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Our Theater Reviews
MAY 2011
The Chicago One Minute Play Festival (not rated)
The First (and Last) Musical on Mars ★½
Three Days of Rain ★★★½
A Lesson Before Dying ★★★
Porgy and Bess ★★★★
Dot & Ziggy ★★★
The Outgoing Tide ★★★
Big Love ★★½
The Gospel According to James ★★★½
Fifty Words ★★★
Murder for Two - A Killer Musical ★★★
Hubbard Street Summer Series ★★★
War and Peace: A Dance Theater Short ★★★½
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater ★★★★
500 Clowns Trapped ★★★
Elephant Man ★½
Iphigeneia at Aulis ★★★
Sex with Straight Men ★★
Aces ★★½
Down & Dirty Romeo & Juliet ★★★
Something's Afoot ★½
Hickorydickory ★★★
Ismene ★½
No More Dead Dogs ★★★
Watership Down ★★★
Slaughter City ★★★
The Last Saint on Sugar Hill ★★★★
Freedom, NY ★★★
Stage Kiss ★★½
Nunset Boulevard ★★
Tragedy: a tragedy ★★★
The Maid of Orleans ★★
Life Is a Dream ★★★
Adrift in Macao ★★
Helen ★★★½
Cubicle! An Office Space Musical ★★
Cold Cold Feet ★★★
Rising Stars ★★★★
Festen ★★★★
HE/SHE ★★★
Roadkill Confidential ★½
The Original Grease ★★★½
Peter Pan ★★★★
Spring Awakening ★★★
APRIL 2011
Electra and Orestes ★
Heartbreak House ★★★
Steel Magnolias ★★★
Ribbon Around a Bomb ★★
The Rainmaker ★★½
Oprah! A Comedy! Live Your Best Laugh ★★★½
Erratica ★★★
Performing Tonight: Liza Minnelli's Daughter ★★½
A Little Night Music ★★★
The King and I ★★★
Rantoul and Die ★★★½
Soul Samurai ★★½
Next to Normal ★★★★
Orpheus: Featuring DJ Puzzle as Fate ★★½
Eurydice ★★½
Cirque Eloize iD ★★½
Passing Strange ★★★★
Pony ★★½
Woyzeck ★★★½
Maybe in a Moment ★★★
42nd Street ★★★½
Bury the Dead ★½
Medea ★★★★
The Conquest of the South Pole ★★★
South Side of Heaven ★★★★
The Front Page ★★★
Arms and the Man ★★★
The Madness of George III ★★★★
The Copperhead ★★★
Twinkie and the Beast ★★★
The Alchemist ★★★
White Noise ★★★
There Is a Happiness that Morning Is ★★★
One Flea Spare ★★★
The Metal Children ★★★½
Tree ★★★½
The Well of Horniness ★★½
I Am Montana ★★½
The Voodoo Chalk Circle ★★★
Verse Chorus Verse ★★★
The Mandrake ★★
Solo Works ★★★
The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia? ★★★
Dirty Blonde ★★
The Hot L Baltimore ★★½
From Generation to Generation ★½
El Nogalar ★★★½
Always, Patsy Cline ★★½
Death and the Powers: The Robots' Opera ★★★
MARCH 2011
Brutal Imagination ★★★
Wreckage ★★½
Birthright ★★½
Dixie's Tupperware Party ★★★
The Butler Didn't! ★★½
The Buzz that Is the Buzz ★★★½
Unbroken ★★★
Sense and Sensibility ★★★½
Soul One ★½
Romeo & Juliet ★★
6th Annual Chaos Festival ★★★
Black Watch ★★★★
Man from Nebraska ★★★
Star Witness ★★½
Ephemera ★★★
The Warriors ★★½
All in Love Is Fair ★★★
Made in Puerto Rico ★★★
Aida ★★★
The Literati ★★½
Sinbad: The Untold Story ★★½
Arnie the Donut ★★★½
Woyzeck ★★★½
Virginia Woolf's Orlando ★★½
MilkMilkLemonade ★★★½
The Grisly/Glorious Adventure... ★★
The Caucasian Chalk Circle ★★★★
Terre Haute ★★★
Changes ★★★
The Cripple of Inishmaan ★★★★
God of Carnage ★★★
Faith Healer ★★½
The 13th of Paris ★★
The Three Faces of Dr. Crippen ★★★½
Some Enchanted Evening ★★★★
The Homecoming ★★★½
Agnes of God ★★★½
Circle Mirror Transformation ★★★★
