In the wake of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, Shakespeare is summoned to take on a play commission for the Crown.
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[NYC] KING CHARLES III (Stuart Thompson, Sonia Friedman Productions, and Almeida Theatre): A savvy foray into future history
A future history play, evocative of Shakespeare, imagines political intrigue, public crises, and personal dilemmas within Britain and the royal family following Prince Charles’s ascension to the throne.
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FOX ON THE FAIRWAY (Act II): Camaraderie of a club
No golf interest? No problem. This show has tongue-in-cheek humor, love, competition, and the danger of the unexpected.
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And the Winners Are… 2015 Barrymore Award winners
2015 Barrymore Awards recipients by award category
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THE HANDMAID’S TALE (Curio): One woman’s poignant and personal story
A timely retelling of Margaret Atwood’s classic dystopian novel.
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CHOPIN WITHOUT PIANO (CENTRALA / Fringearts): A story of a revolutionary musician
A polish director and a polish actor project a new image of the composer by playing his two piano concertos with an orchestra and an actor playing the piano part.
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Directing the Barrymores: Steve Pacek on putting together the award ceremony
Excitement, surprising winners, and a brand new award: Barrymore director Steve Pacek tells us whats in store at this years ceremony.
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ALL IN THE TIMING (IRC): Six fast and funny existentialist shorts
A collection of six short one-act comedies address the existentialist dilemma and pose the ubiquitous question, “What if?”
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Sketching Theater: RIZZO (Theatre Exile)
Artist Aaron Krolikowski provides first-hand accounts of events. Not in words, but in sketch.
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BEHIND CLOSED DOORS (Speakeasy 932): A triumph of the theatrical imagination
Invited into a residence on Juniper Street, we are told to explore whichever way we like. We find 7 dynamically different tales from 5 playwrights.
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DRACULA (Hedgerow): Raising the stakes
This not your usual resurrection of the Dracula story of seducing young women to join him in the realm of the undead.
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LA RONDE (Brenna Geffers): Moving around and switching around Schnitzler
A new site-specific re-envisioning of Schnitzler’s 19th-century play brings post-modern import to his now-historic examination of socio-sexual mores.
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THE MADNESS OF POE (Mechanical): A spellbinding production for the Halloween season
An original and inventive adaptation of Poe interweaves stories by the Master of the Macabre within the period rooms of Historic Strawberry Mansion.
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Peggy and the PAYCOCK: Interview with Peggy Mecham of Irish Heritage Theatre
Henrik Eger interviews Peggy Mecham about JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK, the second part of playwright Sean O’Casey’s “Dublin Trilogy”.
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RIZZO (Theatre Exile): A romp through the Rizzo years
Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear when Frank Rizzo strode the city like he owned it.
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JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK (IHT): A tragi-comic call for personal responsibility and peace in troubled times
The second installment in playwright Sean O’Casey’s tragi-comic “Dublin Trilogy” traces the misfortunes of a struggling Irish family during the Irish Civil War.
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RIZZO (Theatre Exile): A big hit on the “Big Bambino”
A world-premiere production on former Mayor Frank Rizzo portrays the good and the bad of the controversial Philadelphia icon.
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THE MANDRAKE (Quintessence): A Machiavellian sex satire
What could be so funny in a play written nearly 500 years ago? There is something for everyone to either laugh or balk at in this bawdy production of a play by Machiavelli.
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ANIMAL FARM (Luna): From pig to (wo)man, and from (wo)man to pig
Impressive theatricality in an imperfect production of Orwell’s allegory of the Russian Revolution and Stalin’s real-life dystopia.
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Chopin As He Was Meant To Be Heard: Without the piano
Frédéric François Chopin’s expressive and technically demanding piano concertos are among the finest in the classical music canon. So naturally, Polish actor Barbara Wysocka and director Michael Zadara…
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