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NEW! We've begun to list and hyperlink our entire archives to make reviews and features, old and new, even easier to find! Come visit the Master List pages!

DAVE'S GONE BY is back every Saturday! Next show: Sat, Sept. 18, 10am-1pm(MT) at UNC Radio of Northern Colorado.  

Hear episode (#325) of Dave's Gone By: "We Love Lucy"
featuring Dave's chat with singer-songwriter Lucy Kaplansky. Plus: Inside Broadway (A Little Night Music) and  the new song, "Drink `til I'm Drunk."

RECENT ADDITIONS

CRITICOPIA – Broadway

The Addams Family (Lunt Fontanne Theater, Richmond Shepard, rev. 4/10, open run)

American Idiot (St. James Theater, Richmond Shepard, rev. 4/10, open run)

Fela! (Eugene O'Neill Theater, Richmond Shepard, rev. 1/10, open run)

In the Heights (Richard Rodgers Theater, Anne Siegel, rev. 5/08; open run)

In the Heights (Richard Rodgers Theater, Michael Portantiere, rev. 8/10; open run)

La Cage aux Folles (Longacre Theater, Richmond Shepard, rev. 4/09; open run)

A Little Night Music (Walter Kerr Theater, Richmond Shepard, rev. 12/09; open run)

A Little Night Music (Walter Kerr Theater, Michael Portantiere, rev. 8/10; open run)

Memphis (Shubert Theater, Richmond Shepard, rev. 10/09; open run)

Memphis (Shubert Theater, Ellis Nassour, rev. 10/09; open run)

Memphis (Shubert Theater, Elyse Trevers, rev. 10/09; open run)

Million Dollar Quartet (Nederlander Theater, Richmond Shepard, rev. 5/10; open run)

next to normal (Booth Theater, Anne Siegel, rev. 10/09; open run)

next to normal (Booth Theater, Richmond Shepard, rev. 1/10; open run)

Phantom of the Opera (Majestic Theater, David Lefkowitz, rev. 9/94; open run)

Phantom of the Opera (Majestic Theater, Ellis Nassour, rev. 1997; open run)

Promises, Promises (Broadway Theater, Richmond Shepard, rev. 5/10; open run)

West Side Story (Palace Theater, Diana Barth, rev. 4/09; open run)

West Side Story (Palace Theater, Richmond Shepard, rev. 3/09; open run)

CRITICOPIA – off-Broadway

Awesome Dance, The (The Cherry Pit, Richmond Shepard, rev. 9/10, To 9/25/10)

Gazillion Bubble Show (New World Stages, Richmond Shepard, rev. 11/08, open run)

Gazillion Bubble Show (New World Stages, Richmond Shepard, rev. 11/08, open run)

The Grand Manner (LCT - Mitzi Newhouse, Richmond Shepard, rev. 8/10, open run)

Love, Loss and What I Wore (Westside Theater, Richmond Shepard, rev. 12/09, open run)

Love, Loss and What I Wore (Westside Theater, Elyse Trevers, rev. 12/09, open run)

Magic and Zone (Bleecker Street Theater, Richmond Shepard, rev. 7/09, open run)

Our Town (Barrow Street Theater, Simon Saltzman, rev. 2/09; to 9/10) 

Our Town (Barrow Street Theater, Richmond Shepard, rev. 8/09; to 9/10)

Revealed... (Under St. Marks, Richmond Shepard, rev. 8/09; open run)

Viagara Falls (Little Shubert Theater, Richmond Shepard, rev. 8/10; open run)

CRITICOPIA – Regional

CRITICOPIA – International

As You Like It (Stratford Festival; Ontario, Canada; Herbert M. Simpson; rev. 6/10; To: 10/31/10)

Oliver! (Theatre Royal - Drury Lane, London, UK, Richmond Shepard; rev. 7/10; To: 1/8/11)

One Touch of Venus (Shaw Festival, Ontario, Canada; Herbert M. Simpson; rev. 6/10; To: 10/10/10)

The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty's Theater; Marie J. Kilker; rev. 2/02; open run)

The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Stratford Festival; Ontario, Canada; Herbert M. Simpson; rev. 8/10; To 9/19/10)

RECORDINGS

Rock of Ages (2009 Broadway cast; Michael Portantiere; rev. 7/09)

West Side Story (2009 Broadway cast; Michael Portantiere; rev. 7/09)

PERIODICA

Critics Be Damned? (Michael Portantiere) (9/10)

Words to Deplore and Defend the Image: Thoughts On David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow (Micah Nathan) (6/10)

If It Only Even Runs a Minute: Musical Flops Revisited (Michael Portantiere) (5/10)

TotalTheater.com’s Criticopia section now includes nearly 500 Broadway reviews and more than 400 off-Broadway reviews and 1400 regional reviews. Our Periodica section offers over 300 feature stories about such notables as Chita Rivera, William Finn, Arthur Laurents, Cherry Jones, Jerry Herman, Roman Polanski and Mae West.

So surf & search and let us know your thoughts -- and welcome to TotalTheater.com!

OUR HISTORY

In 2000, after nearly a decade publishing This Week On Stage and then This Month On Stage, editor-in-chief David Lefkowitz founded TotalTheater.com as a way of migrating the reviews and feature stories of those hardcopy publications onto the internet. Working with George Nevrodis of PresentMedia, TotalTheater was designed to be a living archive of modern theater criticism and comment.

In January 2001, the TotalTheater company became co-publisher of the hard-copy journal, Performing Arts Insider, an industry journal covering Broadway, Off & Off-Off-Broadway, regional theater, NYC cabaret, opera, dance and special events. PAI has been a respected “bible” of the entertainment professionals for decades, now more comprehensive and easy to use than ever. For more information and a look of PAI's content, please check out our website: Performing Arts Insider.

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