The First Ladies ★★★★
Meet John Doe ★★½
Hair ★★★
Entertaining Mr. Sloan ★★★
Night and Her Stars ★★★½
The Dream Journal of Doctor Jekyll ★★½
Hercules ★★½
The Man Who Turned Into a Stick ★★½
Ethan Frome ★★★½
Precious Little ★★★
Baby Wants Candy ★★½
An Enemy of the People ★★
Terminus ★★★½
Working ★★★★
FEBRUARY 2011
The Servant of Two Masters ★★★½
The Man Who Came To Dinner ★★★
Heddatron ★★★★
Nefarious! ★★½
This ★★★
Radio Golf ★★★
The Master and Margarita ★★★
A Twist of Water ★★★★
Samuel J. and K. ★★½
The People's Four Seasons ★★★
That Was Then ★★★½
BWAAD? ★★★
Sonnets for an Old Century ★★½
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change ★★
Lost and Found: a Recycled Circus ★★★
Arms and the Man ★★★★
Iphigenia Crash Land Falls... ★★
Sleuth ★★★½
Hamlet ★★★
Tommy Gun's Garage ★★★
Sketchbook REVERB ★★½
My Filthy Hunt ★★★
Accidental Death of an Anarchist ★★★½
Run-of-the-Mill ★½
Volpone ★★★
The Merry Widow ★★★★
Mary ★★★½
Make Me Love You ★★½
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ★★
Jackie and Me ★★★★
Among the Squirrels ★★★
The Moonstone ★★★
Starship the Musical ★★★
The Wedding ★★★
Feet of Clay ★★
Guys and Dolls ★★★★
Do the Hustle ★★½
Lohengrin ★★★½
Dracula ★★★
Letters/X ★★½
El Stories: Red Line ★★★
Trouble in Mind ★★★½
Bordello ★★★
Laika: Dog in Space ★★
Dead Pile ★½
Closer ★★
Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles ★★★
The Big Meal ★★★½
Conviction ★★½
Shadowlands ★★
Church / Pullman, WA ★★★
Les Miserables ★★★
The Earl ★★★
Burn the Floor ★★★½
JANUARY 2011
Leaving Iowa ★★★
Sex with Strangers ★★½
The Boys Room ★★★★
Fairways ★½
Ghosts of Atwood ★★★½
Being Harold Pinter ★★★½
Shining City ★★★½
Ghosts ★½
reasons to be pretty ★★★½
CirqueSoleil's Dralion ★★½
Madagascar ★★
The New Electric Ballroom ★★★½
Funk It Up About Nothin' ★★★★
The Girl of the Golden West ★★★★
Short Shakespeare! Macbeth ★★★
Dog Sees God ★½
A Doll's House ★★
Skiing is Believing ★★★
Three Tall Women ★★★
The Trinity River Plays ★★★
Batterymouth: It Burns ★★★
In Darfur ★★★
Eclipsed ★★★★
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! ★★½
Lakeboat ★★★
The Boys Next Door ★★★½
9 to 5: the Musical ★★½
Grey Gardens ★½
Carmilla ★★★
Odradrek ★★★
The Beauty Queen of Leenane ★★★½
Aftermath ★★½
Six More Scary Tales ★★½
Show Your Face! ★★★½
As You Like It ★★★★
Spamalot ★★★½
Hamletmachine ★★
The Elephant Man ★★★
Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch ★★★½
Trickster ★★½
Escape from the Haltsburg Boys Choir ★★
DECEMBER 2010
Bus Stop ★★★
Hello, Dolly! ★★★½
Snow Days and Plane Delays ★★★
The Nativity ★★★½
Striking 12 ★★½
Wind in the Willows ★★★★
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ★★★½
Irving Berlin's White Christmas ★★★★
A Christmas Carl ★★½
The Observatory ★½
Rudolph the Red-Hosed Reindeer ★★★
Pirates of Penzance ★★★½
The Legend of Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet ★½
Mother Superior's Ho-Ho-Holy Night ★★★
Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Christmas Binge ★½
Alien Queen ★★★
The Mikado ★★★★
The Nutcracker ★★★★
It's A Wonderful Life:
A Radio Play
American Theater Co. ★★★
It's A Wonderful Life:
Live at the Biograph!
