Chess at DC's Signature

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Chess     The Signature's stellar production might just turn this into a hit at last. . .

Fringe Finale

2010 New York International Fringe Festival-The final post with winners and schedule of post-fringe events. . .

Berkshire Summer Retrospective

Berkshire Summer '10 Retrospective- some things old made new again; some things new with promising futures . . .

Misummer Night's Dream-Philadelphia

A Midsummer Night's Dream -Mauckingbird Theatre Company is doing Shakespeare's great comedy, through a queer lens, butgay or straight, you'll love this production. . . .

All American Girls review

All American Girls-play about an  All American Girls Black Negro League with a mystery twist . . .

Sunday Fringe Update

2010 New York International Fringe Festival-Updated daily. Covered so far:

AK-47 Sing-Along | Alternative Methods | As You Like It | American Gypsy | Banshee of Bainbridge | Baristas | Classically Trained, Practically Broke | Driving the Saudis | Eternity in an Hour | Faster Than The Speed Of White | Faye Lane's Beauty Shop Stories | For the Birds | The Fourth Estate | Friends of Dorothy: An Oz Cabaret | Getting Even With Shakespeare | Hamlet Shut Up | Hamlettes | Headscarf and The Angry Bitch | The Hyperbolist | In the Schoolyard | Invader? I Hardly Know Her | Just in Time: The Judy Holliday Story | Julius Caesar: The Death of a Dictator | Jurassic Parq: The Broadway Musical | Lemonade: A Play of World Domination | Lenny's Dead | Living on the Edge | Lost and Found | Love in the Time of Swine Flu | The Mad 7 | The Maid of Orleans | Menny and Mila | Missionary Position | The Morning After / The Night Before | A Personal War-Stories of the Mumbai Terror Attacks | No One Finer Than Frank Shiner | Picking Palin | The Pig, the Farmer, and the Artist | Pigeons, Knishes and Rockettes | Platinum | Richard 3 | Rites of Privacy | Running | Saving Throw Versus Love | Scared Skinny | Shaheed: The Dream and Death of Benazir Bhutto | Shine: A Burlesque Musical | South Beach Rapture | Spellbound | Strange Love in Outer Space | Swaha: Rituals of Union | The Swearing Jar | Tristan and Isolde | Two Sizes Too Small | Veritas | Viva La Evolucion! | When Last We Flew

Saturday Fringe Updates

2010 New York International Fringe Festival-Updated daily. Covered so far: AK-47 Sing-Along | Alternative Methods | Banshee of Bainbridge | Baristas | Classically Trained, Practically Broke | Driving the Saudis | Eternity in an Hour | Faye Lane's Beauty Shop Stories | For the Birds | The Fourth Estate | Friends of Dorothy: An Oz Cabaret | Getting Even With Shakespeare | Hamlet Shut Up | Hamlettes | Headscarf and The Angry Bitch | The Hyperbolist | In the Schoolyard | Invader? I Hardly Know Her | Just in Time: The Judy Holliday Story | Julius Caesar: The Death of a Dictator | Jurassic Parq: The Broadway Musical | Lemonade: A Play of World Domination | Lenny's Dead | Living on the Edge | Lost and Found | Love in the Time of Swine Flu | The Mad 7 | The Maid of Orleans | Menny and Mila | The Morning After / The Night Before | A Personal War-Stories of the Mumbai Terror Attacks | No One Finer Than Frank Shiner | Picking Palin | The Pig, the Farmer, and the Artist | Pigeons, Knishes and Rockettes | Platinum | Richard 3 | Rites of Privacy | Running | Saving Throw Versus Love | Scared Skinny | Shaheed: The Dream and Death of Benazir Bhutto | Shine: A Burlesque Musical | South Beach Rapture | Spellbound | Strange Love in Outer Space | Swaha: Rituals of Union | The Swearing Jar | Tristan and Isolde | Two Sizes Too Small | Viva La Evolucion!

Annotated Broadway/Off-Broadway Listings

Updated Listings
Broadway
Off-Broadway

Wither's Tale in Los Angeles

A Wither's Tale- The Troubadour Theater troupe spoofs the Bard but his words do make it on stage. . .

