See below for more reviews and other media attention for Mark Twain's
latest Broadway success.
See also the website for the play:
http://www.ishedead.com/reviews.php and
http://www.ishedead.com/news.php

<http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/12/10/theater/reviews/10dead.html?em&ex=11
97435600&en=79489ee4e7f174e7&ei=5087%0A>THEATER
REVIEW | 'IS HE DEAD?'
New York Times - United States
Norbert Leo Butz, far left, plays a painter in France in Mark Twain's
"Is He Dead?" Twain's script has been adapted by David Ives. ...
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%26ei%3D5087%250A>See
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http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/theatre/2007/12/17/071217crth_theatre_lahr?currentPage=2
[NEW YORKER]

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http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2007/12/tonys-2008-bway.html
[LA Times]

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<http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/stage/ny-etledew5494210dec10,0,5228109
.story>Review:
Mark Twain's 'Is He Dead?' at the Lyceum
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
It is safe to assume that "Is He Dead?," Twain's recently discovered
farce from 1898, will not be shocking the French. Whether the
lovingly produced trifle ...
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stage/ny-etledew5494210dec10,0,5228109.story>See
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<http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/arts/2007/12/10/2007-12-10_mark_tw
ain_farce_raised_from_the_dead.html>Twain
farce raised from the 'Dead
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
A farce that amateur acting troupes from Peoria to Pensacola will be
dying to do, "Is He Dead?" opened last night at the Lyceum Theatre
110 years after it ...
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ent/arts/2007/12/10/2007-12-10_mark_twain_farce_raised_from_the_dead.html>Se
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all stories on this topic

<http://arts.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1375771.php/Reviews_for_Is_
He_Dead>Reviews
for Is He Dead?
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
Is He Dead? was written 110 years ago by Twain, but was only just
discovered in 2002 by Shelley Fisher Fiskin, a Twain scholar. David
Ives has adapted the ...
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ws/article_1375771.php/Reviews_for_Is_He_Dead>See
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<http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117977401.html?categoryId=15>
Broadway plays battle for box office
Variety - Los Angeles,CA,USA
And for four shows working to gain traction with ticket buyers --
"The Farnsworth Invention," "August: Osage County," "The Seafarer"
and "Is He Dead? ...
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977401.html%3FcategoryId%3D15>See
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<http://www.cbc.ca/arts/theatre/story/2007/12/09/broadway-twain.html>
Forgotten Twain play debuts on Broadway
CBC News - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Is He Dead? was written in 1898 by Twain, whose real name is Samuel
Langhorne Clemens. It was unpublished and had never been produced. ...
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2007/12/09/broadway-twain.html>See
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<http://www.reuters.com/article/stageNews/idUSN0834183620071208>
Forgotten Mark Twain play makes Broadway debut
Reuters - USA
Of course, it might take more than a century, as evidenced by this
premiere production of "Is He Dead?" a rollicking farce written by a
talented ...
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ews/idUSN0834183620071208>See
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<http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/arts/20071208_Mark_Twains_comedy
_opens_tomorrow_in_N_Y_.html>Mark
Twain's comedy opens tomorrow in NY
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
A Stanford University professor named Shelley Fisher Fishkin found Is
He Dead?, Twain's never-staged melodramatic farce, in a file of the
writer's material ...
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nment/arts/20071208_Mark_Twains_comedy_opens_tomorrow_in_N_Y_.html>See
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<http://steveonbroadway.blogspot.com/2007/12/is-he-dead-not-even-close-among
-critics.html>Is
He Dead? Not Even Close Among Critics
By Steve On Broadway (SOB)(Steve On Broadway (SOB))
Cheering the play's "remarkably sprightly step" that left "gold dust"
in his eyes, Ben Brantley of The New York Times can never be accused
of having no sense of humor again: "Is He Dead?, which opened last
night at the Lyceum Theater, ...
<http://steveonbroadway.blogspot.com/> Steve On Broadway (SOB) -
http://steveonbroadway.blogspot.com/

<http://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=23618> Photo
Coverage: 'Is He Dead?' Opening Night
The world premiere production of Is He Dead?, a new comedy by master
American novelist and satirist Mark Twain, adapted by David Ives, and
directed by two-time Tony Award winner Michael Blakemore, officially
opened Sunday, December 9 at ...
<http://www.broadwayworld.com> BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content -
http://www.broadwayworld.com

<http://steroiduseinsports-hba.blogspot.com/2007/12/theater-review-is-he-dea
d-it-not-life.html>Theater
Review | 'Is He Dead?': It's Not Life on the Mississippi ...
By Duble Game(Duble Game)
Mark Twain's previously unproduced play, which is making its Broadway
debut, has a remarkably sprightly step.
<http://steroiduseinsports-hba.blogspot.com/> yahoo news -
http://steroiduseinsports-hba.blogspot.com/

<http://www.broadwaystars.com/news/2007/12/09-week/#007431> Is He Reviewed?
By Tim Dunleavy
Norbert Leo Butz talks about performing on Broadway in the Mark Twain
play "Is He Dead?" [ NYT ] Rumors of This Play Were Not Exaggerated
By JESSE GREEN. Unproduced in his own time, Mark Twain's "Is He Dead?
...
<http://www.broadwaystars.com/> 1. BroadwayStars News Report -
http://www.broadwaystars.com/