American Blues ★★★★
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever ★★
Wicked ★★★
Local Wonders ★★★
Lobby Hero ★★★½
Cash ★★½
NOVEMBER 2010
Redeemers ★★★
Cherry Smoke ★★
A Christmas Carol
(Drury Lane) ★★★½
Holiday in the Heights ★★★
A Masked Ball ★★★
Labour & Leisure ★★½
A Christmas Carol ★★★½
Travels With My Aunt ★★★
The Last Night of Ballyhoo ★★★★
Muerte Del Maestro ★★½
Miracle on 34th Street ★★★
Under Construction ★★★
Sanders Family Christmas ★★★½
Pancake Breakfast ★★½
A Klingon Christmas Carol ★★★
The Importance of Being Earnest ★★★
Little Women ★★½
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas ★★
Bri-Ko: All Silent. All Funny. ★★★½
Jenny & Jenni ★★★
The Wizard of Oz ★★★
The New Adventures of Popeye ★★½
The Hundred Dresses ★★★½
BRAINPEOPLE ★★★½
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune ★★★
The Four of Us ★★★½
The Nutcracker ★★★½
The Iliad ★★★½
Robin Hood: The Panto! ★★★
Toronto, Mississippi ★★★
Berwyn Avenue ★★
FLOAT ★★★★
Cats ★★★★
A Civil War Christmas ★★★
Home ★★½
Auctioning the Ainsleys ★★½
Trans Form ★★½
Course of Empire ★★★
BOOJUM! Nonsense, Truth and Lewis Carroll ★★★
It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play ★★★½
Kid Sister ★
Kiss Me, Kate ★★
The Infernal Machine ★★½
Memory ★★★½
The Music Man ★★★★
Winter Pageant 2010 ★★
Kennedy's Children ★★★
Lakefront Property ★★★½
The Story of My Life ★★
The Lonesome West ★★★
The Dining Room ★★
Sleepwalk ★★
A Crowded House ★★★
The Water Engine: An American Fable ★★★★
The Piano Teacher ★★★
A Midsummer Night's Dream ★★★½
Departure Lounge ★★★
Traces ★★★★
OCTOBER 2010
To Master the Art ★★★★
Bubble Tea Party ★★
The Devilish Children and the Civilizing Process ★★★½
The Dinner Detective ★★
Stalk ★★
The Lion King ★★★½
Long Day's Journey Into Night ★★½
The War Plays ★★★
And a Child Shall Lead ★★★½
Betrayal ★★½
In the Jungle of Cities ★★★
Defamation ★★½
Peter Pan (A Play) ★★★
Three Sisters ★★★
The Seagull ★★★★
K. ★★★
Dream of a Common Language ★★½
The Scarecrow ★★½
The Other Cinderella ★★★
Ghostbox ★★★½
Choose Thine Own Adventure ★★★★
Rocky Horror Picture Show ★★½
The Censor ★★★
Candida ★★★
Cash on Delivery ★★★
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers ★★½
Titus Andronicus ★★★★
Musical of the Living Dead ★★★
26 Miles ★★★
Kingsville ★★½
What's To Fear? ★★½
Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde" ★★½
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type ★★★½
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ★★★
State of the Union ★★★½
Reefer Madness ★★½
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ★★★
1985 ★★½
Proof ★★★½
Sweet Bird of Youth ★★★½
The Gin Game ★★★
To Kill A Mockingbird ★★★½
Luna Negra Dance ★★★
McMeekin Finds Out ★½
Me Too, I Am Catherine Deneuve ★★★½
The Rip Nelson Halloween Spooktacular ★★
Carmen ★★★½
Blood Wedding ★★½
At Home At The Zoo ★★★
Equus ★★
I Do! I Do! ★★★
Bash ★★★
Scorched ★★★★
Haff, the Man / Falling Girl ★★★★
Lullaby ★★★
Macbeth ★★★½
Too Much Memory ★★★
Big Gay Pudding ★½
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ★★★
Dracula: A Tragedy ★½
Doo-Lister's Blues ★★★
Company ★★★
SEPTEMBER 2010
(50 plays reviewed!)
