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Stirring BLACK MONK Offered Up by Simpatico

Christopher Munden April 16, 2012 No Comments

“Forget all the laws of optics, which the legend does not recognize” —Anton Chekhov, The Black Monk Attempting to summarize the best modernist short stories…

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Romeo and Juliet (Lantern Theater Company): Do we need another R&J?

Kathryn Osenlund March 16, 2012 No Comments

You may ask, “Do we need yet another production of Romeo and Juliet?” The answer is yes we do. This is the Lantern. Next question? The…

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New City’s TERRORISM Presents a Sardonic Look at Modern Life

Christopher Munden March 8, 2012 No Comments

Passenger: It’s madness — what sort of an age do we live in? You don’t feel safe anywhere now, only at home… First Passenger: At…

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A PLAY, A PIE AND A PINT: Three Things We Can All Like

Christopher Munden March 7, 2012 No Comments

As a lover of theater, beer, and meat-filled pastries, I’ve been excited by the ads and positive buzz about this series from Tiny Dynamite for…

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Inis Nua Finds a Home with LITTLE GEM

Christopher Munden February 11, 2012 No Comments

Since 2004, Inis Nua Theatre Company has been entertaining Philadelphia audiences with provocative new Irish and British plays, staged at venues around the city. The…

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Fun for a Night, Hell for a Life: Luna’s Toxically Humorous BACHELORETTE

Christopher Munden January 30, 2012 No Comments

We’ve all met someone like her: the beautiful ex–prom queen with a cutting wit, overconfidence, and the forgivable tendency to say something hopelessly stupid and…

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Simpatico’s THE MEEP PROJECT by Ed Swidey. Illustration by Robert Berry.
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Simpatico’s THE MEEP PROJECT Brings Innovation to All-Ages Theater

Debra Miller January 18, 2012 2 Comments

THE MEEP PROJECT is a charming collaboration between playwright Ed Swidey and Simpatico Theatre Project. The world premiere development piece (which looked as fully developed as any original production I’ve seen!) employs new methods of storytelling, using movement and sound in place of language.

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Feliz Navidad! UN VIAJE: A CHRISTMAS JOURNEY at Kensington’s Walking Fish Theatre

Christopher Munden December 11, 2011 No Comments

UN VIAJE—A CHRISTMAS JOURNEY is running at Walking Fish Theatre in Kensington (Philadelphia), PA through December 30. (Photo courtesy of B. Someday Productions at Walking…

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A Versatile Acting Showcase in The Renegade Company’s THE AMISH PROJECT

Christopher Munden November 12, 2011 2 Comments

“What happens to a person when they live in a world where you can’t believe anything and the things you don’t want to believe are…

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InterAct’s THE HOW AND THE WHY is Well Written and Full of Ideas

Christopher Munden November 2, 2011 No Comments

“It’s yours, you created it, you gave birth to it. Don’t throw it away because you’re frightened of the implications.” Zelda (Janis Dardaris), an award-winning…

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Tracy Letts’s AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY…A Modern Great at the Arden

Christopher Munden October 8, 2011 No Comments

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY bookends with characters quoting T. S. Elliot’s “The Hollow Men.” “Life is very long,” begins Beverly Weston (David Howey), the alcoholic patriarch…

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A Voyage of Wonder: WHaLE OPTICS at the Live Arts

Christopher Munden September 6, 2011 No Comments

“Meditation and water are wedded forever” —Herman Melville, Moby Dick For last year’s Live Arts Festival, playwright Thaddeus Phillips took us on a trip to…

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Madhouse Theater Company’s PLAYING LENI is Spellbinding

Christopher Munden June 4, 2011 No Comments

More than any other historical figure and his followers, Hitler and the Nazis are shorthand for evil. Few people emerge from the close contact with…

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Old People and Theater (VIGIL at Lantern)

Christopher Munden May 30, 2011 No Comments

I began to attend Philadelphia theater in earnest about a decade ago, in my early mid-twenties. Consistently, my companion and I would be the youngest…

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Commedia, Terrorism, and Royalty: Inis Nua’s DUBLIN BY LAMPLIGHT

Christopher Munden May 4, 2011 No Comments

Cast members from Inis Nua Theatre’s DUBLIN BY LAMPLIGHT, playing in Philadelphia PA through May 14. The Royal Wedding and the death of international terrorist…

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Amaryllis Theatre Company Brings an Excelente LYDIA to the Adrienne

Christopher Munden April 19, 2011 No Comments

As Octavio Solis’s sublimely crafted play Lydia opens, the Mexican American Flores family is struggling to cope with the aftermath of a terrible car accident.…

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Two Jews Walk Into A War at InterAct

Mara Miller April 18, 2011 No Comments

At the Adrienne last Thursday night, the show started before the curtain went up: first there was the woman who got a verbal spanking from…

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Bleak Complexity: SPEAKING IN TONGUES at the Walnut’s Independence on 3

Christopher Munden April 5, 2011 No Comments

As SPEAKING IN TONGUES opens, two couples are about to cheat on their partners. Their dialog develops in unison; each pairing uttering the same lines.…

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One Woman, Many Voices: LET ME DOWN EASY at PTC

Christopher Munden March 29, 2011 No Comments

There are many voices in this nation’s health care debate, and Anna Deveare Smith could probably act out them all. In LET ME DOWN EASY,…

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BCKSEET Productions’ Losing the Shore

Christopher Munden March 23, 2011 No Comments

You never expect lighthearted comedy when going to a show by BCKSEET Productions. Argentine prison dramas, biting Edward Albee plays, and a Christmas show depicting Santa…

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