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LOVE, LIES AND TAXIDERMY (Inis Nua): To Wales with love

Christopher Munden February 21, 2018 No Comments

Perhaps it is Harris’s adept characterization of economic pains and societal pressures which sets light romantic comedy in pleasant relief.

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SOMETHING ROTTEN in Philadelphia: Philly natives return with the touring production

Debra Danese February 20, 2018 No Comments

Philadelphia natives Rob McClure and Maggie Lakis are returning home for SOMETHING ROTTEN.

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WAIT UNTIL DARK (Hedgerow Theatre): For brilliant suspense…

Lisa Panzer February 20, 2018 No Comments

Light, shadows, sound and silences coalesce with acting artistry to create a stirring, sensational air of suspense

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NEXT TO NORMAL (Media Theatre): Powerful and poignant

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper February 15, 2018 No Comments

Krissy Fraelich’s riveting central performance blends with the perfection of Geoffrey Goldberg’s direction to make this production not only powerful and poignant.

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MR BURNS (Villanova): The future in three acts

Christopher Munden February 15, 2018 No Comments

What would 21st-century American culture look like if all we knew about it was told generations after an apocalypse

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HEISENBERG (Delaware Theatre Co.): 60-second review

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper February 14, 2018 No Comments

What? Him again? Yes and no.

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Theater in Sketch: TIME REMEMBERED (IRC)

Chuck Schultz February 13, 2018 No Comments

Sketches of TIME REMEMBERED by Jean Anouilh, presented by the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium February 6-March 4, 2018 at the Walnut Street Theatre Studio 5

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WAITING FOR GODOT (Quintessence): Really absurd

Christopher Munden February 12, 2018 No Comments

Quintessence Theatre Group’s WAITING FOR GODOT strikes a balance between humor and pathos, between realism and ridiculousness.

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A Vagina Monologues for our Times: Earlie Bird Productions’ V2: CREATION MYTH

Smalley Bogg February 12, 2018 No Comments

V2: Creation Myth follows up and updated the themes from The Vagina Monologues.

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Desi Oakley Takes Your Order: Talking about her role in the touring production of WAITRESS

Debra Danese February 11, 2018 No Comments

Desi Oakley is donning an apron and baking her way across the country as Jenna in the national tour of WAITRESS

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A dilettante at large: WRITTEN ON SKIN (Opera Philadelphia)

Toby Zinman February 11, 2018 4 Comments

Philadelphia’s premiere drama critic, Toby Zinman knows her theater. Opera, not so much. Here’s her dilettante review of Opera Philadelphia’s WRITTEN ON SKIN.

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Performance in Sketch: Daedalus String Quartet and Michael Hollinger’s OPUS

Chuck Schultz February 11, 2018 No Comments

Annenberg Center presented a program of music and theater, with a Beethoven performance by the Daedalus String Quartet and a staged reading by playwright Michael Hollinger