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• Theater Review (NYC): Almost An Evening by Ethan Coen, with F. Murray Abraham and Mark Linn-Baker

  F. Murray Abraham as a hilarious, thundering Jehovah in Ethan Coen's first Off-Broadway play.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Mar 30, 2008

• Theatre Review (LA): Mask by Mann, Weil, and Phelan

  Allen E. Read's voice is enough reason to see this version of the inspiring story of a disfigured teenager, with songs by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Mar 27, 2008

• Theater Review (NYC): Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?

  Churchill's writing drops like a sinker on the end of a fishing line. She is direct and determined.

  Review by Tulis McCall — on Mar 26, 2008

• Theater Review (NYC): Dead Man's Cell Phone

  Nothing gets in the way of the glow from Sarah Ruhl's squirrelly little mind. The plot is all in the title.

  Review by Tulis McCall — on Mar 26, 2008

• Theatre Review (LA): The Violet Hour by Richard Greenberg at Theatre Tribe

  A mysterious printing press predicts the future, but to no avail.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Mar 24, 2008

• Theatre Review (LA): Secrets of the Trade by Jonathan Tolins at the Black Dahlia Theatre

  Mentorship, gays, parents, and John Glover in a powerful and funny play.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Mar 24, 2008

• Theatre Review (LA): The Dying Gaul by Craig Lucas at The Elephant Theatre

  A famous statue of a dying Gaul inspires a play about grief, Hollywood, infidelity, and murderous impulses.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Mar 23, 2008

• Theater Review (London): Days of Significance by the RSC at the Tricycle

  The subject is Iraq, and the "heroes" are the achingly young, ill-educated lads who wind up in the British army ranks.

  Review by Natalie Bennett — on Mar 20, 2008

• Theatre Review (San Diego): The American Plan by Richard Greenberg

  First-rate performances enliven this production of Richard Greenberg's twist on Henry James's tale of a Catskills heiress.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Mar 19, 2008

• Theatre Review (San Diego): Dancing in the Dark by Dietz, Schwartz, and Beane at The Old Globe

  Scott Bakula climbs on the bandwagon but dances in the dark.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Mar 17, 2008

• Theater Review (NYC): A (Tooth) Fairy Tale

  It takes a special council of the heavies of faerydom to figure out how to set things right.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Mar 17, 2008

• Theatre Review (LA): The Dead by Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey at The Open Fist

  A terrific revival of the musical based on James Joyce's story.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Mar 17, 2008

• Theatre Review (LA): Victory by Athol Fugard at the Fountain Theatre

  Trouble in the new South Africa.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Mar 16, 2008

• Theater Review (NYC): TBA by Carla Ching

  A gifted writer locks himself in his apartment and creates worlds from within.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Mar 16, 2008

• Theatre Review (LA): Thrill Me: The Story of Leopold and Loeb by Stephen Dolgiff

  Leopold and Loeb sing for their supper.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Mar 16, 2008

• Theater Review (Milwaukee): The Night Is A Child at the Quadracci Powerhouse Theater

  Sadness never leaves. Happiness does.

  Review by Lou Novacheck — on Mar 15, 2008

• Theatre Review (Houston): The Alley Theatre Performs Othello

  Sheer physicality and a maritime motif heighten James Black's portrayal of Shakespeare's greatest villain, Iago.

  Review by Cynthia Greenwood — on Mar 14, 2008

• Theatre Review (LA): All Shook Up with the Music of Elvis Presley

  Elvis is all shook up in Los Angeles.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Mar 12, 2008

• Opera Review (LA): The Broken Jug by Ullmann and The Dwarf by Zemlinsky at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

  A splendid new production of two forgotten masterworks from the Holocaust at the LA Opera.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Mar 11, 2008

• Theatre Review (LA): Henry IV Part One by William Shakespeare at A Noise Within

  Shakespeare's Fatman and Robin - er, Hal.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Mar 10, 2008