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I ♥ ALICE ♥ I (Curio): Feels like home
I ♥ ALICE ♥ I at Curio Theatre feels a lot like home to Josh Herren
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THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP (Curio): A comedy of labor
Curio’s The Mystery of Irma Vep requires virtuosity. Watching the production turns out to be more exhausting than fun.
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CRIMES OF THE HEART (Curio): Deliciously dark Southern fare
Beth Henley’s play remains relevant because its central characters feel so vibrantly human
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Theater in Sketch: THE MASSIVE TRAGEDY OF MADAME BOVARY (Curio)
The small cast at Curio Theatre play multiple roles in THE MASSIVE TRAGEDY OF MADAME BOVARY, a dramatization of Gustave Flaubert’s novel (read the Phindie…
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THE MASSIVE TRAGEDY OF MADAME BOVARY (Curio): Not your high school English class
A meta take on Flaubert’s classic.
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WAITING FOR GODOT (Curio): Highlighting the hilarity of Beckett’s classic
Curio’s designers have created a bubble of no time, no place, in which anything or nothing can happen.
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THE BIRDS (Curio): Terror takes flight
This adaptation by master Irish playwright Conor McPherson finds its horror in the claustrophobic relationships between its four characters
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THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN (Curio): A light surface has a dark pull
Something funny across the surface with dark issues riding just under it.
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DEATH OF A SALESMAN (Curio): Bringing Arthur Miller to life
Curio’s production underscores the delusion and the rawness of the lives of the Loman family.
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THE BALD SOPRANO (Curio): The absurd banality of everyday conversation
Ionesco offers comically entertaining insight on the careless and constant cacophony that passes for communication but is just platitudinous twaddle.
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THE HANDMAID’S TALE (Curio): One woman’s poignant and personal story
A timely retelling of Margaret Atwood’s classic dystopian novel.
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NOISES OFF (Curio): Utter nonsense, superbly structured and out of control
Michael Frayn’s enormously popular 1980s play is a zany farce about doors and sardines, relationships, and mistakes.
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OTHELLO (Curio): A different approach to an iconic tragedy
This original take on OTHELLO has more the feel of a farcical comedy than an ironic tragedy
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THE MATTER OF FRANK SCHAEFER (Curio): Go and do likewise
Curio personalizes a national news story: THE MATTER OF FRANK SCHAEFER, a Methodist priest defrocked for officiating his son’s same sex wedding.
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FLIM FLAM PHANTOM SHAM (Ombelico Mask Ensemble): Fringe Review 56
Ombelico’s latest al fresco offering, FLIM FLAM PHANTOM SHAM, is a delightful synthesis of traditional Commedia dell’Arte with current Philadelphia references, delivered in Italian and English—or Philly’s local version thereof!—which kept me in stitches throughout the entire all-ages show.
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OEDIPUSSY (Curio): Shenanigans, tomfoolery and ballyhoo reign
OEDIPUSSY isn’t something to analyze, it’s just something to enjoy— an antidote to life’s heavy stuff. Appealingly physical and comically overwrought, it’s tons of fun. The most amazing thing about this lunatic version is that the epic tragic story actually emerges through all the clowning, sight gags and laughter.
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DANCING AT LUGHNASA (Curio): Casting Disaster
The summer of 1998, I permanently moved out of my mother’s house. (My mother moved down to Nashville abruptly and without me.) So I traveled…
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Photo Essay: Kyle Cassidy captures DANCING AT LUGHNASA (Curio Theatre)
Photographer Kyle Cassidy is a Philadelphia treasure. He has been documenting American culture since the 1990s, photographing goths, punks, cutters, politicians, metalheads, dominatrices, scholars, and…
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ROMEO AND JULIET (Curio): A same-sex take on Shakespeare’s classic
The world’s most famous love story is given a new twist. The familiar characters are now the teenaged daughters of the feuding Montague and Capulet families, whose tragic romance is used to explore the true universality of Shakespeare’s themes.
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