<http://www.nysun.com/article/67758> Scenes From a Funeral
By ERIC GRODE
Mark Twain's 1898 play, "Is He Dead?," makes its premiere on
Broadway, with its text streamlined by David Ives. Starring the
tireless Norbert Leo Butz, this unabashedly old-fashioned comedy is
in the resourceful hands of director ...
<http://www.nysun.com/section/8> New York Sun - Arts and Letters... -
http://www.nysun.com/section/8

<http://www.historywire.com/2007/12/out-of-the-moth.html> Out Of The
Mothballs: A New Play By Mark Twain Has "A Remarkably ...
By Steve
"'Is He Dead?,' a previously unproduced play by the long-dead Mark
Twain, has at last made its Broadway debut. And for something that's
basically been lying immobile for more than a century, gathering
dust...
<http://www.historywire.com/> Steve Goddard's History Wire -
http://www.historywire.com/

<http://www.artbistro.com/news/articles/1536-a-painters-demise-produces-prof
its>APainter's
Demise Produces Profits
By Associated Press
Done up in drag, the actor is the fireplug who jump-starts "Is He
Dead?" - a long-lost Mark Twain farce adapted by David Ives and
directed by Michael Blakemore with a sure ear for language and an
even surer eye for physical comedy. ...
<http://www.artbistro.com/> ArtBistro - http://www.artbistro.com/
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/12294056.html

<http://datanews-gh.blogspot.com/2007/12/rumors-of-this-play-were-not.html>
Rumors of This Play Were Not Exaggerated
By Alian(Alian)
Unproduced in his own time, Mark Twain's "Is He Dead?" has finally
made it to Broadway.
<http://datanews-gh.blogspot.com/> DATA news -
http://datanews-gh.blogspot.com/

<http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071210/ENTERTAINMENT/7121
00314/-1/RSS01>New
play by Twain just plain hilarious
It can't have been better than this one, a Broadway boulevard comedy
from an era when the boulevards were truly grand. Written by Twain,
with a modern assist by David Ives, "Is He Dead?" stars Tony winner
Norbert Leo Butz, who channels ...
<http://www.LoHud.com> Lohud.com: Latest News - http://www.LoHud.com

<http://katyregnier.blogspot.com/2007/12/what-did-i-tell-you.html>
What did I tell you?
By katy(katy)
"Is He Dead?," a previously unproduced play by the long-dead Mark
Twain, has at last made its Broadway debut. And for something that's
basically been lying immobile for more than a century, gathering dust
in archives, ...
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http://katyregnier.blogspot.com/

<http://steveonbroadway.blogspot.com/2007/12/is-he-dead-sob-review_10.html>
Is He Dead? (The SOB Review)
By Steve On Broadway (SOB)(Steve On Broadway (SOB))
It seems apropos that less than one year after first letting the
world know in 1897 that "The report of my death was an exaggeration,"
Twain would write a play Is He Dead? that practically went to the
grave with him in 1910. ...
<http://steveonbroadway.blogspot.com/> Steve On Broadway (SOB) -
http://steveonbroadway.blogspot.com/

<http://community.livejournal.com/norbertleobutz/80150.html> Is He
Dead opened today! (Or yesterday, depending on where you are ...
By Toaster.(The Norbert Leo Butz Community)
So, the NY Times published their review, and it seems they loved it!
I'm prediciting here and now that Norbert will be nominated for a
Tony for this role. Anyway, here's the review - make sure to watch
the slideshow: it's narrated by ...
<http://community.livejournal.com/norbertleobutz/> The Norbert Leo
Butz Community - http://community.livejournal.com/norbertleobutz/

<http://latestonbroadway.blogspot.com/2007/12/is-he-dead-reviews.html>
IS HE DEAD? - REVIEWS
By Latest on Broadway(Latest on Broadway)
<http://latestonbroadway.blogspot.com/> Latest on Broadway (and off)
- http://latestonbroadway.blogspot.com/

<http://nastynews-vdy.blogspot.com/2007/12/rumors-of-this-play-were-not.html
>
Rumors of This Play Were Not Exaggerated
By John Misl(John Misl)
Unproduced in his own time, Mark Twain's "Is He Dead?" has finally
made it to Broadway.
<http://nastynews-vdy.blogspot.com/> birmingham news -
http://nastynews-vdy.blogspot.com/

<http://bobandwill.livejournal.com/431362.html> O to the MG.
By bobandwill(bobandwill)
In other news, I saw the opening of Is He Dead? on Broadway this
afternoon. I read online that you could get student tickets for $25.
My backup plan was TKTS, which had seats for 50% (so, probably
$30-50.) I also saw that last week's ...
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http://bobandwill.livejournal.com/

