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• Theatre Review (LA): The Color Purple with Fantasia at the Pantages Theatre

  You won't forget her once you see Fantasia, the American Idol winner, in this national tour.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Feb 15, 2010

• Theatre Review (LA): Petrushka by Stravinsky and Basil Twist at the Broad Stage

  This adaptation of Stravinsky's ballet by master puppeteer Basil Twist made for a short but inspiring evening.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Feb 15, 2010

• Theater Review (NYC): Never In My Lifetime at the Access Theatre

  Northern Ireland in the 1970s: On the road to nowhere.

  Review by Kate Shea Kennon — on Feb 14, 2010

• Theater Review (NYC): Charles L. Mee's Fêtes de la Nuit

  Almost magically, these characters whom we only glimpse come brightly alive, exuding sorrow, angst, joy in turn.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Feb 13, 2010

• Theatre Review (LA): Hellz Kitchen Ablaze by Tommy Carter at the Elephant Stageworks

  Crooked detectives want to share in the spoils from a drug bust. The play is taut, tense, full of paranoia and racism.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Feb 13, 2010

• Theatre Review (LA): The Browning Version by Terence Rattigan at the Pacific Resident Theatre

  This nearly perfect play is given a smashing production at Pacific Resident Theatre starring Bruce French and directed by Marilyn Fox.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Feb 09, 2010

• Theater Review (Tampa, FL): Wicked

  Experience the Wonderful World of Oz as you have never seen it before.

  Review by Bruce G. Smith — on Feb 08, 2010

• Theater Review (NYC): Clybourne Park

  1959: a black family is moving into a white neighborhood. 2009: after hard times, the same neighborhood is re-gentrifying.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Feb 07, 2010

• Theater Review (NYC): The Mike and Morgan Show at the Access Theatre: What Wouldn't I Do For You?

  Regret being the major theme of the evening, a character reminds the audience that "in the heat of the summer, it is hard to ever imagine being cold."

  Review by Kate Shea Kennon — on Jan 31, 2010

• Dance Review (LA): Cinderella by Prokofiev and Ashton at the Chandler Pavilion

  The Joffrey Ballet has a triumphant return to Los Angeles.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Jan 29, 2010

• Theatre Review (LA): bobrauschenbergamerica by Charles Mee at Inside the Ford

  An experimental play about art, love, and America as seen through the eyes of the American artist Robert Rauschenberg.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Jan 25, 2010

• Theatre Review (LA): Project Wonderland by Robert Prior at the Bootleg Theatre

  A retelling of Lewis Carroll's classic features Alice as a man in drag, puppets, and many of LA's more adventurous artists.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Jan 23, 2010

• Theater Review (LA): The Pee-wee Herman Show

  Pee-wee Herman returns to the stage with a fun (AAHH!!) show for all ages.

  Review by El Bicho — on Jan 21, 2010

• Theater Review (Boston): [title of show]

  Two gifted musical comedy performers anchor the solid New England premiere of the most self-referential show around.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Jan 21, 2010

• Theater Review (Waterbury, CT): Cirque Dreams Illumination

  In this dazzling spectacle, even simple dance moves and acrobatics become works of art.

  Review by CindyC — on Jan 19, 2010

• Theatre Review (LA): A Song at Twilight by Noel Coward at the Odyssey Theatre

  Orson Bean plays an aging but successful writer who has lived his life in the closet.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Jan 19, 2010

• Theater Review (Boston): The Good Negro by Tracey Scott Wilson

  This well-acted, well-directed production deserves attention beyond the Martin Luther King Day celebration.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Jan 17, 2010

• Theatre Review (LA): Camelot by Lerner and Lowe at the Pasadena Playhouse

  This Camelot has been "revised" and cut down, but not for the better.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Jan 17, 2010

• Theatre Review (LA): Ordinary Days by Adam Gwon at South Coast Repertory

  Thirtyish angst about living in New York has little relevance to the lives of theatregoers in Southern California.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Jan 15, 2010

• Theatre/Dance Review (LA): Riverdance at the Pantages Theatre

  Riverdance makes a triumphant return to Los Angeles.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Jan 14, 2010