Pulitzer winners aren’t always great theatrical works, but they are often very revealing about the times in which they won
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Category: 60-Second Review
BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL (National Tour): 60-second review
If you missed Beautiful: The Carole King Musical during its five year run on Broadway or in its previous two Philadelphia tour appearances…chances are you…
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EVERYTHING IS WONDERFUL (PTC): 60-second review
Philadelphia Theatre Company’s production of Chelsea Marcantel’s emotional and thought-provoking Everything is Wonderful is gorgeous
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HELLO DOLLY! (touring): 60-second review
They sure don’t write them like this anymore.
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A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE (Walnut Street): 60-second review
A play of little importance
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EUREKA DAY (InterAct): 60-second review
Another, brief take on InterAct Theatre’s latest production
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A SMALL FIRE (PTC): 60-second review
Joanie Schultz’s direction centers on masterful and delicate performances by Bebe Neuwirth and John Dossett.
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FALSETTOS (11th Hour Theatre Company): 60-second review
A challenging show, with musically complicated, character-driven songs, that demands performers tell almost the entire story through song.
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THE ROOMMATE (1812 Productions): 60-second review
Where are Oscar and Felix when you really need them?
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THE RESISTABLE RISE OF ARTURO UI (Lantern): 60-second review
A quick, masterful production that would make Brecht proud.
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BOX CLEVER (Inis Nua): 60-second review
With BOX CLEVER, Inis Nua has done the impossible: make bureaucracy theatrical.
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CROWNS (McCarter): 60-second review
Regina Taylor’s CROWNS is an entertaining and telling musical about traditions among African-American women
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ALWAYS…PATSY CLINE (Media Theatre): 60-second review
Republished by kind permission from Neals Paper. Vocally, Jenny Lee Stern channels Patsy Cline. The clean, heartfelt sounds register. Physically, I kept seeing Judy Garland and…
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AN EVENING WITH GROUCHO (Bucks County Playhouse): 60-second review
Frank Ferrante can turn into his boyhood and current idol, Groucho Marx, on a dime.
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HEISENBERG (Delaware Theatre Co.): 60-second review
What? Him again? Yes and no.
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TOUCHTONES (Arden): 60-second review
This treacly throwback neither titillates nor liberates.
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WHICH REMINDS ME (Act II): 60-second review
Tony Braithwaite did it again with another original show
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THE NERD (Bucks County Playhouse): 60-second review
Larry Shue’s 1979 farce has seen better days.
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WEST SIDE STORY (Media Theatre): 60-second review
2018 is Leonard Bernstein’s centenary, and theaters around the country are programming his greatest works in his honor. Delaware County’s Media Theatre has taken the…
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THE PRISONER OF ZENDA (Hedgerow Theatre): 60-second review
A sense of familiarity permeates THE PRISONER OF ZENDA, Matt Tallman’s adaptation of Anthony Hope’s novel of intrigue, adventure, and mistaken identity
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