Director Charles McMahon equates the hot-blooded battle of wills between Kate and Petruchio with the intense, sensual, and stylized dance of the tango.
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RASHOMON (Luna): Kurosawa on the stage
Luna’s adaptation of one of the finest films ever made doesn’t dare to change enough to be much more than a translation of Kurosawa’s movie.
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COLLECTED STORIES (Isis): Lifting the mothballed veils of secrecy
Donald Margulies’s shocking intergenerational encounter COLLECTED STORIES is given a brutal performance at the Walnut Street Theatre Studio
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YOUNG VOICES MONOLOGUE FESTIVAL 2015 (InterAct): The maturity of Millennials
Baby Boomers are certain that Millennials are nothing but lazy, uncultured slackers. The YOUNG VOICES FESTIVAL blasts that idea into smithereens.
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MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG (Temple Theater): Parties and excess
The young talent the school is grooming stands out in the Temple Theater production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG.
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FIELD HOCKEY HOT (11th Hour): A champion of laughter
One does not know what to expect when walking into a production revolving around sports. Many seem to believe that sports and theater do not…
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MACBETH (Arden): Fast but not furious [critical mass review #2]
Alexander Burns’ production of MACBETH at Arden Theatre Company is energetic and visually engaging, but it lacks ferocity and substance.
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METRONOME TICKING (Henrik Eger/Bob Spitz): Human beings on both sides of the Holocaust
METRONOME TICKING intertwines the memoirs a Holocaust survivor with the personal letters of an ambitious Third Reich propaganda officer to tell a story of love and empathy in the time of the Holocaust.
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AND THEN THERE WERE NONE (Walnut): Ten little soldier boys having lots of fun
Agatha Christie has always been a theatrical guilty pleasure, like sitting down with a nice genre book or singing along to top 40
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BASKERVILLE (McCarter): An entertaining trip to Dartmoor
Ken Ludwig taps literature’s most iconic detective with BASKERVILLE, a funny, inventive, entertaining take on Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Hound of the Baskervilles.”
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LAFFERTY’S WAKE (Society Hill Playhouse): “For God’s sake, you got to laugh a little!”
Society Hill Playhouse celebrates St. Patrick’s Day with a seasonal revival of Susan Turlish’s musical-comedy send-up of the Irish,
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JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (People’s Light): A playful retelling for all ages
Scotland’s Visible Fictions brings a child-friendly version of the Greek myth of JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS, adapted by Robert Forrest, to People’s Light & Theatre Company
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MACBETH (Arden): Bloody bold and resolute [critical mass review #1]
Burns maintains the energy and pacing of his best work for Quintessence and takes full advantage of the Arden’s high production values to create an exuberant and understandable version of Shakespeare’s masterpiece.
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COLLECTED STORIES (Isis): When “What happens in Vegas” doesn’t stay in Vegas
An off-the-record conversation between an established author and her graduate student assistant becomes the basis for an increasingly adversarial examination of professional ethics, artistic license, and personal betrayal.
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MOON CAVE (Azuka Theatre): Eclipse of the mind
Playwright Douglas Williams gives us a view into the life and psyche of a young man haunted by horrific events from his past.
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GHOST (Media Theatre): Animating a corpse
Director Jesse Cline doesn’t let GHOST’s musical or lyrical deficiencies stand in his way of making involving theater.
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SWAN LAKE (PA Ballet): An enduring classic
If you want to see the traditional ballet form challenged but simultaneously upheld then Christopher Wheeldon’s adaptation of the Tchaikovsky classic is just the ticket.
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ARIADNE AUF NAXOS (Curtis Opera Theatre/Opera Philadelphia): Clowns and opera collide
ARIADNE AUF NAXOS predates Stephen Sondheim’s “Sunday in the Park with George” and David Hirson’s “La Bête” by decades, but the situation its plot depicts brings both of those later 20th century works to mind.
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UNNECESSARY FARCE (Act II): 60-second review
A stakeout goes awry with hilarious consequences in UNNECESSARY FARCE at Act II Playhouse.
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ROCCO (ICKamsterdam/FringeArts): Choreographic gloves come off
Philly dance fans were ringside for the fights last weekend for ROCCO, an exhibition of choreographic pugilism
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