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Published by The Dance Journal, republished with kind permission. Merilyn Jackson has been writing regularly on dance for The Philadelphia Inquirer since 1996 and prior to that on dance, theater,…
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THE TEMPEST (Lantern): Sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not Lantern Theater’s production of THE TEMPEST, Shakespeare’s last play, is an enjoyable, modest show, full of comedy and romance and the gentl... 
SIZWE BANZI IS DEAD (McCarter): Being a man in apartheid SIZWE BANZI IS DEAD is genuine work of theater and an authentic, authoritative look at a shameful period of South African history. 
Poetry and Film: Alexandra Naughton combines literary and cinematic talents at a film premier Author and actor Alexandra Naughton combines her two loves April 29 with a party for the premier of a new movie, CTRL ALT DEL. 
JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK (IHT): A tragi-comic call for personal responsibility and peace in troubled times The second installment in playwright Sean O’Casey’s tragi-comic “Dublin Trilogy” traces the misfortunes of a struggling Irish family during ... 
A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME (BCP): Delicious flavors Sprinkled with furiously funny lines, steeped in talent, and infused with courageous choreography by Lorin Latorro, A TASTE OF THINGS TO COM... 
A classic work of comic literature, a joyous reworking by one of the best clowns in modern theater, an imaginative staging by a top-class Philadelphia company, and puppets: the stage is set for a night of great theatrical entertainment. In Scapin, Bill Irwin and Mark O’Donnell’s adaptation of the Molière comedy Les Fourberies deScapin (“Scapin’s Deceptions”), the Lantern Theater Company has hit comic gold. more…
