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Category: 60-Second Review

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EVERYTHING IS WONDERFUL (PTC): 60-second review

Joshua Herren February 27, 2020 1 Comment

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

Toby Zinman February 23, 2020 No Comments

They sure don’t write them like this anymore. 

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A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE (Walnut Street): 60-second review

Joshua Herren January 28, 2020 No Comments

A play of little importance

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EUREKA DAY (InterAct): 60-second review

Rudolf Schreiber November 6, 2019 No Comments

Another, brief take on InterAct Theatre’s latest production

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A SMALL FIRE (PTC): 60-second review

Joshua Herren October 30, 2019 No Comments

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

Joshua Herren October 14, 2019 No Comments

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

Toby Zinman October 3, 2019 1 Comment

Where are Oscar and Felix when you really need them?

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THE RESISTABLE RISE OF ARTURO UI (Lantern): 60-second review

Rudolf Schreiber September 25, 2019 No Comments

A quick, masterful production that would make Brecht proud.

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BOX CLEVER (Inis Nua): 60-second review

Rudolf Schreiber February 9, 2019 1 Comment

With BOX CLEVER, Inis Nua has done the impossible: make bureaucracy theatrical.

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CROWNS (McCarter): 60-second review

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper March 21, 2018 No Comments

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

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper March 21, 2018 No Comments

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

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper February 21, 2018 No Comments

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

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper February 14, 2018 No Comments

What? Him again? Yes and no.

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TOUCHTONES (Arden): 60-second review

Cameron Kelsall October 26, 2017 No Comments

This treacly throwback neither titillates nor liberates.

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WHICH REMINDS ME (Act II): 60-second review

Lauren Hartranft September 6, 2017 No Comments

Tony Braithwaite did it again with another original show

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THE NERD (Bucks County Playhouse): 60-second review

Cameron Kelsall June 29, 2017 No Comments

Larry Shue’s 1979 farce has seen better days.

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WEST SIDE STORY (Media Theatre): 60-second review

Cameron Kelsall May 23, 2017 No Comments

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

Cameron Kelsall April 23, 2017 No Comments

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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A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALES (Walnut Street): 60-second review

Julie Zeglen December 4, 2016 No Comments

Written by Welshman Dylan Thomas in the 1950s, A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALES is every nostalgic Christmas trope with song thrown in, and it’s totally delightful.

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RUMORS (Allens Lane Theater): 60-second review

Julia Taus December 4, 2016 1 Comment

Noel Hanley’s masterful treatment of Neil Simon’s RUMORS exemplifies a farce done right.

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