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• Theater Review (NYC): The Importance of Being Earnest at The Counting Squares Theatre - A Beguiling Wilde

  Born in a handbag in Grand Central Station.

  Review by Kate Shea Kennon — on Nov 17, 2009

• Theater Review (Queens, NY): Cyrano de Bergerac

  Daniel Wolfe delivers a tour-de-force performance as the swashbuckling poet in Rostand's masterwork.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Nov 16, 2009

• Theater Review (Queens, NY): Cyrano de Bergerac

  There's little to recommend in The Queens Players' latest production, a disappointingly sluggish revival of Cyrano de Bergerac.

  Review by Hannah Marie Ellison — on Nov 14, 2009

• Theater Review (NYC): Wolves at the Window by Toby Davies (after Saki)

  A malevolent core hums at the center of everything in Saki's ironic, sometimes eerie tales, cleverly adapted here for the stage.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Nov 13, 2009

• Theater Review (Queens, NY): Much Ado About Nothing

  William Shakespeare's comedy classic staged as a reality television show – and it works!

  Review by Kikstad — on Nov 09, 2009

• From the Green Room: Marley and Me

  A Christmas Carol returns and Marley haunts again – played by me, again.

  Opinion by Jack Goodstein — on Nov 09, 2009

• Theater Review (NYC): The Lesser Seductions of History

  The 1960s, A to Z, in one night.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Nov 09, 2009

• Theatre Review (Queens, NY): The Pillowman at the Astoria Performing Arts Center

  It isn't a crime to write a story.

  Review by Kate Shea Kennon — on Nov 09, 2009

• Theater Review (Queens, NY): Much Ado About Nothing

  Reality television invades the world of Shakespeare in Queens Shakespeare's take on the comedy.

  Review by Hannah Marie Ellison — on Nov 07, 2009

• Theatre Review (Ventura, CA): Daddy Long Legs at the Rubicon Theatre

  A new musical by John Caird and Paul Gordon, based on the classic tale, gets a respectable production but has plot and music problems.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Nov 05, 2009

• Theater Review (East Haddam, CT): A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

  Goodspeed Musicals presents an evening of theater diverting enough to make you forget about the real world.

  Review by CindyC — on Nov 05, 2009

• Theatre Review (NYC): Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at the Gloria Maddox

  Bring out your dead, Hamlet.

  Review by Kate Shea Kennon — on Nov 04, 2009

• Theatre Review (LA): Purgatorio, Inspired by Dante, by Romeo Castellucci at the Freud Playhouse

  A provocative production based on the "Purgatory" section of the Divine Comedy at the UCLA International Theatre Festival.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Nov 03, 2009

• All-Star Cast of David Mamet's New Play Race: Dishing the Broadway Dirt

  Richard Thomas plays "a man in a suit who's in a lot of trouble" in David Mamet's upcoming premiere.

  Interview by Jon Sobel — on Nov 03, 2009

• Theater Review (NYC): Creature by Heidi Schreck

  Haunted House or Tunnel of Love? The creatures lurking within can be one and the same.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Oct 31, 2009

• From the Green Room: Acting the Sub-text

  Perfecting an actor's role through unheard dialogue and unrevealed back story.

  Opinion by Jack Goodstein — on Oct 31, 2009

• Theater Review (Bridgeport, CT): The Return of The Rocky Horror Show

  Bridgeport does the Time Warp again!

  Review by CindyC — on Oct 30, 2009

• Music Review (Los Angeles): "Disney Symphonic Legacy" with John Mauceri at Disney Hall

  John Mauceri has a triumphant return To Los Angeles but this time at Disney Hall playing only Disney Music

  Review by Robert Machray — on Oct 30, 2009

• Theater Review (Waterbury, CT): Avenue Q

  Maybe I'm just too old for this.

  Review by CindyC — on Oct 29, 2009

• Performance Review (LA): Kooza by Cirque Du Soleil at Santa Monica Pier

  Kooza dazzles with its simplicity.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Oct 28, 2009