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Tuesday, 01 December 2009 15:00

Reviews by Patricia Baugh-Riechers, Audra Beals, Kim Eastland, Emily Heninger, Paula Jolly, Mike Schulz, Joy Thompson, Oz Torres, and Jill (Pearson) Walsh.

Augustana College:

Big Funk, The (2009)

Black Comedy (2006)

Blood Wedding (2008)

Dead Man Walking (2007)

Fantasticks, The (2008)

Importance of Being Earnest, The (2005)

Laramie Project, The (2005)

Learned Ladies, The (2009)

Miser, The (2006)

Nickel & Dimed (2006)

Omniscience (2009)

Quilters (2004)

Rashomon (2003)

Real Inspector Hound, The (2006)

Romance Language (2008)

The Seagull (2010)

The Secret Garden (2010)

Stuff Happens (2007)

Taming of the Shrew, The (2007)

Black Hawk College:

Death in Character (2008)

Dinner Party, The (2009)

Galileo (2003)

Going Underground (2007)

Jack, Or the Submission (2008)

Laundry & Bourbon (2006)

Lone Star (2006)

Scottish Play, The: A Travesty! (2005)

Ugly Duckling, The (2007)

Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse:

Aesop's Dynamic Duo (2006)

Almighty Bob (2003)

Almost Heaven: Songs of John Denver (2007)

Are We There Yet? (2008)

Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (2008)

Cats (2006)

Charlotte's Web (2007)

Christmas Carol, A (2007)

Christmas from the Heart (2005)

Church Basement Ladies (2007)

Church Basement Ladies (2009)

Church Basement Ladies 2: A Second Helping (2010)

Discovering Elvis (2001)

Don't Dress for Dinner (2007)

8-Track: The Sounds of the 70's (2010)

Elves & the Shoemaker, The (2006)

Empty Nest (2008)

Frosty's Magic Hat (2009)

Full Monty, The (2008)

Getting Momma Married (2002)

Go, Dog. Go! (2010)

Goldilocks & the Three Bears (2007)

Grease (2006)

Hello, Dolly! (2004)

Holly Jolly Christmas (2009)

Irving Berlin's White Christmas (2006)

Irving Berlin's White Christmas (2007)

Jesus Christ Superstar (2001)

Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (2005)

Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (2010)

Junie B. Jones & a Little Monkey Business (2009)

King & I, The (2005)

Lovely Liebowitz Sisters, The (2006)

Meshuggah-Nuns! (2005)

Mid-Life! The Crisis Musical (2009)

Miss Nelson Has a Field Day (2010)

Miss Nelson Is Missing (2008)

Oh Mama! No Papa! (2005)

Oklahoma! (2007)

On Golden Pond (2006)

Peter Pan (2009)

Pinkalicious (2009)

Pippi Longstocking (2005)

Pump Boys & Dinettes (2005)

Ring of Fire (2009)

Smoke on the Mountain (2000)

Smoke on the Mountain (2008)

Smokey Joe's Cafe (2004)

Snow White (2008)

Snowderella (2008)

Squabbles (2010)

Stand by Your Man: The Tammy Wynette Story (2006)

State Fair (2000)

Stuart Little (2005)

Ugly Duckling, The (2006)

Vaudeville (2008)

West Side Story (2007)

Whodunit... the Musical (2010)

Winnie the Pooh (2005)

Winter Wonderland (2000)

Wizard of Oz, The (2003)

Wonderful Life, A (2008)

Clinton Area Showboat Theatre:

Always... Patsy Cline (2007)

Anything Goes (2006)

Beauty & the Beast (2005)

Best Christmas Pageant Ever, The (2009)

Big River (2010)

Biloxi Blues (2009)

Cabaret (2006)

Chicago (2008)

Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shakspr {abridged}, The (2008)

Damn Yankees (2005)

Death Defying Acts (2009)

Don't Drink the Water (2005)

Guys & Dolls (2007)

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (2007)

Incredible Sex (2006)

Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (2009)

King & I, The (2006)

Last Five Years, The (2009)

Lend Me a Tenor (2007)

Mousetrap, The (2006)

Noises Off (2010)

Rent (2010)

Ruthless (2005)

Show Boat (2010)

Singin' in the Rain (2009)

Sound of Music, The (2005)

Sunday in the Park with George (2010)

Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2008)

Thoroughly Modern Millie (2008)

You Can't Take It with You (2007)

Countryside Community Theatre:

Annie (2010)

Annie Get Your Gun (2009)

Children of Eden (2008)

The Fantasticks (2007)

Oklahoma! (2010)

Oliver! (2006)

Seussical (2007)

Sound of Music, The (2008)

South Pacific (2009)

Wizard of Oz, The (2000)

Curtainbox Theatre Company:

Art (2010)

Danny & the Deep Blue Sea (2008)

Fool for Love (2010)

Glengarry Glen Ross (2009)

Three Viewings (2008)

Wit (2010)

