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Author: Lisa Panzer

Lisa Panzer has worked for many years in theater not only as an actor, but as a director, dramaturg, technical director, lighting designer, stage crew, and roustabout. A few of her favorite past theatrical roles include: Liz Imbrie in Philadelphia Story, Maria in Lend Me a Tenor, Mrs. Tarpey in Spreading the News, Mollie Ralston in Mousetrap, Trinculo in The Tempest, Bernice Roth in Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 and Felicia Dantine in I Hate Hamlet. In addition to theatrical endeavors, Mz. Panzer has also worked as a background performer in television’s Cold Case, Invincible, The Happening, several television commercials, and has played various roles in independent films including Project 21 productions and other commercial acting venues. (See http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3355274/ for additonal information).
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MACHINAL (EgoPo): Welcome to the machine

Lisa Panzer April 26, 2016 No Comments

A dank, metallic, appropriately oppressive feel imbues this production of Sophie Treadwell’s 90-year-old play.

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1776 THE MUSICAL (Media): Rollicking romp through history

Lisa Panzer April 19, 2016 No Comments

A rocking, irreverent look at the birth of our nation wrought with lively, believable characters.

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SIDE MAN (PCS): Outstanding and all that jazz…

Lisa Panzer April 14, 2016 No Comments

Warren Leight’s retrospective play brings to light dusky, smoked filled jazz clubs, youthful dreams, family nightmares, camaraderie and the all consuming love of music.

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SAINT JOAN (Quintessence): The Maid’s new clothes

Lisa Panzer March 23, 2016 No Comments

George Bernard Shaw’s play is presented in rich tonalities of color, light, positioning, and sound. It is wide awake.

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JUAN-WINFIELD ESCUTIA-SCOTT, OR THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR, A BUTCHER PLAY (Chris Davis): 60-second review

Lisa Panzer February 25, 2016 No Comments

With, “It was Mexico, but not your grandfather’s Mexico…” Chris Davis sets the tone for an enjoyably interactive, imaginative tour back in time to the Mexican-American War.

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A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME (BCP): Delicious flavors

Lisa Panzer February 8, 2016 1 Comment

Sprinkled with furiously funny lines, steeped in talent, and infused with courageous choreography by Lorin Latorro, A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME is boldly brilliant theatrical buffet with something for everyone!

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OR (Hedgerow): love, lust, loyalties and loads of laughter!

Lisa Panzer February 3, 2016 No Comments

Set in London, 1660, Liz Duffy Adams’s rollicking historical romp explores the remarkable life of Aphra Behn, a spy, poet, and England’s first professional female playwright.

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THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY (Hedgerow): Resistance (to fun) is Useless

Lisa Panzer January 11, 2016 No Comments

A staged reading of the Douglas Adams classic.

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HANSEL AND GRETEL (Quintessence): Cool contemporary spin on Grimm

Lisa Panzer December 16, 2015 No Comments

You don’t have to be ten years old to thoroughly enjoy this production, you just have to retrace the breadcrumbs and remember how to pretend again.

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THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK CHRISTMAS MUSICAL (Montgomery Theater): Treasure amid the chintz

Lisa Panzer November 24, 2015 No Comments

The clock is ticking down to tinsel time at Armadillo Acres in Starke, Florida, where the residents intend to blind the heavens with bargain store…

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DRACULA (Hedgerow): Raising the stakes

Lisa Panzer October 27, 2015 No Comments

This not your usual resurrection of the Dracula story of seducing young women to join him in the realm of the undead.

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THE MANDRAKE (Quintessence): A Machiavellian sex satire

Lisa Panzer October 23, 2015 No Comments

What could be so funny in a play written nearly 500 years ago? There is something for everyone to either laugh or balk at in this bawdy production of a play by Machiavelli.

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CHARLIE VICTOR ROMEO (South Camden): Turbulence ahead

Lisa Panzer October 20, 2015 No Comments

You are advised, before the show takes off, to secure your seatbelt. DO IT!

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MAURITIUS (Stagecrafters): Stamp of suspense

Lisa Panzer September 28, 2015 No Comments

Theresa Rebeck’s thriller with a philatelical twist leaves a stamp of suspense on an appreciative audience.

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SECOND SKULL (Sothis Music-Theater Ensemble): 2015 Fringe review 69

Lisa Panzer September 23, 2015 No Comments

Sothis devises experimental theater to call attention to collective and conscious freedom.

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JUMP THE MOON (Philadelphia Opera Collective): 2015 Fringe review 57.2

Lisa Panzer September 18, 2015 No Comments

o subtitles necessary to hear praises sung for women astronomers of the late 19th century.

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THE BORDER (Jo Strømgren Kompani): 2015 Fringe review 32.1

Lisa Panzer September 11, 2015 No Comments

This scintillating exploration of the territorial tensions between a man and a woman takes us beyond the cubicle walls to the dynamic boundaries of human relations.

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THE DOLLS OF NEW ALBION: A STEAMPUNK OPERA (Manayunk Theatre Company): 2015 Fringe review 14

Lisa Panzer September 6, 2015 No Comments

Steampunk opera THE DOLLS OF NEW ALBION follows four generations of a family afflicted by an anti-necrotic deed.

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TILL BIRNAM WOOD… (John Schultz): 2015 Fringe review 3

Lisa Panzer September 4, 2015 No Comments

Shakespeare blindfolded: In the darkness, Shakespeare is illuminated.

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THE HOUR OF ALL THINGS (Missing Bolts/PWTF): Reflections on political arousal

Lisa Panzer August 1, 2015 No Comments

“What can I do within this world?” ~ Nic, THE HOUR OF ALL THINGS by Caridad Svich In a riveting, nearly odic, 45 minute solo…

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