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• Theater Review (LA): American Tales by Jan Powell and Ken Stone for The Antaeus Theatre Company at Deaf West Theatre

  Mark Twain and Herman Melville, set to music, make for a thoroughly enjoyable evening.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Jul 18, 2008

• Theater Review (LA): Desert Sunrise by Misha Shulman at the Lillian Theatre

  West Bank combatants meet in a moving, tragic-comic play written by an Israeli Army veteran.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Jul 17, 2008

• Theater Review (LA) : The Voice Of The Prairie by John Olive at the Colony Theatre

  A tale of the early days of radio, broadcast from the American Prairie.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Jul 16, 2008

• Theater Review (NYC): The Strangerer by Mickie Maher

  A fine existential play comes to New York, and will either baffle its audience to catharsis or bore it to sleep.

  Review by Ethan Stanislawski — on Jul 16, 2008

• Theater Review (LA): The Wizard of Oz at The Carpenter Center

  Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Jul 15, 2008

• Theater Review (NYC): Bouffon Glass Menajoree

  This parody of the Tennessee Williams classic is grotesque in the original and best sense of the word.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Jul 13, 2008

• Theater Review (LA): Looped by Mathew Lombardo at the Pasadena Playhouse

  Valerie Harper triumphs as Tallulah Bankhead.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Jul 13, 2008

• Theater Review (Milan): Imperium by La Fura Dels Baus at Pals Sharp

  Imperialism, subjugation, and bare-breasted women - I can only imagine how it played in Beijing.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Jul 11, 2008

• Theater Review (NYC): Life in A Marital Institution by James Braly

  James Braly's nakedly honest one-man show covers more than one side of married life.

  Review by Ethan Stanislawski — on Jul 11, 2008

• Connecting New York and Chicago: A Four-Year Theatrical Odyssey

  Going from New York to Chicago and back, you could see the Chicago invasion coming a mile away.

  Opinion by Ethan Stanislawski — on Jul 09, 2008

• Theater Review (LA): In On It by Daniel Maclvor at The Chandler Studio Theatre Center

  Three plots for the price of one, by a GLAAD and Obie Award winning playwright.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Jul 07, 2008

• Opera Review (Verona): Nabucco by Verdi at Arena di Verona

  The most beautiful-sounding chorus in opera is the real star of this fine production.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Jun 30, 2008

• Theatre Review (NYC): Edward Albee's Occupant

  This fabulous production has been extended so there is still time to see it.

  Review by Tulis McCall — on Jun 27, 2008

• Opera Review (Verona): Tosca by Puccini at Arena Di Verona

  Tosca reaches new heights in Verona.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Jun 24, 2008

• Opera Review (Verona): Aida by Verdi at Arena Di Verona

  Egypt comes to Verona again, in a sumptuous updated version of a legendary 1913 production.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Jun 23, 2008

• Opera Review (Milan): La Traviata by Verdi at Teatro Alla Scala

  Mariella La Devia sings Violetta at La Scala, but Renato Bruson is the biggest crowd-pleaser as Germont.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Jun 20, 2008

• Theater Review (NYC): The Pleasures of Peace by the Medicine Show Theater Ensemble

  Fighting complacency, one wisecrack at a time.

  Review by Ethan Stanislawski — on Jun 20, 2008

• Dance Review (Milan): Diavolo Dance Theatre at Teatro Arcimboli

  Diavolo shows Milan a bit of the ether.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Jun 20, 2008

• Theater/Burlesque Review (NYC): Revealed

  Bawdy fun in the East Village.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Jun 19, 2008

• Theater Review (NYC): Vendetta Chrome

  You have less than a week to hustle on over to this fine show.

  Review by Tulis McCall — on Jun 17, 2008