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A perfect wedding (The Daily Review) - THE SUN was shining brightly as Stephanie Stark and Brent Stuckert said their wedding vows in the beautiful Carmel Mission Basilica.

Wedding Marks Milestone Event For Shanghai Jewish Community (The Morning News) - SHANGHAI, China - A glass was smashed, and a cheer went up.

PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW: Coming Soon to a Theatre Near You (Playbill via Yahoo! News) - Put together a restaurant designer, a magazine editor and two lapsed rock musicians and what do you get? A Broadway musical about Harry Houdini, apparently.

Popping the (Prom) Question (Washington Post) - Before Tim Shaeffer dared ask Corinne Welker to the prom, he first inquired delicately as to how she was likely to respond. She told him, "It kind of depends on how you ask me."

Review: 'A Catered Affair' is musical-theater minimalism (AP via Yahoo! News) - Funny thing about silences on stage. They can enhance what follows. And there are plenty of quiet, affecting moments in "A Catered Affair," a most unusual little musical that has the courage of its low-key, yet heartfelt convictions.

Weekend Notes (The Morning News) - April 18-24 On Stage Today-Saturday SPRINGDALE - Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Beth Henley brings "Impossible Marriage," a modern comedy set in the lush garden of a Savannah mansion, to the Arts Center of the Ozarks for the final weekend. Pandora Kingsley has planned the perfect wedding, but everyone is against it. And when the wedding guests have been sprung from the pen of Henley, the ...

Theater Review: Sparkle and spandex -- it's 'Mamma Mia!' (The Sacramento Bee) - Many a theatrical producer envies the success of "Mamma Mia!" The hit musical phenomenon sweetly and consistently delivers its smartly conceived confectionery goods, based on the resilient pop songs of Swedish hitmakers ABBA. "Mamma Mia!" has productions playing around the world; this is its third engagement in Sacramento.

Wary of lawsuits, Ewing rethinks alcohol policy %%deck%%May ban booze at township-owned facilities %%edeck%% ... (The Trenton Times) - EWING -- What's a wedding reception without a champagne toast? How about a 30th birthday bash minus a few cold beers? Hosts throwing parties at township-owned facilities may soon find out.

DVD Review: Tell Me You Love Me - The Complete First Season (Blogcritics.org) - This HBO show takes an honest look at relationships. Before Tell Me You Love Me debuted on HBO in September of 2008, the show got a lot of press for the amount of explicit sex it contained. While that is indeed true, Tell Me You Love Me is geared at an adult audience; to call it simply a show about sex misses the entire point. Arriving on the heels of mega-hits like The Sopranos and Sex and the ...

Theater review: "A Catered Affair" (The Record) - In "A Catered Affair," Harvey Fierstein plays an Irishman. I rest my case. "A Catered Affair," which opened Thursday night at the Walter Kerr Theatre (and surely has the esteemed critic for whom the theater is named revolving in his grave), gets just about everything wrong.