Greg Carte News

On the chance that you only read the first few sentences of my review of "Ramayana", currently playing at ACT, let me just say this right at the start. Go see this show! Hire the babysitter, arrive early (to catch the awesome Indian bazaar in the lobby), and prepare yourself for one of the most glorious and magical evenings I've had in the theater for quite awhile as ACT Theatre presents an exquisite and epic tale that mesmerizes from beginning to end.

American singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles recently appeared as a celebrity speller in "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" at the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse in Auburn, N.Y. This production is part of the inaugural season of the Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival. Check out the picture below of Bareilles with the cast of "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee."

The Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival presents SPELLING BEE at the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, now playing through September 29. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production below.

OK, at times it was a little long winded; too many songs and a little over reaching in getting its message across. But beyond that Strawberry Theatre Workshop's production of "This Land - Woody Guthrie" manages to transcend the music and the message and land itself into a realm of charming and simple grace.

Dario Fo's 1970 play, "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" with it's anti-establishment rhetoric certainly has connections to items in the news today what with the occupy movement and people's disillusionment with the government. But the problem that the current production of the play from Strawberry Theatre Workshop has is that they don't trust the audience to make those connections and instead feel the need to jam them into the script and beat us over the head with them. And while the show is funny and has some amazing performances it also at times comes across as self indulgent and lacking commitment.

Cornish Theater and Performance Production departments, present The Mystery of Edwin Drood at Intiman Playhouse. Join the denizens of London's Music Hall Royale, as they perform Charles Dickens' unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. The audience is invited to solve the mystery themselves by choosing one of several ingenious resolutions. The only Broadway show in which the audience decides the ending, Drood won five Tony awards in 1986, including Best Score, Best Book and Best Musical.

Cornish Theater and Performance Production departments, present The Mystery of Edwin Drood at Intiman Playhouse. Join the denizens of London's Music Hall Royale, as they perform Charles Dickens' unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. The audience is invited to solve the mystery themselves by choosing one of several ingenious resolutions. The only Broadway show in which the audience decides the ending, Drood won five Tony awards in 1986, including Best Score, Best Book and Best Musical.

14/48: The World's Quickest Theater Festival returns to ACT for a third year, January 7-8 and 14-15, 2011.

14/48: The World's Quickest Theater Festival returns to ACT for a third year, January 7-8 and 14-15, 2011.

14/48: The World's Quickest Theater Festival returns to ACT for a third year, January 7-8 and 14-15, 2011.