Genesius Guild:

Andromache (2010)

Antigone (2006)

As You Like It (2007)

Birds, The (2006)

Clouds, The (2008)

Comedian, The (2006)

Comedy of Errors, The (2008)

Electra (2008)

Frogs, The (2007)

Hecuba (2009)

Henry the Sixth: The Contention (2009)

Henry the Sixth: Richard, Duke of York (2009)

Knights, The (2005)

Macbeth (2002)

Medea (2007)

A Midsummer Night's Dream (2010)

Much Ado About Nothing (2005)

Plutus (2003)

Richard III (2000)

Richard III (2010)

Romeo & Juliet (2008)

Seven Against Thebes (2006)

Tempest, The (2006)

Thesmophoriazusae (2009)

Winter's Tale, The (2007)

Ghostlight Theatre, Inc.:

Children of Eden (2000)

Noises Off (2005)

Underpants, The (2004)

Will Rogers Follies, The (2005)

Green Room Theatre:

Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (2008)

Angels in America: Perestroika (2008)

Assassins (2008)

Carousel (2007)

Doubt: A Parable (2009)

Eleemosynary (2008)

Fully Committed (2008)

Glass Menagerie, The (2007)

john & jen (2008)

Melville Boys, The (2008)

Songs for a New World (2009)

Steel Magnolias (2009)

Harrison Hilltop Theatre:

Almost, Maine (2008)

Dog Sees God (2010)

Graduate, The (2009)

Llorona, La (2009)

Long Day's Journey into Night (2009)

Mono-Blogs: Suffering Fools (2008)

Odd Couple, The (2008)

Oedipus Rex (2009)

Of Mice & Men (2009)

Rent (2010)

Rocky Horror Show, The (2009)

Santaland Diaries, The (2008)

Streetcar Named Desire, A (2008)

Sunday in the Park with George (2010)

Thom Pain [based on nothing] (2009)

tick... tick... BOOM! (2009)

Tired American Dream (2010)

True West (2009)

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (2010)

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2010)

Woman in Black, The (2008)

Zoo Story, The (2009)

My Verona Productions:

Closer (2005)

Dingo Boogaloo 2: Taco's Revenge (2005)

Nonconformists Double Bill, The (2006)

Inside Out (2008)

Oleanna (2007)

Pillowman, The (2006)

This Is Our Youth (2005)

Tuesdays with Morrie (2007)

Santaland Diaries, The (2005)

New Ground Theatre:

Bad Dates (2007)

Boston Marriage (2005)

Boy Gets Girl (2006)

Closer Than Ever (2008)

Cowbird (2009)

Dinner with Friends (2002)

Drawer Boy, The (2005)

Female Problems: A Musical (2004)

Going Back Naked: Two Plays by Local Playwrights (2009)

Infinite Ache, An (2004)

Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol (2006)

Journey for a Reason (2003)

Living Here (2007)

Lobby Hero (2003)

'night, Mother (2010)

100 Saints You Should Know (2010)

Scotland Road (2005)

Spinning into Butter (2002)

String Fever (2006)

Swimming in the Shallows (2009)

Talley's Folly (2004)

Winning Streak, The (2006)

Opera @ Augustana:

Godspell (2003)

Mikado, The (2006)

Patience (2007)

Pirates of Penzance, The (2005)

Playcrafters Barn Theatre:

Altar Call (2005)

Anne of Green Gables (2008)

Any Number Can Die (2010)

Anybody for Murder? (2008)

Born Yesterday (2004)

Catfish Moon (2007)

Children's Hour, The (2009)

Crimes of the Heart (2008)

Dickens' Christmas Carol: A Traveling Travesty in Two Tumultuous Acts (2000)

Enchanted April (2005)

Fences (2010)

Flaming Idiots (2007)

Harold & Maude (2002)

It's a Wonderful Life (2005)

Kindertransport (2004)

Love Letters (2003)

Moon Over Buffalo (2010)

Mousetrap, The (2009)

Murder at the Howard Johnson's (2009)

Nerd, The (2005)

The O'Conner Girls (2010)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (2006)

Our Town (2006)

Out of Sight, Out of Murder (2006)

Over the River & through the Woods (2006)

Papa's Angels (2009)

Promises, Promises (2008)

Raisin in the Sun, A (2009)

Rounding Third (2006)

See How They Run (2009)

Strangers on a Train (2007)

Sweet & Hot: The Songs of Harold Arlen (2006)

Swinging on a Star (2007)

Sylvia (2007)

Trip to Bountiful, The (2008)

12 Angry Men (2008)

Uh-Oh, Here Comes Christmas (2007)

Woman in Black, The (2004)

Prenzie Players:

Cyrano de Bergerac (2010)

King Henry the Fifth (2007)

King Henry the Fourth (2007)

King Richard the Second (2006)

Life's a Dream (2008)

Merchant of Venice, The (2008)

Midsummer Night's Dream, A (2006)