Daddy Long Legs ★★
Night and Day ★★★½
Obscura ★★★
Wuthering Heights ★½
A Brief History of Helen of Troy ★★½
The Franklin Expedition ★★½
She Loves Me ★★★½
Seven Snakes ★★★
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee ★★★½
Candide ★★★½
Comedy of Errors ★★½
Rock of Ages ★★½
The Wedding Singer ★★★½
Disgrace ★★★★
Oleanna ★★★½
Speed-the-Plow ★★★
Romeo and Juliet ★★★½
The Magic Parlour ★★★½
Cupid Players: Plugged ★★
The Lady's Not For Burning ★★½
Aiming for Sainthood ★★★
Pinkalicious ★★★½
Thieves Like Us ★★½
Sunday in the Park with George ★★
The Sunshine Boys ★★★
Detroit ★★½
1001 ★★★★
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ★★★½
Low Pay? No Pay! ★★★½
Unveiled ★★½
Big River ★★★½
The Sound of a Yellow Flower ★★
Those Sensational Soulful 60's ★★★★
Louis Slotin Sonata ★★★
Juliet ★★★
Debris of the Prophet ★½
A Chorus Line ★★★★
Closure ★★½
The Book of Liz ★★★★
The Invasion of Skokie ★★★½
The Astronaut's Birthday ★★½
Theories of the Sun ★★★
Billy Elliot ★★★½
Apocalypso ★★½
A Memory of Two Mondays ★★★
Under America ★★
Our Town ★★★
Rollin' Outta Here Naked Burlesque ★★★
Jailbait ★★★½
All Saints' Day ★★★★
AUGUST 2010
Lovers ★★½
The Weir ★★★½
Hideous Progeny ★★
The Real Inspector Hound ★½
Blues for an Alabama Sky ★★½
Drum Circle Pandora ★★★
ComedySportz! ★★
The Last Daughter of Oedipus ★★★½
Hot Mikado ★★★★
Daredevils' Hamlet ★★★
Frost/Nixon ★★★★
Blackbird ★★½
Rod Blagojevich Superstar ★★★
Godspell ★★½
In Love's Bright Coils ★★½
Carousel ★★★
Peter Pan ★★★
JULY 2010 PLAYS
Spoiler Alert: Everyone Dies ★★★½
Shakespeare's R & J ★★★
Leaving Timmy ★★
Alligator ★★½
Love's Labour's Lost ★★½
LATE: A Cowboy Song ★★
BARE ★★
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet ★★½
Les Enfants Terribles: PROM NIGHT ★★★
Talk Radio ★★★½
Pinocchio ★★★
Shrek the Musical ★★★½
Jesus Christ Superstar ★★½
The League of Awesome ★★
Red Noses ★★★
Queertopia ★★★
Arizona Lady ★★
The Philadelphia Story ★★½
A Guide For The Perplexed ★★★
Dental Society Midwinter Meeting ★★★
Orestes ★★½
Hesperia ★★★
Hairspray ★★★½
Nothin' But the Blues ★★★½
After the Fall ★★★½
Daddy Long Legs ★★★
Beast Women ★★★
Twelfth Night ★★½
Bristol Renaissance Faire ★★★★
The Emperor's New Clothes ★★★½
Escape from Happiness ★★
Aida ★★★
Once on this Island ★★★
Hard Headed Heart ★★★½
A Parallelogram ★★★★
Fruit Tree Backpack ★★★
Madeleine Remains ★★
That Sordid Little Story ★★½
Shoot Faster, Dear Brother, I'm Dying! ★★★½
Living Canvas - Demons ★★★½
Herbert III and Contribution ★★★½
The Emperor's New Clothes (National Pastime) ★½
