Where are the great acts I remembered? The trained cats? the galloping horses? the iron men? the Wheel of Death?
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Playing Ike: Interview with actor Garrett Turner of Tina: The Tina Turner Musical
Alabama native Garrett Turner is playing Ike Turner in the national tour of Tina: The Tina Turner Musical.
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Every Brilliant Thing (Arden Theatre Company): 60-second review
Scott Greer has the audience suffering with him, then happy for him. It seems this story could have been his personal history. He owns it that much.
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The Tattooed Lady (Philadelphia Theatre Company): Tattoo as metaphor, tattoo as tattoo
Boisterous, joyful, defiant, and a little bawdy, the show may have a sketchy contraption of a plot, but you don’t go to a musical expecting Hamlet.
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DEATH OF A DRIVER (InterAct): Years pass, roads are built, potholes appear
“We are together.” This line is an often-repeated refrain in Death of a Driver, a grim new play by Will Snider presented by InterAct at the Drake’s Proscenium…
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My Policeman (dir. Michael Grandage): Film review
It’s hard to pinpoint exactly why My Policeman doesn’t resonate as deeply as it should. Director Michael Grandage and writer Ron Nyswaner’s adaptation of Bethan…
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LES MISERABLES (National Tour): How do you say schmaltz in French?
Q: How do you say schmaltz in French? A: Les Miserables. This long musical melodrama, based on Victor Hugo’s long novelistic melodrama is currently wowing…
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DEATH OF A DRIVER (InterAct): 60-second review
Faced with bureaucratic nonsense or official missteps, who hasn’t said ‘fuck the government’ or a more genteel equivalent? The multi-ethnic East African Kenya Colony gained independence in…
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A Brilliant Role: Interview with actor Scott Greer
Scott Greer returns to Arden Theatre this month to reprise his role in Every Brilliant Thing. The local actor is no stranger to the Philadelphia…
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10 DATES WITH MAD MARY (Inis Nua): Irish charm at Fergies Pub
Anna Faye Lieberman gives us the raging, disappointed, self-indicting, violent, drunk, lonely, and altogether wild-hearted Mary
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One Day More: Interview with Les Misérables’ Steve Czarnecki
Steve Czarnecki says he is thrilled to be back on the barricade with the touring cast of Les Miserables. Steve not only plays an ensemble…
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BLACK LODGE (Opera Philadelphia): Beautiful, unsettling, and thrilling
If Black Lodge is any indication of what the afterlife has in store for us then I would encourage you all to repent immediately—that is,…
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MODIGLIANI UP CLOSE at the Barnes: A dilettante at large reviews
Modigliani at the Barnes Foundation is a ravishing exhibition in a ravishing venue.
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THE GLASS MENAGERIE (Arden): Revisiting the famed memory play
Tennessee Williams had been writing since he was a teenager, and by the time he was 30 years old he was getting nowhere. His early…
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CINDERELLA (Pennsylvania Ballet): Ben Stevenson’s classic choreography
Philadelphia Ballet opens its 2022-2023 season with Ben Stevenson’s Cinderella. The production is dazzling and powerful, it may ALMOST let you believe in a fairytale. …
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New York Reviews: LEOPOLDSTADT and COST OF LIVING:
Two meditations on misfortune show us what it is to be “laughing wild amid severest woe.”
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Actor Ben Dibble steps into the ring in ROCKY, The Musical
Actor and audience favorite Ben Dibble is set to take the stage in Walnut Street Theatre’s ROCKY, The Musical.
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Little Girls Everywhere: Stefanie Londino in ANNIE
Jersey Girl Stefanie Londino is coming to Philly with the cast of Annie.
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THE CHAIRS (Quintessence): 60-second review
Due to the pandemic, it had been many months since I’d visited the Sedgwick Theater in Germantown. October 1 was opening night for The Chairs…
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ROMEO AND JULIET (OJ Productions): 2022 Fringe review
It’s a tragedy that more audiences will not have a chance to enjoy the production.
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