Friday Fringe Update

2010 New York International Fringe Festival-Updated daily. Covered so far: daily. Covered so far:
 Sing-Along | Alternative Methods | Banshee of Bainbridge | Classically Trained, Practically Broke | Driving the Saudis | Eternity in an Hour | Faye Lane's Beauty Shop Stories | For the Birds | The Fourth Estate | Friends of Dorothy: An Oz Cabaret | Getting Even With Shakespeare | Hamlet Shut Up | Hamlettes | Headscarf and The Angry Bitch | The Hyperbolist | In the Schoolyard | Invader? I Hardly Know Her | Just in Time: The Judy Holliday Story | Julius Caesar: The Death of a Dictator | Jurassic Parq: The Broadway Musical | Lemonade: A Play of World Domination | Lenny's Dead | Living on the Edge | Lost and Found | Love in the Time of Swine Flu | The Maid of Orleans | Menny and Mila | The Morning After / The Night Before | A Personal War-Stories of the Mumbai Terror Attacks | No One Finer Than Frank Shiner | Picking Palin | The Pig, the Farmer, and the Artist | Pigeons, Knishes and Rockettes | Platinum | Richard 3 | Rites of Privacy | Running | Saving Throw Versus Love | Scared Skinny | South Beach Rapture | Strange Love in Outer Space | Swaha: Rituals of Union | The Swearing Jar | Tristan and Isolde | Two Sizes Too Small | Viva La Evolucion! trange Love in Outer Space | Swaha: Rituals of Union | The Swearing Jar | Tristan and Isolde | Two Sizes Too Small | Viva La Evolucion!

Thursday's Fringe Addition. . .

2010 New York International Fringe Festival-Updated daily. Covered so far: AK-47 Sing-Along | Alternative Methods | Banshee of Bainbridge | Classically Trained, Practically Broke | Driving the Saudis | Eternity in an Hour | Faye Lane's Beauty Shop Stories | For the Birds | The Fourth Estate | Friends of Dorothy: An Oz Cabaret | Getting Even With Shakespeare | Hamlet Shut Up | Hamlettes | Headscarf and The Angry Bitch | The Hyperbolist | In the Schoolyard | Invader? I Hardly Know Her | Just in Time: The Judy Holliday Story | Julius Caesar: The Death of a Dictator | Jurassic Parq: The Broadway Musical | Lemonade: A Play of World Domination | Lenny's Dead | Living on the Edge | Lost and Found | Love in the Time of Swine Flu | The Maid of Orleans | Menny and Mila | The Morning After / The Night Before | A Personal War-Stories of the Mumbai Terror Attacks | No One Finer Than Frank Shiner | Picking Palin | The Pig, the Farmer, and the Artist | Pigeons, Knishes and Rockettes | Platinum | Richard 3 | Rites of Privacy | Running | Saving Throw Versus Love | Scared Skinny | South Beach Rapture | Strange Love in Outer Space | Swaha: Rituals of Union | The Swearing Jar | Tristan and Isolde | Two Sizes Too Small | Viva La Evolucion! trange Love in Outer Space | Swaha: Rituals of Union | The Swearing Jar | Tristan and Isolde | Two Sizes Too Small | Viva La Evolucion!

A Delicate Balance-Berkshire Theatre Festival

A Delicate Balance-Berkshire Theatre Festival ends its Main Stage season with a well worth seeing revival of Edward Albee's under appreciated, first Pulitzer Prize winner. . .

More Fringe Links

2010 New York International Fringe Festival-Updated daily. Covered so far: AK-47 Sing-Along | Alternative Methods | Banshee of Bainbridge | Driving the Saudis | Eternity in an Hour | Faye Lane's Beauty Shop Stories | For the Birds | Friends of Dorothy: An Oz Cabaret | Getting Even With Shakespeare | Hamlet Shut Up | Headscarf and The Angry Bitch | The Hyperbolist | In the Schoolyard | Invader? I Hardly Know Her | Just in Time: The Judy Holliday Story | Julius Caesar: The Death of a Dictator | Jurassic Parq: The Broadway Musical | Lemonade: A Play of World Domination | Lenny's Dead | Living on the Edge | Lost and Found | Love in the Time of Swine Flu | The Maid of Orleans | Menny and Mila | The Morning After / The Night Before | A Personal War-Stories of the Mumbai Terror Attacks | No One Finer Than Frank Shiner | Picking Palin | The Pig, the Farmer, and the Artist | Pigeons, Knishes and Rockettes | Platinum | Richard 3 | Rites of Privacy | Running | Saving Throw Versus Love | Scared Skinny | South Beach Rapture | Strange Love in Outer Space | Swaha: Rituals of Union | The Swearing Jar | Tristan and Isolde | Two Sizes Too Small | Viva La Evolucion!

