by James Lapine
"In her excellent biography of Stephen Sondheim, Meryle Secret describes the birth of Into the Woods as midwifed by Sondheim and his longtime creative partner James Lapine's desire to come up with a musical that was bright, lighthearted and funny."
http://www.curtainup.com/intothewoods.html
"The musical delves into the darker side of beloved childhood fairytales, drawing out the reality behind happily-ever-after"
http://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2008/November/nov3_intothewoods.shtml
2)You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
by Clark Gesner
"It will make you smile ear to ear, then maybe cause you drop a tear or two at the end. You can't ask for more than that.You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown"
http://www.lexisnexis.com.unx1.shsu.edu:2048/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=true&risb=21_T6548008895&format=GNBFI&sort=RELEVANCE&startDocNo=1&resultsUrlKey=29_T6548008898&cisb=22_T6548008897&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&csi=8286&docNo=2
3) Moon Over Buffalo
by Ken Ludwig
"FADING rep stars George and Charlotte Hay are on the way out yet still dreaming of a big break, in this amusing comedy by Ken Ludwig."
http://www.lexisnexis.com.unx1.shsu.edu:2048/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=true&risb=21_T6548025485&format=GNBFI&sort=RELEVANCE&startDocNo=1&resultsUrlKey=29_T6548025493&cisb=22_T6548025492&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&csi=166681&docNo=1
"If comedies and farces are your favorite choice of theatre, then Moon Over Buffalo, is sure to please."
http://huntsville.about.com/od/theatreanddance/a/moonoverbuffalo.htm
4) Andrew Lippa's Wild Party
by Andrew Lippa
"Much like a musical soap opera, The Wild Party unfolds an evening of raw and unapologetic passion that gets a bit too in your face for perhaps the average theater patron."
http://broadwayworld.com/article/Lippas_Wild_Party_20040321
"The Wild Party may not be the perfect musical we've all been looking for but it's great fun to watch and puts enough talent on display to have warranted a longer run than it will have."
http://www.curtainup.com/wildpartymtc.html
5) The Heiress -
by Ruth & Augustus Goetz
"may not be at the cutting edge of innovative drama, but that does not preclude it being an enjoyable evening."
http://www.curtainup.com/heiress.html
"It's the literate, highly theatrical Ruth and Augustus Goetz adaptation of the Henry James novel "Washington Square" (1880), a psychological horror story set in the upper reaches of genteel New York society in the 1850's."
http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=990CE0DC1F3CF933A25750C0A963958260
6) Reckless
by Craig Lucas
"It calls for plenty of humor and surprise until about a third or a quarter of the way from the end, at which point the tone darkens and the laughs dry up."
http://www.portifex.com/LArts/Reckless.htm
"In the course of this animated production from the Manhattan Theater Club, directed with subversive buoyancy by Mark Brokaw, Ms. Parker's smile will waver, tighten and shrink in ways that seem to age her at least a decade. And by the show's end, you may feel as if you've undergone a fast-forwarded program in Prozac withdrawal."
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2004/10/15/theater/reviews/15RECK.html
7) Medea
by Euripides
"Evil enters the house of scorned enchantress Medea -- and stays there until the bitter end as Manitoba Theatre Centre takes another tragic stab at Euripides."
http://jam.canoe.ca/Theatre/Reviews/M/Medea/2008/11/22/7496256-sun.html
"A muddled, sort of revisionist version, though, is what we have in Theodora Skipitares’s flat new production at La MaMa."
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/theater/reviews/19mede.html
8)Henry V -
by William Shakespeare
"But those comic bookends were received with warm enjoyment over the weekend at the New Victory Theater, where children almost outnumbered adults at the Acting Company and Guthrie Theater’s co-production. "
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/theater/reviews/03henry.html
"Henry V is an almost complete study of the war with France in the early 1400s told entirely from the English point of view"
http://www.curtainup.com/henry5lond.html
9) Transit of Venus
by Maureen Hunter
"-- and to put first things first, these women are the stellar magnets drawing you into this historical romance-cum-astrological adventure, (more a misadventure) both in fact as in this faction.)"
http://www.curtainup.com/b-venus.html
"Although it is, at its core, a love story, it also tackles the big questions of destiny, science and, in subtext, the face of God."
http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Transit%20of%20Venus
10) Thoroughly Modern Millie
by Richard Henry Morris
"For this ''Millie'' has shed the barbs of irony for a fuzzy high-spiritedness."
http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9C0CEFD8173FF93AA25757C0A9649C8B63
"But talent is not enough. Two shortcomings ultimately defeat this well intentioned show – a lack of creative imagination and several painfully miscast leads. And without those, you cannot have a first-class musical comedy."
http://www.musicals101.com/millie.htm
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