<http://www.broadwayreporter.com/2007/12/is-he-dead-opens-ritz-closes-on.htm
l>
Is He Dead? Opens, The Ritz Closes on Broadway
By theatergoer(admin)
Meanwhile, over at the Lyceum Theatre, the Mark Twain play Is He
Dead? (adapted by David Ives) enjoyed its Broadway opening. This is
the first production of the Twain comedy, which was only recently
re-discovered, and it stars Broadway ...
<http://www.broadwayreporter.com/> The Broadway Reporter -
http://www.broadwayreporter.com/

<http://www.kentucky.com/476/story/254245.html> A painter's demise
produces profits
Done up in drag, the actor is the fireplug who jump-starts "Is He
Dead?" - a long-lost Mark Twain farce adapted by David Ives and
directed by Michael Blakemore with a sure ear for language and an
even surer eye for physical comedy. ...
<http://www.kentucky.com/109/index.xml> Kentucky.com: Entertainment -
http://www.kentucky.com/109/index.xml

<http://clydefitch.blogspot.com/2007/12/new-reviews-is-he-dead.html>
New Reviews: Is He Dead?
By Leonard Jacobs(Leonard Jacobs)
My review of Is He Dead? is up at Back Stage.com.
<http://clydefitch.blogspot.com/> The Clyde Fitch Report -
http://clydefitch.blogspot.com/

<http://cmuptm.blogspot.com/2007/12/is-he-dead.html> Is He Dead?
By David(David)
New York Times: "SHELLEY FISHER FISHKIN opened a file drawer at the
University of California's Bancroft Library in Berkeley, where the
largest collection of Mark Twain's papers is archived. She was
researching a project on racial themes ...
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<http://barkbarkwoofwoof.blogspot.com/2007/12/sunday-reading_09.html>
Sunday Reading
By Mustang Bobby(Mustang Bobby)
The materials were filed chronologically, so it took a while before
she got to a late comedy called "Is He Dead?" It was not exactly a
discovery; the title had turned up in the occasional academic note or
reference. ...
<http://barkbarkwoofwoof.blogspot.com/> Bark Bark Woof Woof -
http://barkbarkwoofwoof.blogspot.com/

<http://newyorklawschool.typepad.com/leonardlink/2007/12/mark-twains-dav.htm
l>
Mark Twain's (David Ives's) "Is He Dead?"
By ALeonard
... University scholar Shelley Fisher Fishkin was browsing through
the Mark Twain Papers at UC-Berkeley's Bancroft Library, checking out
the unpublished theatrical scripts by Mark Twain, and came across the
1898 play "Is He Dead? ...
<http://newyorklawschool.typepad.com/leonardlink/> Leonard Link -
http://newyorklawschool.typepad.com/leonardlink/

<http://jazzbirdshea.blogspot.com/2007/12/show-it.html> Show It
By jazz bird(jazz bird)
Is He Dead? -- play, Broadway: Written by Mark Twain, discovered
after his death and making its Broadway debut. The show and plot are
your typical farce. The jokes are stale and the story predictable.
Thanks to Norbert Leo Butz in the ...
<http://jazzbirdshea.blogspot.com/> Jazzbird Takes Flight -
http://jazzbirdshea.blogspot.com/

<http://corinescorner.com/blog2/2007/12/do-you-want-to-have-fun.htm>
Do You Want To Have Fun?
By Corine(Corine)
I saw "IS HE DEAD" tonight. If you can afford one show the entire
season, I would tell you to buy this one. I have never laughed harder
at a play. (Vampire Lesbians of Sodom was a close tie) but this show
blew me away. Fun. Laughs. ...
<http://corinescorner.com/blog2/blog2.htm> Corine's Corner -
http://corinescorner.com/blog2/blog2.htm

<http://isachin.com/2007/12/is-he-dead.html> Sachin Agarwal: Is He Dead?
I went to see the play "Is He Dead?" which is a Mark Twain play that
was just discovered by Stanford professor Shelley Fishkin. It was
GREAT. Hilarious. ...

<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1526640> NPR :
Rediscovering Mark Twain, the Playwright
Mark Twain's 'Is He Dead?' Mark Twain's newly unearthed play 'Is He
Dead? ... The never-before-published, still-never-produced play Is He
Dead? hit shelves ...

<http://www.litkicks.com/IsHeDeadaNewPlaybyMarkTwain/> Literary Kicks
: <i>Is He Dead?</i>, a New Play by Mark Twain
Fishkin published a book version of the play that caught the
attention of a top Broadway team headed by Michael Blakemore, and Is
He Dead? is finally ...

<http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2007/december5/twain-120507.html>
'One more entertaining feast': Twain's long-lost play debuts on ...
The debut of Is He Dead? at New York City's Lyceum Theater is not a
triumph for Twain alone, however. It marks a personal victory for
Shelley Fisher Fishkin ...

<http://www.timeout.com/newyork/event/theater/356675/is-he-dead> Time
Out New York: Is He Dead? at Lyceum Theatre
Event listing for Is He Dead? on November 27, 2007 at Lyceum Theatre.
Find theater and live performances in and around NYC including event
listings, ...

<http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117935606.html?categoryid=1265> Is
He Dead? Review - Legit Reviews-Broadway, Entertainment - Variety
He cemented an enduring reputation as a novelist, short story writer,
humorist and essayist, but Mark Twain never cracked the challenge of
becoming a ...

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