A Delicate Balance-Berkshire Theatre Festival ends its Main Stage season with a well worth seeing revival of Edward Albee's under appreciated, first Pulitzer Prize winner. . .

CurtainupNewLinks: Three new Additions to Our Fringe Page

CurtainupNewLinks: Three new Additions to Our Fringe Page: "2010 New York International Fringe Festival-Updated daily. Covered so far: AK-47 Sing-Along | Banshee of Bainbridge | Eternity in a..."

Three new Additions to Our Fringe Page

2010 New York International Fringe Festival-Updated daily. Covered so far: AK-47 Sing-Along | Banshee of Bainbridge | Eternity in an Hour | Faye Lane's Beauty Shop Stories | For the Birds | Friends of Dorothy: An Oz Cabaret | Getting Even With Shakespeare | Hamlet Shut Up | Headscarf and The Angry Bitch | Invader? I Hardly Know Her | Just in Time: The Judy Holliday Story | Julius Caesar: The Death of a Dictator | Jurassic Parq: The Broadway Musical | Lemonade: A Play of World Domination | Lenny's Dead | Living on the Edge | Lost and Found | Love in the Time of Swine Flu | The Maid of Orleans | Menny and Mila | The Morning After / The Night Before | A Personal War-Stories of the Mumbai Terror Attacks | No One Finer Than Frank Shiner | Picking Palin | The Pig, the Farmer, and the Artist | Platinum | Richard 3 | Rites of Privacy | Running | Saving Throw Versus Love | Scared Skinny | South Beach Rapture | Strange Love in Outer Space | Swaha: Rituals of Union | Two Sizes Too Small | Viva La Evolucion!

CurtainupNewLinks: New 2-person musical @Barrington Stage

CurtainupNewLinks: New 2-person musical @Barrington Stage: "The Memory Show- World premiere of Barrington Stage-Musical Theater Lab 2-person musical starring Leslie Kritzer and Catherine Cox

New 2-person musical @Barrington Stage

The Memory Show- World premiere of Barrington Stage-Musical Theater Lab 2-person musical starring Leslie Kritzer and Catherine Cox

CurtainupNewLinks: The Mint Theater's new "lost" treasure & another F...

CurtainupNewLinks: The Mint Theater's new "lost" treasure & another F...: "Wife to James Whelan- Here's another thank you to the Mint Theatre's artistic director Jonathan Bank. He's again resurrected, produce..."

The Mint Theater's new "lost" treasure & another Fringe Update

Wife to James Whelan- Here's another thank you to the Mint Theatre's artistic director Jonathan Bank. He's again resurrected, produced and ably directed a regrettably obscure playwright, Teresa Deevy. . .

2010 New York International Fringe Festival-Updated daily. Covered so far: AK-47 Sing-Along | Banshee of Bainbridge | Eternity in an Hour | Faye Lane's Beauty Shop Stories | For the Birds | Friends of Dorothy: An Oz Cabaret | Getting Even With Shakespeare | Hamlet Shut Up | Headscarf and The Angry Bitch | Invader? I Hardly Know Her | Just in Time: The Judy Holliday Story | Julius Caesar: The Death of a Dictator | Jurassic Parq: The Broadway Musical | Lemonade: A Play of World Domination | Lenny's Dead | Living on the Edge | Lost and Found | Love in the Time of Swine Flu | The Maid of Orleans | Menny and Mila | The Morning After / The Night Before | A Personal War-Stories of the Mumbai Terror Attacks | Picking Palin | The Pig, the Farmer, and the Artist | Platinum | Richard 3 | Rites of Privacy | Running | Saving Throw Versus Love | Scared Skinny | South Beach Rapture | Swaha: Rituals of Union | Two Sizes Too Small

CurtainupNewLinks: More from the Fringe

CurtainupNewLinks: More from the Fringe: "2010 New York International Fringe Festival-Updated daily. Covered so far: AK-47 Sing-Along | Banshee of Bainbridge | Eternit..."

