Youth is the time of our lives when the more adventurous among us follow French poet Arthur Rimbaud’s dictum that “everything we are taught is false.”
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Oscar-Winning Movies Don’t Come From Plays Anymore
No published or produced play has been the source for a Best Adapted Screenplay award since 1989.
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Philadelphia Theater Calendar March 2018
This is what you can see in Philly theaters in March 2018.
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Remembering TIME REMEMBERED: Interviews with the IRC cast
Henrik Eger talked to the IRC cast about their production of Jean Anouith’s play.
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A STEADY RAIN (Walnut St): An intense and engrossing cop show
If you’re a fan of TV police procedurals this is the play for you.
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Why Wait? Director Ken Marini talks about Quintessence Theatre’s brilliant WAITING FOR GODOT
Quintessence Theatre’s production of WAITING FOR GODOT just closed. Henrik Eger spoke to the director about his background and his experiences directing Samuel Beckett’s classic.
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AN EVENING WITH GROUCHO (Bucks County Playhouse): 60-second review
Frank Ferrante can turn into his boyhood and current idol, Groucho Marx, on a dime.
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LOVE, LIES AND TAXIDERMY (Inis Nua): To Wales with love
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
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…
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
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
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
What? Him again? Yes and no.
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Theater in Sketch: TIME REMEMBERED (IRC)
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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LYDIE BREEZE PART ONE: COLD HARBOR (EgoPo): Ambitious, sprawling, but emotionally hollow
COLD HARBOR is fast-paced and skillfully produced, with a large, stylistically diverse cast, but at its emotional core it is stiff and distant.
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