Much Ado About Nothing (2009)

Othello (2007)

Taming of the Shrew, The (2008)

Troilus & Cressida (2010)

Trojan Women (2009)

Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will (2005)

The Winter's Tale (2009)

Quad City Music Guild:

Aida (2006)

All Shook Up (2009)

Anything Goes (2007)

Beauty & the Beast (2005)

Beehive (2007)

Curtains (2010)

Evita (2008)

Fiddler on the Roof (2005)

George M! (2006)

Grease (2010)

Guys & Dolls (2010)

It's a Wonderful Life: The Musical (2006)

Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (2007)

King & I, The (2009)

Kiss Me, Kate (2003)

Little Women (2008)

Miracle on 34th Street (2007)

My Fair Lady (2008)

Once Upon a Mattress (2008)

Producers, The (2009)

Seussical (2009)

Sugar (2005)

Thoroughly Modern Millie (2007)

Wizard of Oz, The (2006)

Working (2004)

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (2006)

Richmond Hill Barn Theatre:

Almost, Maine (2009)

Angel Street (2008)

Another Part of the Forest (2005)

Any Famous Last Words? (2008)

Arcadia (2007)

Around the World in 80 Days (2009)

Arsenic & Old Lace (2007)

Bad Seed, The (2005)

Bad Year for Tomatoes, A (2006)

Best Christmas Pageant Ever, The (2007)

Busybody (2009)

California Suite (2007)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2006)

Catch Me If You Can (2008)

Christmas Belles (2010)

Cliffhanger (2006)

Dearly Beloved (2008)

Death Takes a Holiday (2007)

Desk Set (2004)

Fatal Attraction (2002)

Few Good Men, A (2007)

Funny Valentines (2010)

King o' the Moon (2007)

Last Mass at St. Casimir's, The (2009)

Laughing Stock (2009)

Light Up the Sky (2008)

Man with the Plastic Sandwich, The (2000)

Marvin's Room (2010)

Moonlight & Magnolias (2008)

Over the Tavern (2005)

Perfect Wedding (2006)

Picasso at the Lapin Agile (2002)

Proof (2006)

Rabbit Hole (2009)

Sunshine Boys, The (2006)

A Turn for the Nurse (2010)

Unexpected Guest, The (2002)

Wrong for Each Other (2010)

You Can't Take It with You (2005)

Riverbend Theatre Collective:

As Bees in Honey Drown (2008)

Elegies: A Song Cycle (2008)

Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (2009)

Hate Mail (2009)

Kimberly Akimbo (2008)

Last Five Years, The (2009)

Riverside Theatre:

As You Like It (2001)

Comedy of Errors, The (2002)

Death of a Salesman (2006)

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (2001)

Laramie Project, The (2003)

Macbeth (2003)

Memory of Water, The (2002)

Midsummer Night's Dream, A (2009)

Private Lives (2003)

Richard III (2009)

Romeo & Juliet (2002)

Spinning into Butter (2001)

Tempest, The (2006)

Twelfth Night (2006)

Walking the Wire (2003)

Wit (2001)

St. Ambrose University:

All My Sons (2007)

Charlotte's Web (2007)

Crème de Coco (2007)

Fortinbras (2007)

God's Favorite (2008)

Inherit the Wind (2008)

Lettice & Lovage (2009)

Narnia (2006)

Pippin (2008)

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (2005)

Threepenny Opera, The (2006)

Urinetown (2005)

Scott Community College:

Design for Living (2008)

Haunted Lives (2009)

Jake's Women (2010)

Lottery, The (2008)

Richard Blaine, the Merchant of Morocco: Or, What If Shakespeare Wrote Casablanca? (2008)

Summer People, The (2008)

Who Am I This Time? (2009)

Timber Lake Playhouse:

Ain't Misbehavin' (2006)

All Shook Up (2008)

Bat Boy the Musical (2007)

Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The (2007)

Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (2009)

Church Basement Ladies (2008)

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2009)

Dracula (2007)

Foreigner, The (2008)

Full Monty, The (2005)

Funny Money (2007)

Grease (2009)

Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (2005)

Irving Berlin's White Christmas (2007)

Late Nite Catechism (2005)

Lend Me a Tenor (2009)

Philadelphia Story, The (2006)

Producers, The (2008)

Smokey Joe's Cafe (2007)

Thoroughly Modern Millie (2006)

Tom, Dick, & Harry (2006)

Underpants, The (2005)

Urinetown (2006)

Wait Until Dark (2009)

Wedding Singer, The (2009)

West Side Story (2008)

Wizard of Oz, The (2006)

You Can't Take It with You (2008)

University of Iowa:

Life Is a Dream (2002)

Seascape (2000)

Additional Productions:

Bash (2009)

Boys Next Door, The (2009)

Broadway Bound (2005)

Guys & Dolls (2009)

Magic Flute, The (2004)

Rigoletto (2003)

1776 (2002)

Vagina Monologues, The (2003)