Another Day, Another Set of Fringe updates

2010 New York International Fringe Festival-Updated daily. Covered so far: AK-47 Sing-Along | Banshee of Bainbridge | Eternity in an Hour | Faye Lane's Beauty Shop Stories | For the Birds | Friends of Dorothy: An Oz Cabaret Getting Even With Shakespeare | Hamlet Shut Up | Headscarf and The Angry Bitch | Invader? I Hardly Know Her | Just in Time: The Judy Holliday Story | Jurassic Parq: The Broadway Musical | Lemonade: A Play of World Domination | Lenny's Dead | Living on the Edge | Love in the Time of Swine Flu | The Maid of Orleans | Menny and Mila | The Morning After / The Night Before | A Personal War-Stories of the Mumbai Terror Attacks | Picking Palin | The Pig, the Farmer, and the Artist | Platinum | Richard 3 | Rites of Privacy | Running | Saving Throw Versus Love | Scared Skinny | Swaha: Rituals of Union | Two Sizes Too Small

More from the Fringe

2010 New York International Fringe Festival-Updated daily. Covered so far: AK-47 Sing-Along | Banshee of Bainbridge | Eternity in an Hour | Faye Lane's Beauty Shop Stories | Friends of Dorothy: An Oz Cabaret Getting Even With Shakespeare | Hamlet Shut Up | Headscarf and The Angry Bitch | Invader? I Hardly Know Her | Just in Time: The Judy Holliday Story | Lenny's Dead | Living on the Edge | Love in the Time of Swine Flu | The Maid of Orleans | Menny and Mila | The Morning After / The Night Before | A Personal War-Stories of the Mumbai Terror Attacks | Picking Palin | Platinum | Richard 3 | Rites of Privacy | Running | Saving Throw Versus Love | Scared Skinny | Swaha: Rituals of Union | Two Sizes Too Small ion | Two Sizes Too Small

Fringe Coverage so far. . .

2010 New York International Fringe Festival-Updated daily. Covered so far: AK-47 Sing-Along | Banshee of Bainbridge | Faye Lane's Beauty Shop Stories | Friends of Dorothy: An Oz Cabaret Getting Even With Shakespeare | Hamlet Shut Up | Headscarf and The Angry Bitch | Just in Time: The Judy Holliday Story | Lenny's Dead | Living on the Edge | Love in the Time of Swine Flu | The Maid of Orleans | Menny and Mila | The Morning After / The Night Before | Picking Palin | Richard 3 | Rites of Privacy | Saving Throw Versus Love | Scared Skinny | Swaha: Rituals of Union | Two Sizes Too Small

August 19 review Summer at Curtainup/Berkshires

Summer- Thanks to Catherine Taylor-Williams, a long-time artist-manager with Shakespeare & Company, Berkshire theater goers once again have a chance to see some of the adaptions of Edith Wharton's stories and novels-- like the currently playing Summer in the Stables Auditorium of Wharton's Lenox estate, now a historic landmark. . . -

LatestCurtainup.com Review/Feature Links

No Man's Land 

at curtainup.com
http://www.curtainup.com/nomanslandnj.html
Pinter's play gets a splendid prodction at the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey

Earthquakes in London
at curtainup.com
http://www.curtainup.com/earthquakeslon.html
Mike Bartlett's freewheeling epic play dealing with climate change

http://www.curtainup.com/shakespeare2010.html#Dates  Elyse Sommer

Bad Dates - Theresa Rebeck's  popular solo  play a hit for Shakespeare & Companys Elizabeth Aspenlieder

Gender Benders  Are Big Winners  in Two Prime Berkshire  Venues
at curtainup.com
http://www.curtainup.com/genderbendersfeature.html

http://www.curtainup.com/wtf10.html#Fifth      Elyse Sommer on 5th of July

Williamstown concludes its Main Stage Season with excellent production of  the first in Lanford Wilson's Talley trilogy

The Punishing Blow
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http://www.curtainup.com/punishingblow.html

A  professor's punishment  for an   anti-Semitic remark  is to deliver a lecture  on a historically prominent Jew is not  a punishment at all  for  the audience prescribed by the playwright Randy Cohen as the lecturer's audience.

LaBoheme--new English version at London's intimate SoHo Theater
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