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• Theater Review (NYC): The Country Girl

  No one could be sadder than I. Morgan Freeman, Frances McDormand, Peter Gallagher: what could possibly go wrong? A lot.

  Review by Tulis McCall — on Apr 28, 2008

• Opera Review: The Barber of Seville (Bern, Switzerland)

  A modern take on Il Barbiere di Siviglia complete with trashcans.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Apr 28, 2008

• Theater Review (Milan, Italy): La Divina Comedia by Marco Frisina, Gianmario Pagano, and Dante at Pala Sharp

  Life can be Hell according to Dante. Now let's sing about it.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Apr 24, 2008

• Theater Review (New York): Chamber Music and The Day The Whores Came Out To Play Tennis

  There are pauses in these two plays during which you could unload a banana boat.

  Review by Tulis McCall — on Apr 21, 2008

• Theatre Review (NYC): “Foul is Fair” - Patrick Stewart and Kate Fleetwood Uncover the Power of Shakespeare’s Dark, Psychological Tale of Macbeth

  Director Rupert Goold’s filmic version of Macbeth is novel but distracting.

  Review by Cynthia Greenwood — on Apr 17, 2008

• Theater Review (New York): The Little Flower of East Orange

  LAByrinth Theater Company is not neat and tidy-making. It bubbles and evolves with every production.

  Review by Tulis McCall — on Apr 16, 2008

• Stars Honor Bill Withers and Our Time, an Artistic Home for People Who Stutter

  Our Time Theatre Company provides an artistic home for kids and teens who stutter.

  News by Jon Sobel — on Apr 15, 2008

• Theater Review (NYC): Another Vermeer

  It is in spaces like the Abingdon that New York theater is truly born.

  Review by Tulis McCall — on Apr 14, 2008

• Theater Review (NYC): Sizwe Banzi is Dead

  This play speaks only of one town in one country, but it transcends time, race, sex, and class.

  Review by Tulis McCall — on Apr 11, 2008

• Theater Review (NYC): Arthur Kopit's Chamber Music and The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis

  Susan B. Anthony, Joan of Arc, and Amelia Earhart fear an attack from the men's ward.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Apr 11, 2008

• Theater Review (London): I Saw Myself

  Sleev is super-intelligent, manipulative, and magnificent. With a different set of genitals she'd have made a superb king.

  Review by Natalie Bennett — on Apr 10, 2008

• Theater Review (NYC): Dirt

  An Iraqi immigrant who knows he cannot be loved invites hatred and abuse instead, because at least it's something.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Apr 10, 2008

• Theatre Review (NYC): Something You Did

  This is a quiet little play about big ideas, a fine and thoughtful feast for mind and spirit.

  Review by Tulis McCall — on Apr 08, 2008

• Theater Review (NYC): Elizabeth Rex by Timothy Findley

  All's well that ends well - except for poor Essex, of course.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Apr 07, 2008

• Theatre Review (NYC): Macbeth

  In all the times you have seen Macbeth, did you ever get the impression that Mr. and Mrs. Macbeth were actually married?

  Review by Tulis McCall — on Apr 07, 2008

• Theatre Review (NYC): The Drunken City

  This play doesn’t quite land on its feet, but it has wonderful moments of surprise with excellent performances.

  Review by Tulis McCall — on Apr 07, 2008

• Theater Review (NYC): The Four of Us

  This is a sweet play. That sounds gushy, but there is not another way to describe it.

  Review by Tulis McCall — on Apr 06, 2008

• Theater Review (NYC): Hostage Song

  Two war hostages are wrenched into a space so unreal that erupting into song seems as sensible as anything else.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Apr 05, 2008

• Theatre Review (Norman, OK): Lend Me a Tenor

  Just be glad your life is not this complicated.

  Review by Amanda Bittle — on Apr 04, 2008

• Theater Review (NYC): Rainbow Kiss

  Like its plot and character development, the Rainbow Kiss is MIA.

  Review by Tulis McCall — on Apr 01, 2008