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Category: Reviews
MARY ROSE (Philadelphia Artists’ Collective): 2018 Fringe review
However crammed your Fringe calendar may be, don’t miss this one.
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FIGMAGO (Meg Sagilman Studio): 2018 Fringe review
FIGMAGO is an escape off of the beaten path, an imaginative walking tour that begins to reveal unknown peculiarities about six muses that inspire muralist Meg…
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UNHINGED (Matter Movement Group): 2018 Fringe review
Gather yourself for an illuminating walk along a dim, roughly hewn path into untamed territory where sounds and other sensory elements gather in corners to…
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LAY ME DOWN SOFTLY (Irish Heritage Theatre): 2018 Fringe review
A version of this review was also published on Foley Got Comped. Irish Heritage Theatre is purely a labor of love. All of the company…
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VOLTA (Cirque du Soleil): A review in word and images
VOLTA is a performance with both visual play and psychological depth.
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SUPPORT THE GIRLS (dir. Andrew Bujalski): Film review
A common refrain in the world of workplace woes goes like this: “People don’t quit jobs. They quit managers.” This is undoubtedly true for the…
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SKATE KITCHEN (dir. Crystal Moselle): Film review
While watching Skate Kitchen, I found myself entertained, engaged, and delighted, but it wasn’t until it ended – until I realized that rolling credits meant…
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Mechanical Theater): Spiriting Shakespeare at Laurel Hill
Double dealing, doubling of characters, double entendre and double dating, of a sort, are doubly fun to watch.
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A Dilettante at Large reviews two new shows at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Toby Zinman considers “Rachel Rose: Wil-o-Wisp/The Future Fields Commission” and “Biting Wit and Brazen Folly: British Satirical Prints, 1780s–1830s”
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CAMELOT (Act II Playhouse): 60-second review
CAMELOT is the example of a group of talent working together to create an amazing experience for the audience.
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FUN HOME (Arden Theatre): LOL misery
The Bechdel family has a funeral home (dubbed Fun Home by the kids) and also a not-fun family home.
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TRANSCENDENCE TO TRANSPARENCY (Les Canards Chantants): Music review
Les Canards Chantants (“the singing ducks”), a renaissance polyphony voice ensemble, was born in England but is now based in Philadelphia.
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PETER PAN (School of Pennsylvania Ballet): Forever’s children
The School of Pennsylvania Ballet presented its 2018 annual performance at the Prince Theater on May 19 and 20.
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TOSCA (Philadelphia Orchestra): Music as a cultural mission
Yannick Nevet-Seguin conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra in a semi-staged performance of Puccini’s TOSCA
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JEWELS (PA Ballet): A dazzling season finale
Pennsylvania Ballet closed its 2017-2018 season with George Balanchine’s masterpiece, JEWELS
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MOMIX (NextMove Dance): Awakening your senses
What was on the stage was recreation of what exists in the universe: organisms; minerals; plants; animals that breath, live, and recreate.
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MEASURE OF A MAN (dir. Jim Loach): Film review
Even though the film is rather plain, the central characterization makes this breezy beach-read of a movie a thorough joy.
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I HATE HAMLET: (Allens Lane): Theater on theater
Allens Lane Theater company, directed by Mariangela Saavedra offers an evening of community fun with I HATE HAMLET, a lighthearted comedy about theater’s favorite topic:…
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A Dilettante at Large: THE RESTAURANT SCHOOL AT WALNUT HILL COLLEGE
All this dilettanting around town can make a critic hungry
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