A Weekend of Christmas Plays
Amazingly, there is just one weekend left until Christmas, but that’s still plenty of time to get your fill of holiday theater. Here is the pick of this weekend’s festive…
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THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR (IRC): Corruption! A production that forefronts Gogol’s surprising, desperate, hypnotizing dialogue. Illustration by Mike Jackson. 
The two most-produced plays in America come to Philadelphia A Doll's House Part 2 and Sweat top the 10 most-produced plays of 2018/19 
LONG TROUBLE (Svaha Theatre Collective): 2018 Fringe review There’s a lovely simplicity in Elise D’Avella’s staging of the tragic story. 
IRVING BERLIN’S HOLIDAY INN (Walnut Street Theatre): Longing for a time that never was IRVING BERLIN’S HOLIDAY INN takes us back to a kinder, gentler time when people could burst into song for no reason whatsoever. 
TRUE WEST (Subscension): 2018 Fringe review This little company has heft and promise. The Fringe has given them the opportunity to launch and they’ve certainly taken advantage of it.
From the archives…
THE GAMBLING ROOM (Hella Fresh Theater): An ambitious conundrum
Hella Fresh is staging THE GAMBLING ROOM at Papermill Theater in Kensington. One of several little companies working in small neighborhood venues, Hella Fresh is contributing to the flowering of the arts in Philadelphia. Playwright John Rosenberg has devised a clever entrée into the story set in 1963 in Saigon, as Sherman, a USIA attaché, greets Jack, a bit of a loose canon who, it turns out, plans to represent his father’s views in a speech to South Vietnam’s President Ngo Dinh Diem. more…