JUNE 2010 PLAYS
The Sins of Sor Juana ★½
Ghosts ★★½
Equus ★★★
Steel Magnolias ★★
Mami, Where'd My O Go? ★★½
F**king Men ★★★
Cherrywood ★★★
Lookingglass Alice ★★★½
Suicide, Incorporated ★★★
40 Whacks ★★★½
40 Whacks ★★½
Sweet and Hot ★★★
Sketchbook X ★★★
Shakespeare's King Phycus ★★★
Sex Marks the Spot ★½
The Tallest Man ★★★
Dead Letter Office ★½
Of Mice and Men ★★★½
GL 2010: Not Your Generic Latina ★★½
SUGAR ★★½
Itsoseng ★★★
The Better Doctor ★★½
Inherit the Whole ★★★½
Cirque Shanghai: Cloud 9 ★★★½
Million Dollar Quartet ★★★½
An Evening With David Sedaris ★★★
Blue Man Group ★★★★
No Exit ★★★
Low Down Dirty Blues ★★★½
Little Shop of Horrors ★★★
Yeomen of the Guard ★★★★
Cirque Dreams Illumination ★★½
MAY 2010 PLAYS
Oh, Boy! ★★★
Casanova Takes a Bath ★★★
Hunting and Gathering ★★★
Sizwe Bandi Is Dead ★★★
Tobacco Road ★★★
Sun, Stand Thou Still ★★★
Baal ★★★½
The Odd Couple ★★
Fuerza Bruta: Look Up ★★★
War With The Newts ★★★½
Jacob and Jack ★★★
2,000 Feet Away ★★½
The 39 Steps ★★★
Body Awareness ★★★½
People We Know ★★★½
Mid-life! A Crisis Musical ★★
The Gay American ★★★½
A Streetcar Named Desire ★★★★
Electra ★★★½
The Marriage of Bette and Boo ★★★
On Golden Pond ★★½
Crisis - A Musical Game Show ★★★★
The Ghost Sonata ★★
Lady X ★★★½
Typing Up Loose Ends ★★★
Chaste ★★★★
Neverwhere ★★★½
The Samaritan Syndrome ★★★
Tad in the 5th City ★★★½
The Love of the Nightingale ★★★
The Regulars ★★
Aftermath ★★★
The Drowsy Chaperone ★★★½
Jade Heart ★★½
The Good Negro ★★★
Sweet Tea ★★★
The Absolutely Best Friggin' Time of Your Life ★★★½
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee ★★★
Point Break Live! ★★★
Charley's Sonata ★½
The Last Cargo Cult ★★½
Avenue Q ★★★★
APRIL 2010 PLAYS
The Pigeons ★★★½
Spin ★★★
Feast ★★★½
Effie ★½
The Good Soul of Szechuan ★★★
STOMP ★★★
How Theater Failed America ★★★
Jason ★★★½
Gimme Change ★★★
Ten Unknowns ★★½
Spring Awakening ★★½
Curse of the Starving Class ★★★
Welcome to Arroyo's ★★½
The Hiding Place ★★½
The Farnsworth Invention ★★★½
Doctor's Dilemma ★★★
Cabaret ★★★½
Moses in Egypt ★★★½
Heaven Can Wait ★★½
Cougars! The Musical ★★★
The Meatlocker ★★★
Six Dead Queens and an Inflatable Henry ★★★
The House of Yes ★★★
Girls vs Boys ★½
Days of Late ★★★
Taming of the Shrew ★★½
Blithe Spirit ★★★½
Hephaestus: A Greek Mythology Circus Tale ★★★½
Stage Door ★★★½
The Ghosts of Treasure Island ★★★
The Wreck of the Medusa ★★★½
High School Musical ★★½
Into the Woods ★★★
The Body Snatchers ★★★
Endgame ★★★½
The Play About the Baby ★★★
