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FOX ON THE FAIRWAY (Act II): Camaraderie of a club

Lauren Hartranft November 6, 2015 No Comments

No golf interest? No problem. This show has tongue-in-cheek humor, love, competition, and the danger of the unexpected.

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Dance Reviews

PARTITA 2 (Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker/FringeArts):

Brendan Tetsuo November 4, 2015 No Comments

Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker and Boris Charmatz create a powerful structure, physically mapping time and space.

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Dance Reviews

TABLAO PHILLY (Pasión y Arte): Andalusia in Philadelphia

Kat Richter for The Dance Journal November 4, 2015 No Comments

Flamenco tablaos, which gained popularity in the 18th and 19th centuries, can be compared to today’s jazz clubs or poetry cafes.

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Reviews Theater

THE HANDMAID’S TALE (Curio): One woman’s poignant and personal story

Scott Wiser November 1, 2015 No Comments

A timely retelling of Margaret Atwood’s classic dystopian novel.

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Music Reviews Theater

CHOPIN WITHOUT PIANO (CENTRALA / Fringearts): A story of a revolutionary musician

Eri Yoneda October 31, 2015 1 Comment

A polish director and a polish actor project a new image of the composer by playing his two piano concertos with an orchestra and an actor playing the piano part.

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Reviews Theater

ALL IN THE TIMING (IRC): Six fast and funny existentialist shorts

Debra Miller October 30, 2015 No Comments

A collection of six short one-act comedies address the existentialist dilemma and pose the ubiquitous question, “What if?”

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Reviews Theater

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS (Speakeasy 932): A triumph of the theatrical imagination

Nicholas Ryan October 27, 2015 No Comments

Invited into a residence on Juniper Street, we are told to explore whichever way we like. We find 7 dynamically different tales from 5 playwrights.

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Reviews Theater

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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Reviews Theater

LA RONDE (Brenna Geffers): Moving around and switching around Schnitzler

Debra Miller October 26, 2015 No Comments

A new site-specific re-envisioning of Schnitzler’s 19th-century play brings post-modern import to his now-historic examination of socio-sexual mores.

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Reviews Theater

THE MADNESS OF POE (Mechanical): A spellbinding production for the Halloween season

Debra Miller October 25, 2015 No Comments

An original and inventive adaptation of Poe interweaves stories by the Master of the Macabre within the period rooms of Historic Strawberry Mansion.

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Dance Reviews

SPEED & PRECISION: (PA Ballet): Color and character at the start of a new chapter

Eri Yoneda October 24, 2015 No Comments

In his second season as the artistic director of the Pennsylvania Ballet, Angel Corella is hand-picking the entire program for the first time.

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Reviews Theater

RIZZO (Theatre Exile): A romp through the Rizzo years

Kathryn Osenlund October 24, 2015 1 Comment

Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear when Frank Rizzo strode the city like he owned it.

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Reviews Theater

JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK (IHT): A tragi-comic call for personal responsibility and peace in troubled times

Debra Miller October 23, 2015 No Comments

The second installment in playwright Sean O’Casey’s tragi-comic “Dublin Trilogy” traces the misfortunes of a struggling Irish family during the Irish Civil War.

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Reviews Theater

RIZZO (Theatre Exile): A big hit on the “Big Bambino”

Debra Miller October 23, 2015 No Comments

A world-premiere production on former Mayor Frank Rizzo portrays the good and the bad of the controversial Philadelphia icon.

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Reviews Theater

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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Reviews Theater

ANIMAL FARM (Luna): From pig to (wo)man, and from (wo)man to pig

Julius Ferraro October 21, 2015 No Comments

Impressive theatricality in an imperfect production of Orwell’s allegory of the Russian Revolution and Stalin’s real-life dystopia.

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Dance Reviews

DANCO ON DANCO (Philadanco): Hits, Misses, and Slam Dunks!

Gregory King for the Dance Journal October 21, 2015 No Comments

Boasting a youth ensemble, an apprentice company and a main performing company, The Philadelphia Dance Company is committed to celebrating and preserving African American traditions in dance.

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Reviews Theater

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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Music Reviews

BEGINNINGS… (Mendelssohn Club): Beginnings of a new tradition

Eri Yoneda October 20, 2015 1 Comment

Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia opens its 142nd season welcoming artistic director Paul Rardin with three psalms by Mendelssohn, a world premiere, and Mozart’s Mass in C.

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Reviews Theater

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre): A woman moved

Christopher Munden October 20, 2015 No Comments

In her amusing staging of Shakespeare, director Carmen Khan focuses on the compromise, interplay, and transformative power of love which make up a mature relationship.

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