Ross-Richard Adler "Hey There" — which Rosemary Clooney turned into one of her many chart-topping hits — I had my eyes closed.

Coaching Actors for the Long Term
Since 1996, Stoneburner and The Company Acting Studio have been teaching and coaching — and inspiring — children and adults to act in theatre, film, and television with a remarkable rate of success.

Deep Thinker
In the short film I Think I Thought, actor-writer-director-producer Matthew Modine portrays Joe, a seemingly average guy who harbors a troubling addiction.

Book Review: The Best Women's Stage Monologues 2007
This anthology is a solid and varied cross-section of selections from some of the more popular playwrights working today as well as dramatists just getting started.