The danger with a Brian Friel play is charm. No stage Irishmen here at Irish Rep’s production, no comical drunkenness. Another danger, especially in a…
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THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM (Azuka): Impassioned and interesting sidestepping
In a world full of rooms which are full of elephants, a lot of sidestepping is required of us all.
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CAMP SIEGFRIED (Theatre Exile): An unlikely love story
Love happens, even in a setting dedicated to concentrated evil, as an American girl becomes a fierce Nazi uber-princess.
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WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME (Arden): A witch’s cauldron of sometimes magic
Even the most hallowed document is no match for a teenage girl, as Heidi Schreck reveals in her play, What the Constitutions Means to Me.…
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Life in Oz: Interview with Celia Hottenstein in WICKED
Actress Celia Hottenstein has taken on the role of Glinda in the national tour of Wicked. The musical sensation is the 4th longest running Broadway…
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Singing Sondheim: Interview with Beth Stafford Laird in COMPANY
Beth Stafford Laird is no stranger to life on the road. The actress, who grew up in Wayne, PA, counts COMPANY as her fifth national…
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[NYC] MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG (Hudson Theater)
This is vintage Sondheim, the unimaginable flop now on Broadway again, restored to its dazzling, heart-wrenching brilliance. Merrily We Roll Along has been called his most personal,…
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NO EXIT (Quintessence): A new translation of a hellishly absurd classic
Quintessence Theater’s founding artistic director Alex Burns, has written a new translation from the original French
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[NYC] PURLIE VICTORIOUS (Music Box Theatre): A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch
Ossie Davis’s brilliant and hilarious play is part vaudeville, part sermon. And if preaching is theater, theater is preaching. And the lesson is that “faith…
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ASSASSINS (Arden): A celebration of psychopaths
The wall of the F. Otto Haas Stage features pictures of targets and X’s for murdered presidents. Starting with John Wilkes Booth’s killing of Abraham…
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TARTUFFE (Lantern): Delightfully over-the-top
Before he became a celebrated playwright, Jean-Baptiste Poquelan was a poor thing in a touring shoestring theater company. Although he had wanted to be a…
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Fringe in Sketch: CYBORG DREAMS (Curt Haworth Movement and Performance)
The piece lands in the not-so-distant future, when humans have evolved with their technology to become one. This is a nonlinear journey through the reimagined…
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That’s Fetch: Interview with MEAN GIRLS’ Natalie Shaw
Natalie Shaw grew up in Fargo, North Dakota and started her musical theatre training at an early age. After finishing her degree at the University…
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Fringe in Sketch: ASHES ASHES (Yellow Bicycle Company)
An exploration of the costs of total war and the minds of its apologists.
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Fringe in Sketch: TODOROV’S DIRTY LAUNDRY (Nick Gillette Improv)
Each night, a freshly generated play centers upon a single unanswerable question: Did this widower see a ghost or is he going mad?
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Fringe in Sketch: WALK AROUND PHILADELPHIA (JJ Tiziou)
100 miles of adventure and discovery around the city’s edge. Walk Around Philadelphia is a journey in segments that connect people to their own bodies,…
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Fringe in Sketch: FALLING UP (The Naked Stark)
A celebration of play, possibility, and the tenderness of being human. Six dance artists displace gravity to co-create new worlds with fantastical possibilities. Step into Falling…
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Fringe in Sketch: DILDOS AND BODY PARTS (Diva D’Luscious)
Dating is hard — especially as a newly human, newly single mermaid. This original and irreverent modern day fairy-tale, straight from the clubs of Berlin, features six…
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Fringe in Sketch: HERE BE SIRENS (Ex Anima Artists)
Drift into the “mystic misunderstood” as audience members are immersed in the psychological turmoil of three Siren sisters cursed to be alluring killers and set…
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Fringe in Sketch: ODYSSEUS (Kingfisher Theatre)
Odysseus is a bold and emotional tour de force, a compelling one-man play based on Homer’s epic Greek tale. Accompanied only by musician Rob Aptaker.…
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