Project #1 Northwestern University

Sweeney Todd
Music and Lyrics by: Stephen Sondheim
Book by: Hugh Wheeler

"An exhilarating ride of music, song and spectacle, this Tony Award-winning musical by Hugh Wheeler and Stephen Sondheim is based on a 19th-century legend."
http://www.communication.northwestern.edu/tic/performances/barber.php

"John Doyle's production of the Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler masterwork is the baldest example yet of a musical revival that doesn't give a damn about its audience."
http://http//www.talkinbroadway.com/world/STodd.html


Indians
By: Arthur Kopit

"Camouflaged by ritualistic techniques once considered risk taking, "Indians" comes off as more diatribe than drama."
http://http//theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9D0CE4DD1E38F933A15753C1A967958260

"Indians is an experimental, absurdist piece that eschews conventional plotting and characterization. "
http://http//www.enotes.com/indians


The Illusion
By: Tony Kushner

"The comedy is elegant, full of depth..."Howard Kissel, Daily News"
http://http//www.broadwayplaypubl.com/Kushner.htm

"What a fascinating, totally theatrical excursion we're in for in this 17th Century fairytale-fable first spun by French classical dramatist Pierre Corneille."
http://http//www.broadwayplaypubl.com/Kushner.htm


"Marisol"
By: Jose Rivera

"José Rivera's drama “Marisol,” Oct. 26 to Nov. 4 at the Barber Theater"
http://http//www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2007/10/theatre.html

"In much of the publicity material generated by the Denver Center Theatre Company regarding this play, the term "magic realism" was used to describe the style of the play and the production."
http://http//muse.jhu.edu/journals/theatre_journal/v048/48.1pr_rivera.html


The Boys From Syracuse
Music by: Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by: Lorenz Hart

"Dromio, Dromio, wherefore art thou, Dromio? Well, thou art in the land of musical comedy, that's where!"
http://http//www.theatermania.com/new-york/reviews/12-2006/the-boys-from-syracuse_9681.html

"its Three Stooges-like slapstick for modern audiences."
http://http//www.theatermania.com/new-york/reviews/12-2006/the-boys-from-syracuse_9681.html


Thrush
By: Caridad Svich

"A love story and vaudeville of the far and near country."
http://http//www.salvagevanguard.org/thrush.php

"and one that makes this play with songs"
http://http//austinist.com/2006/10/17/austinist_theatre_review_thrush_a_play_with_songs.php


The Bacchae
By: Euripides

"is considered one of the greatest Greek tragedies ever written."
http://http//www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2007/10/theatre.html

"is an acient greek tragedy by Euripides"
http://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bacchae


On The Verge
By: Eric Overmyer's

"Overmyer's comedy follows three Victorian ladies as they travel forward in time and land in 1950s America."
http://http//www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2007/10/theatre.html

"These are, stalwartly, pre-feminist representatives of the stronger sex." (Women's Issues)
http://http//theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9B0DEED61E30F930A35750C0A961948260


Spunk
By: George C. Wolfe

"The play is an anthology of Zora Neale Hurston folk tales narrated and acted out by the characters and the Guitar Man and Blues Speak Woman who transform the tales into a mini-musical."
http://http://www.curtainup.com/spunk.html

''Spunk,'' in which three short stories have been adapted for the stage and folded into a bluesy musical framework, reveals how time has finally caught up with Hurston's view of the Afro-American experience"
http://http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9C0CEFDF1230F93AA25757C0A966958260


"Ghetto"
By: Joshua Sobol

"At the bare minimum, dramatic works about the Holocaust have an obligation to restore vivid immediacy to horrors that scoundrels and the passing of time would have the world forget."

http://http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=950DEFDB1F3AF932A35756C0A96F948260

"From the meticulous diary of a librarian, playwright Joshua Sobol combines fact and fantasy to tell the tale of a theater group formed in Vilna, Lithuania, during the Holocaust."

http://http://www.communication.northwestern.edu/tic/performances/ghetto.php