Billy Elliot the Musical ★★★½
The Literati ★★★½
Ragtime ★★★★
Ring Around the Guillotine ★★½
Abe's in a Bad Way ★★★
Resurrection Blues ★★★½
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ★★★
Hello Again ★★★½
Swear Jar ★★
You Took Away My Flag ★½
Our Lady of the Underpass ★★★
MARCH 2010 PLAYS
Mud ★★½
A Gulag Mouse ★★★
Ozma and Harriet ★
The Lost Boys of Sudan ★★½
Magical Explodng Boy ★★★
⇒ A Life ★★½
Street Scene ★½
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind ★★★★
The Twins Would Like to Say ★★★½
The Crucible ★★★
Beauty and the Beast ★★
Messiah on the Frigidaire ★★★½
Medea with Child ★★★★
The Bloody Fabulous Curse of Dragula ★★★
The Illusion ★★★
My Brother's Keeper ★★★★
A True History of the Johnstown Flood ★½
J.B. ★★★½
Right As Rain ★½
Les Liaisons Dangereuses ★★★★
Hey! Dancin'! ★★★½
Science Fiction: An Experiment in Circus ★★★½
Side Man ★★★★
Legion ★★½
Uncle Vanya ★★★★
Just an Ordinary Man ★★★½
Agamamnon ★★★
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ★★½
The DNA Trail ★★
Blue Shadow ★★★
Trust ★★★½
The Breakfast Club Musical ★★½
Wild Nights with Emily ★★½
AjaxAntigone ★★★
Mimesophobia ★★★★
Jerry and Tom ★
Epic Proportions ★★½
Number of People ★★★
Chess ★★½
Sleeping Beauty ★★★
Lower Debt ★
Beautiful City ★★★
Alegria ★★★½
An Evening with Lupone and Patinkin ★★★½
FEBRUARY 2010 PLAYS
Songs for a Future Generation ★★★
Adore ★★½
punkplay ★★★
Orange Flower Water ★★★½
Rent ★★★
Marriage of Figaro ★★★★
Evolution/Creation ★★★
A Separate Peace ★★★
Here Where It's Safe ★★½
Dancing at Lughnasa ★★★
Vanishing Points ★★★
Peter Pan ★★★½
Fiddler on the Roof ★★½
The Rant ★★★★
Pretty Penny ★★½
Living Quarters ★★★½
Noises Off ★★
Abigail's Party ★★★½
Uncle Vanya ★★★
Twelve Angry Men ★★★
A Love Lost Life ★★
The Long Red Road ★★★★
200 Bullets and Seven Poison Apples ★★★
The Gimmick ★★
Over The Tavern ★★½
The 101 Dalmatians ★
The Damnation of Faust ★★★½
The Island ★★½
The Ring Cycle ★★★
The Old Settler ★★★
Blue Door ★★½
That's Weird, Grandma ★★★★
Aelita & Shiny Boxes ★★
Mrs. Caliban ★★★★
The Analytical Engine ★★★
Return to Haifa ★★★
Fathers And Sons ★★½
Breakfast Club - The Totally 80s Musical ★★½
Wilson Wants It All ★★★
The Skin of Our Teeth ★★½
Rush Limbaugh! The Musical ★★★
Almost, Maine ★★★
I AM A CAMERA ★★★
The Philanderer ★★★
Wiggerlover ★★★★
The Cabinet ★★★½
The Emigrants ★★★
Distracted ★½
Lucid ★★½
August: Osage County ★★★½
JANUARY 2010 PLAYS
Awake and Sing ★★★★
Jeeves in Bloom ★★★
Brother/Sister Plays ★★★★
Living Newspapers Festival ★★★
Whack! ★½
