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LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS (Walnut): Feeling nostalgic?

Toby Zinman January 21, 2023 No Comments

Are you missing those bad hairdos and baggy blue suits of 1969?

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About Face: Actor Charles Everett on A SOLDIER’S PLAY

Debra Danese January 18, 2023 No Comments

Actor Charles Everett brings both his acting and military background with him as he tours with A Soldier’s Play.

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Tár (dir. Todd Field): Film review

Michael Fisher January 11, 2023 No Comments

On the day I finally got around to watching Tár, Alpha Classics released a new collection of chamber music performed by virtuoso violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaya…

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“You Oughta Know”: Interview with Jagged Little Pill’s Charles P. Way

Debra Danese January 2, 2023 No Comments

Charles P. Way says he is “elated” to be on the first national tour of Jagged Little Pill. The UArts grad will return to Philly as a…

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[NYC] OHIO STATE MURDERS: Still experimental, still challenging, and still exciting controversy

Toby Zinman December 16, 2022 No Comments

Adrienne Kennedy’s crushingly beautiful play, Ohio State Murders, is making a long overdue debut on Broadway.

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[NYC] SOME LIKE IT HOT: Irony-free goodness

Toby Zinman December 16, 2022 No Comments

This new musical comedy, a Big Broadway rewrite of the 1959 classic movie, Some Like it Hot, offers fabulosity: huge production numbers, flashy costumes, marvelous…

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[NYC] BECKY NURSE OF SALEM (Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center)

Toby Zinman December 12, 2022 No Comments

The Crucible, has withstood all manner of productions, from starry Broadway to high school drama club, and it will withstand Sarah Ruhl’s crass replay, Becky Nurse of Salem

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All About the Bass: Interview with Adam Kubota of Postmodern Jukebox

Debra Danese December 9, 2022 No Comments

Bassist Adam Kubota is enjoying life on tour with Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox. The band performs today’s pop hits in the style of yesterday’s classics.…

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BIG APPLE CIRCUS: A dilettante at large review

Toby Zinman November 21, 2022 No Comments

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

Debra Danese November 15, 2022 1 Comment

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

Kathryn Osenlund November 11, 2022 1 Comment

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

Kathryn Osenlund November 10, 2022 No Comments

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

Toby Zinman November 7, 2022 No Comments

“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

Jeremy Kibler November 7, 2022 No Comments

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?

Toby Zinman November 7, 2022 No Comments

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

Kathryn Osenlund November 7, 2022 No Comments

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

Debra Miller October 31, 2022 No Comments

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

Toby Zinman October 28, 2022 1 Comment

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

Debra Danese October 25, 2022 No Comments

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

Keddy Michaels October 21, 2022 No Comments

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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