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AIN’T TOO PROUD: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE TEMPTATIONS (National Tour): Songs, fun, and nostalgia

Toby Zinman January 6, 2024 2 Comments

This is Motown, and this cast is up to the task: good voices, great moves.

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COMPANY (Forrest Theater): Gorgeously musical if lacking in Sondheim’s subtlety

Toby Zinman December 3, 2023 No Comments

Sondheim’s genius makes ambivalence gorgeously musical, but his ironic, subtle sophistication is in short supply in this production

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Music Reviews

Music of the Earth (Curtis Ensemble 20/21): A place in the natural world

Michael Fisher November 27, 2023 No Comments

Music’s relationship to the natural world is an unsteady one. On one hand, it seems contradictory to celebrate nature using artificial instruments that are, after…

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MADAME OVARY (Inis Nua): Theater or therapy?

Toby Zinman November 12, 2023 No Comments

Madame Ovary is a staged memoir about a young woman who survived cancer; it is the fourth female solo show opening just this week:

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[NYC] TRANSLATIONS (Irish Rep): Searching for clues

Toby Zinman November 10, 2023 No Comments

The danger with a Brian Friel play is charm. No stage Irishmen here at Irish Rep’s production, no comical drunkenness. Another danger, especially in a…

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THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM (Azuka): Impassioned and interesting sidestepping

Toby Zinman November 6, 2023 No Comments

In a world full of rooms which are full of elephants, a lot of sidestepping is required of us all. 

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CAMP SIEGFRIED (Theatre Exile): An unlikely love story

Kathryn Osenlund November 5, 2023 No Comments

Love happens, even in a setting dedicated to concentrated evil, as an American girl becomes a fierce Nazi uber-princess. 

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WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME (Arden): A witch’s cauldron of sometimes magic

Toby Zinman November 3, 2023 No Comments

Even the most hallowed document is no match for a teenage girl, as Heidi Schreck reveals in her play, What the Constitutions Means to Me.…

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[NYC] MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG (Hudson Theater)

Toby Zinman October 15, 2023 No Comments

This is vintage Sondheim, the unimaginable flop now on Broadway again, restored to its dazzling, heart-wrenching brilliance. Merrily We Roll Along has been called his most personal,…

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NO EXIT (Quintessence): A new translation of a hellishly absurd classic

Kathryn Osenlund October 13, 2023 No Comments

Quintessence Theater’s founding artistic director Alex Burns, has written a new translation from the original French

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[NYC] PURLIE VICTORIOUS (Music Box Theatre): A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch

Toby Zinman October 2, 2023 No Comments

Ossie Davis’s brilliant and hilarious play is part vaudeville, part sermon. And if preaching is theater, theater is preaching. And the lesson is that “faith…

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ASSASSINS (Arden): A celebration of psychopaths

Kathryn Osenlund October 1, 2023 No Comments

The wall of the F. Otto Haas Stage features pictures of targets and X’s for murdered presidents. Starting with John Wilkes Booth’s killing of Abraham…

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TARTUFFE (Lantern): Delightfully over-the-top

Kathryn Osenlund September 29, 2023 No Comments

Before he became a celebrated playwright, Jean-Baptiste Poquelan was a poor thing in a touring shoestring theater company. Although he had wanted to be a…

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Music Reviews

10 Days in a Madhouse (Opera Philly): This is not a time for quiet art

Michael Fisher September 24, 2023 No Comments

Director Joanna Settle wants you to know that 10 Days in a Madhouse is not just an opera. It is an “announcement … almost a…

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10 Dates with Mad Mary (Inis Nua): A real piece of work returns

Kathryn Osenlund September 7, 2023 No Comments

10 Dates with Mad Mary is playing upstairs at a favored watering hole, Fergie’s Pub. The show was so popular last year that it’s back!

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TWELFTH NIGHT (Wilma): Beach blanket Bard

Kathryn Osenlund June 12, 2023 1 Comment

There’s a lot of Twelfth Night going around in the Philadelphia area, all different. The Wilma conjures a fresh seaside setting. A dock moves forward.…

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TWELFTH NIGHT (Wilma): Foolery shines everywhere

Toby Zinman June 10, 2023 No Comments

“Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines every where.” Leaving Copernicus aside, the Fool’s wry remark is an apt description…

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TWELFTH NIGHT (Lantern): Some are born great

Kathryn Osenlund June 2, 2023 1 Comment

Shakespeare wrote Twelfth Night (1599-1600), one of his few fantasy plays, immediately before he penned his incomparable Hamlet (1600-1601).  As Artistic Director Charles McMahon describes…

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TITANIC (Fulton Theater): 60-second review

Joshua Herren May 30, 2023 No Comments

Featuring a large cast of fantastic singers, Fulton Theater’s production of Titanic is worth the drive to Lancaster. Telling the story of the infamous ocean…

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TWELFTH NIGHT (Lantern): Shall we set about some revels?

Toby Zinman May 29, 2023 No Comments

“Shall we set about some revels?” Yes!  The battle begins: Lantern Theater Company opened its excellent and enjoyable production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night; soon to…

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