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WAITING FOR GODOT (Curio): Highlighting the hilarity of Beckett’s classic

Dorie Byrne February 16, 2017 No Comments

Curio’s designers have created a bubble of no time, no place, in which anything or nothing can happen.

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Neal Zoren’s BEST OF PHILADELPHIA THEATER, 2016

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper February 12, 2017 1 Comment

Neal Zoren chose his favorite productions, directors, and actors from the last year.

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Theater in Sketch: THE ENCHANTED (IRC) and A DOLL’S HOUSE (Swarthmore)

Chuck Schultz February 12, 2017 No Comments

Comparinge the absurdist comedy of Giraudoux with the serious drama of Ibsen.

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SANS EVERYTHING (FringeArts): Artificial Intelligence with Lightning Rod Special + Strange Attractor

Lev Feigin February 11, 2017 1 Comment

Humanity creates its own godhead – AI – that longs to experience its creators through Shakespeare

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THE ENCHANTED (IRC): a great revival speaks to our times

Lev Feigin February 10, 2017 No Comments

Philly’s favorite absurdist company Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium revives Jean Giraudoux’s THE ENCHANTED.

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SEAGULL (EgoPo): A comedy of torn hearts and thwarted dreams

Kathryn Osenlund February 8, 2017 No Comments

The pathetically unfulfilled romantic expectations! The sad characters and absurd human comedy! EgoPo nails it, and beautifully. Sketches by Chuck Schultz.

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JOHN (Arden): Things that haunt

Christopher Munden February 7, 2017 No Comments

There remains something compelling about ghost stories. Annie Baker’s JOHN demonstrates why: our past haunts just as well as any poltergeist.

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ROMEO & JULIET (Media): A Rose of any other name

Chuck Schultz February 5, 2017 No Comments

The lights show a bare stage; the set is two dilapidated buildings with scaffolding. The curtains intermittently change from day to night with a transient…

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Philadelphia Theater Calendar February 2017

Calendar February 1, 2017 No Comments

What’s on stage this month in Philadelphia?

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LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR (Walnut): Funny, morbid, timely, and of a time

Julie Zeglen January 28, 2017 No Comments

Theatergoers who long for the good ol’ days of pre-political correctness will love it. Everyone else, just enjoy the ride.

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Two by Tuomanen: MARCUS/EMMA (InterAct) and HELLO! SADNESS (FringeArts)

Christopher Munden January 28, 2017 No Comments

Two shows by Philadelphia writer Mary Tuomanen opened on consecutive nights last week, providing a singular opportunity to assess common threads tying together works by the author.

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HAMLET (Bedlam Theater Company): “Shakespeare’s most underrated comedy” is at McCarter in Princeton

Kathryn Osenlund January 27, 2017 No Comments

Bedlam’s imagination and the energy of their acting make their production stand out.

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Dance in Sketch: DOUG VARONE AND DANCERS (NextMove)

Chuck Schultz January 24, 2017 No Comments

oug Varone and Dancers presented three different dances

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Matt and Matt: A conversation with one-man comedy duo Matt Holmes

Smalley Bogg January 22, 2017 No Comments

In Matt&, Philly improv comedian Matt Holmes performs with an audience member. The show runs every month at 7pm on the fourth Thursday of the month at the new Good Good Comedy Theatre.

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CONSTELLATIONS (Wilma): Love in the multiverse

Julie Zeglen January 22, 2017 No Comments

“We have all the time we ever had.”

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INFORMED CONSENT (Lantern): A strange kind of ethics

William Brock January 21, 2017 No Comments

The play has a compelling point to make about the diversity of truth and mutual respect, but in the end, it’s difficult to take the argument seriously.