The Year of Magical Thinking ★★★½
The Castle ★★
'Master Harold' and the Boys ★★★½
Hughie/Krapp's Last Tape ★★★
First Words ★★★★
Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr ★★
Kink ★★
Elixir of Love ★★★½
Glitter in the Gutter ★★½
Lost in Yonkers ★★★
Out of Order ★★★★
Harper Regan ★★½
Mary's Wedding ★★½
Annie ★★★
The Artist Needs a Wife ★
The Exonerated ★★
I Am My Own Wife ★★★★
The Wedding ★★★½
Dreamgirls ★★★★
24th Annual Young Playwrights Festival ★★★
I Hate Hamlet ★★
The True Story of the 3 Pigs ★★★
The (edward) Hopper Project ★★
Killer Joe ★★★½
Private Lives ★★★
Yoni Ki Baat ★★½
Tosca ★★★½
Funny Girl ★★★
Minna ★★★★
The Last of the Dragons ★★★
DECEMBER 2009 PLAYS
Pirates of Penzance ★★★
In the Heights ★★★
My Fair Lady ★★★½
American Buffalo ★★★★
Mid-Winter's Tales '09 ★★★
A Very Merry Children's Scientology Pageant ★★½
Rudolph the Red-Hosed Reindeer ★★★
A Christmas Carol ★★★½
Patchwork USA ★★½
The Addams Family ★★★
Taming of the Flu ★★★★
Santaland Diaries ★★★
The Merry Widow ★★★½
Mark & Laura's Christmas Special ★
Bright Star ★★★
Mother Superior's Ho-Ho-Holy Night ★★½
Oh Coward! ★★★½
The Snow Queen ★★★
The Christmas Schooner ★★★★
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer ★★★½
Lunatic(a)s ★★★½
Banana Shpeel ★★
Two Plays by Beau O'Reilly ★★★
Hunky Dory ★½
It's a Wonderful Life ★★★
Miracle on 34th Street ★★★★
Winter Pageant ★★½
A Very Merry Children's Scientology Pageant ★★★
NOVEMBER 2009 PLAYS
Souvenir ★★★★
Democracy ★★★
Cuba and His Teddy Bear ★★★
1985 ★★★
The Pillowman ★★★
The Mystery of Irma Vep ★★★★
Rewind ★★½
South Pacific ★★★★
G.I.F.T. ★
Carnival Nocturne ★★
Becoming Ingrid ★★★
The Happy Family Series ★★★
Little Women ★★★
Dr. Harlon's Key to Better Living ★★★
Cooperstown ★★
End Days ★★½
Perseus and Medusa ★★★
All the Fame of Lofty Deeds ★★★
How to Disappear Completely & Never Be Found ★★★
When She Danced ★★½
Thoroughly Modern Millie ★★★
Horrible ★½
1512 Studebaker Place ★★½
Home Front ★
Sex ★★
MusicalDEEP ★★
Summer People ★★★
Days to Come ★★½
The Glorious Ones ★★★
OCTOBER 2009 PLAYS
Ernani ★★★
Lucinda's Bed ★★★
Frankenstein ★★
These Shining Lives ★★★★
You Can't Take It With You ★★★
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead ★★★★
The 100 Dresses ★★★★
Man of La Mancha ★★★
Heroes ★★★★
The Modern Prometheus ★★★
Votes for Women! ★★
Carpenters Halloween ★★★
Two by Pinter ★★
Lettice and Lovage ★★★★
Kill the Old, Torture Their Young ★★
St. Crispin's Day ★★
Hairspray ★★★★
Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity ★★★½
