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Gleeful Innocence ByNANCY DEWOLF SMITH

Fox's "Glee" has so much going for it that its dirt-sophomoric humor-doesn't stick.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Y'all Don't Cut Down That Cherry Tree! By TERRY TEACHOUT

California's Theatricum Botanicum has given Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" a biracial rewrite, setting it in Virginia in 1970. Does it work?

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

A Web of Superstition By ELLEN GAMERMAN

As 'Spider-Man' suspends construction, some wonder if a theater is cursed

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

The Heart That Victoria Broke By TERRY TEACHOUT

Peterborough Players' production of "Heartbreak House" is vastly better than the big-budget Broadway version by the Roundabout Theatre Company. Also, Berkshire Theatre Festival's revival of …

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Summer Scoops Live: Bill T. Jones and Stew Dish About Collaboration, Getting Naked By Ellen Gamerman

Bill T. Jones and his closest collaborators from the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company join Passing Strange co-creators Stew and Heidi Rodewald, and WSJ's Wendy Bounds for a passionate …

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

The Sopranos in Santa Fe By HEIDI WALESON

New general director Charles MacKay scores a diva trifecta with three productions at the Santa Fe Opera, including the world premiere of "The Letter."

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

What's Up, Bard? By TERRY TEACHOUT

Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass., stages the Bard's comedy "Twelfth Night," while Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, Mass., takes on Tennessee Williams's "A Streetcar Named Desire."

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Giant Steps By MICHELLE KUNG

The Tony-winning choreographer Bill T. Jones prepares two new shows, "Fondly Do We Hope... Fervently Do We Pray," on Lincoln, and the musical "Fela!," on Fela Kuti.

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Double Exposure By TERRY TEACHOUT

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'Arcadia' Exudes Stoppard's Best

"Arcadia" is Tom Stoppard's best single play, and the revival at the Duke of York's Theatre in London shows why.

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The Man for One Season By JOANNE KAUFMAN

Nick Ruggeri's still waiting for his big Broadway break, but at summer stock he's a star.

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Spike Lee Shoots Broadway By CANDACE JACKSON

How the director of "Do the Right Thing" and "Malcolm X" came to make a film version of the critically-acclaimed Broadway rock musical "Passing Strange."

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Sandford Dody 1918 - 2009<br> A Ghostwriter Who Struggled to Accept Life in the Shadows By STEPHEN MILLER

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That Was No Lady By TERRY TEACHOUT

Brian Bedford's brilliantly zany staging of "The Importance of Being Earnest" is good enough all by itself to justify a trip to the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

The Audience Goes Wild By ELLEN GAMERMAN

As summer festival season heats up, outdoor productions battle the intrusions of nature; a raccoon's soliloquy

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Really Up to Date in River City By TERRY TEACHOUT

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Bill Rauch has done the seemingly impossible, creating a high-concept "The Music Man" in which every detail has been rethought and refurbished.

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Laughs During Wartime By CANDACE JACKSON

Former "Sopranos" star James Gandolfini on his new indie satire, "In the Loop."

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Coming to America By ELLEN GAMERMAN

Last season, British shows got top Broadway awards. With the help of Jude Law and drag queens, they may do it again.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

The Entertainers By GWEN OREL

They shared respect, as well as sorrow--both men had lost their wives. But where Berlin was a genius of music and of marketing, Joplin was only one of music, says Mr. Saltzman, whose first p…

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Pericles' Excellent Adventures By TERRY TEACHOUT

The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival has given the Bard's least well-known play a staging so lucid, genial and persuasive that you'll wonder why it isn't as popular as "Twelfth Night."

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

He Said, She Did By TERRY TEACHOUT

However you interpret David Mamet's "Oleanna," it's definitely not the work of a playwright who takes a rosy view of human nature.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Mirren Breathes Passion Into Boy-Toy Story by Paul Levy

Helen Mirren has chosen an ambitious work for her return to the stage after five years: Racine's 17th-century tragedy, "Phèdre," about a middle-aged queen who lusts after her stepson.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Bachelorettes in the House By ELLEN GAMERMAN

"Girls Night" tries to lure partying women to Off Broadway.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Stop the Music: Oscar Misses the Melody By ERIC FELTEN

Why Hollywood doesn't produce good songs anymore.

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A Shaw Musical to Sing About

Terry Teachout reviews "A Minister's Wife," a new musical version of George Bernard Shaw's "Candida" that is the talk of Chicagoland.

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