Someone should sit down and write a dozen Country tunes for Jessica Wagner to record in the style of Patsy Cline.
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Talking EMPEROR JONES: Interview with the director and cast of O’Neill’s tragedy at the South Camden Theatre Company
Eugene O’Neill’s THE EMPEROR JONES kicks off the South Camden Theatre Company’s Fall season
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GROUNDED (InterAct): The killing screens
GROUNDED is a tale for our times: war is most hellish when it resembles office life, reality is most profound rendered in pixels.
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THE BIRDS (Curio): Terror takes flight
This adaptation by master Irish playwright Conor McPherson finds its horror in the claustrophobic relationships between its four characters
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ELECTRA (Villanova): Sophocles gets electrified
Review of Sophocles’ Electra at Villanova Theatre
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Thomas Choinacky Says There’s No Hope
The founder of SoLow Fest talks about his latest work, HOPELESSNESS, performed one night only October 8.
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Leading the Blind: Interview with the director and cast of Irish Heritage Theatre’s MOLLY SWEENEY
We presented five questions to IRT’s Peggy Mecham, the director, and the three cast members: Kirsten Quinn as Molly Sweeney, the blind woman; Ethan Lipkin as the husband; and Michael P. Toner as the physician.
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MOLLY SWEENEY (Irish Heritage Theatre): That the blind may see
Turn off your phones, step away from your laptops, and run, don’t walk to the Irish Heritage Theatre’s first ever Barrymore-eligible production.
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Philly’s Kinda Cool episode 2.1: We back!
Would Sebastian would rather sleep with Hillary or Donald, what the hell his Fringe show was about, and what’s the worst way to cook an omelette?
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Drone Warfare Hits Home: Kittson O’Neill on InterAct’s GROUNDED
Kittson O’Neill plays a fighter pilot and expectant mother living in a desert suburb in the U.S. Southwest, controlling weapons which kill people in a distant foreign desert.
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THE MOUNTAINTOP (People’s Light): An original vision of Martin Luther King
Katori Hall’s creative re-imagining of Martin Luther King’s final night before his assassination in 1968 is delivered through forceful performances and an evocative design.
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HOW WE GOT ON (Azuka): A rapper’s delight straight outta the suburbs
Idris Goodwin’s play displays the same playful humor, poetic intelligence, and human insights as the early hip hop music it salutes.
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RIZZO (PTC): A larger-than-life life onstage
An entertaining work about a compelling character, RIZZO displays pitfalls common to biographical drama.
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Philadelphia Theater Calendar: October 2016
Calendar of shows, October 2016.
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DEATH IS A CABARET OL’ CHUM: A GRAVEYARD CABARET (REV Theatre Company): 2016 Fringe review 94
REV Theatre Company let loose a quirky combo of fright-night-meets-kickline-cabaret for this year’s Fringe.
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MRS. WARREN’S PROFESSION (Lantern): Thought-provoking amusement
In a Philadelphia theater season with an auspicious beginning, this production of MRS. WARREN’S PROFESSION might be the most auspicious of all.
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Shakespeare Fringe Roundup: Misadventures among the classics
Toby Zinman gives bullet reviews of nine Shakespeare-ish shows in this year’s Fringe.
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KING JOHN (Revolution Shakespeare): 2016 Fringe review 88
You won’t get many opportunities to see KING JOHN; you’re unlikely to see one as well-rendered as Revolution Shakespeare’s.
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THE GAS HEART (Once More Theatre): 2016 Fringe review 87
Tristan Tzara called his play THE GAS HEART “the greatest three-act hoax of the century.”
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Fringe in Sketch: JULIUS CAESAR. SPARED PARTS
Italian director Romeo Castellucci re-envisions his groundbreaking 1997 production Giulio Cesare as a series of “fragments” rearranged and positioned against each other
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