Death of a Salesman ★★★½
Ivanov ★★½
Mouse in a Jar ★★★
ObamaNation: Revised Edition! ★★
An Apology..Deliveredy by Doctor John Faustus... ★★★★
Animal Crackers ★★★
The Mercy Seat ★★½
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom ★★★★
SEPTEMBER 2009 PLAYS
Richard III ★★★★
The Fantasticks ★★½
Fear ★★★½
Yeast Nation ★★★½
12 Ophelias ★★½
Fake ★★½
The Hostage ★★
Stoop Stories ★★★½
Treasure Island ★★★½
Mistakes Were Made ★★★
Cotton Patch Gospel ★★★½
Black Comedy ★½
boom ★★½
Baal ★★
The Night Season ★★★★
The Alumni Bow ★★★
Under Milk Wood ★★
Taming of the Shrew ★★★
All My Sons ★★★★
AUGUST 2009 PLAYS
Cabaret ★★½
The Hecubae ★
My Fair Lady ★★★
Moonshiner ★★★½
The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret ★★★½
Put My Finger in Your Mouth ★½
Lies & Liars ★½
Honest ★★
Sex with Strangers ★★★★
Ski Dubai ★★
Six Degrees of Separation ★★★
Waiting for Godot ★★★★
JULY 2009 PLAYS
Never the Sinner ★★★
Bent ★★½
Shotgun Shakespeare ★½
Blackbird ★★★½
Up ★★★
Fifth of July ★★½
Boleros for the Disenchanted ★★★★
Tragedy of Doctor Faustus ★
Sodomites! ★★★½
JAN-JUNE 2009 PLAYS
Pill Hill ★★★★
The Caretaker ★★★
A Song for Coretta ★★
Graceland ★★★
Cut to the Chase ★★
iAlone ★★★
Fiddler on the Roof ★★★★
A Little Night Music ★★★½
Buried Child ★★½
Oedipus ★★★★
Love Person ★★★
The Arabian Nights ★★★½
Cirque Shanghai: Bright Spirit." ★★½
The Crowd You're In With ★★★
The Piano Lesson ★★★
The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged) ★★½
Busman Honeymoon ★★★
Rock 'n' Roll ★★★★
The Lieutenant of Inishmore ★★★½
Hedda Gabler ★★★½
Million Dollar Quartet ★★★½
Enemy of the People ★½
Macbeth ★★½
Twelfth Night ★★★½
2008 PLAYS
Dublin Carol ★★★½
No Darkness Round My Stone ★★★★
Radium Girls ★★★★
Portrait of Dorian Gray ★★★★
Weekend ★★★
Fast Forward ★★★½
Much Ado About Nothing ★★★★
Kooza ★★★★
Cirque Shanghai: Gold ★★★★
Mark of Zorro ★★★★
Jacques Brel's Lonesome Losers Of The Night ★★★★
Questa ★★
A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Queer Tale ★★★½
Relatively Close ★★★★
Hizzoner ★★★
Intrigue With Faye ★★½
Boneyard Prayer ★★★½
The Strangerer ★★★★
Los Desaparecidos ★★★
Dead Man's Cell Phone ★★★
Talking It Over ★★
Carter's Way ★★★½
Dolly West's Kitchen ★★½
Cadillac ★★★½
Songs for a New World ★★★½
Requiem for a Heavyweight ★★★★
Good Boys and True ★★★
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Suddenly, Last Summer ★★★★
Altar Boyz ★★★½
iHole ★★★
Mrs. Warren's Profession ★★★
Adding Machine ★★★
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