Okay: A drag queen show for children.
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A Play at the Intersection of Law and Brutality: CORPUS opens this week
How many bodies make a body of law? Corpus is a play at the intersection of legal interpretation and human experience.
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Fringe in Sketch: BIG ASS BITTIES PRESENTS… (Sarah Knittel)
This will be wild. Expect bits. You will see bits.
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TRAVESTIES (Lantern): A play of ideas married to farce
Tom Stoppard’s newest play Leopoldstadt is coming to New York, and once again he is being talked about as if he were the second coming…
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Fringe in Sketch: LUSTER (Junk)
Lust for exposure and success turns… TRAGIC. Set in an underground shopping mall turned nightclub, Junk’s newest experience, Luster, reveals the twisted nature of reality show…
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Watching THE TWO-CHARACTER PLAY (OUT-CRY) by Tennessee Williams
This play-within-a-play about a play takes place on the Bluver Theatre’s tiny stage, brightly lit, although called dim by the characters. The audience, up close…
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Romeo & Juliet in a Bar (Shakespeare on Tap): 2022 Fringe review
A little bit naughty at times, semi-Shakespearean lingo is mixed with a good deal of TomFoolery.
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FOOD (Geoff Sobelle): 2022 Fringe review
Unless you know Geoff Sobelle’s other works, you’ve never seen anything like this.
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TWO-CHARACTER PLAY (IRC): 2022 Fringe review
Nobody writes crazy, despairing, desperate women like Tennessee Williams
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DEAR EVAN HANSEN (National Tour at Forrest Theatre): Return to sender
The show’s message is deeply cynical: that social media and community solidarity in the face of tragic events are ultimately self-serving
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A Letter, a Lie, and the Role of a Lifetime: Alaina Anderson in Dear Evan Hansen
Alaina Anderson is loving her time on the national tour of Dear Evan Hansen.
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A Recurring Theme: Actor Greg Wood on TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Actor Greg Wood will return to Philly with the national tour of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
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Philadelphia Theater Calendar July 2022
What’s onstage in Philadelphia this month?
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In Search of the Kitchen Gods (1812 Productions): A recipe for success
Everyone is welcome in Bi Jean Ngos Vietnamese kitchen
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TALLEY’S FOLLY by Lanford Wilson (1980): Chosen by Committee episode 54
Lanford Wilson’s quiet one-act play about an unlikely love between a leftist Jewish immigrant and the daughter of a Missouri garment factory dynasty won the…
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INTO THE WOODS (Arden): A Sondheim show for grown-ups
No woods. No cutesy pop-up book set. Just three hours of pure musical theater pleasure: gorgeous melodies, clever lyrics, profound ideas and a dream cast.…
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FABULATION, OR THE RE-EDUCATION OF UNDINE (Lantern): A funny play with a serious agenda
Lynn Nottage knows how to “sustain the complexity” so that this funny play with a serious agenda works
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FAIRVIEW (Wilma): 60-second review
Pulitzer winners aren’t always great theatrical works, but they are often very revealing about the times in which they won
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Calling on Spirits: Mary Martello on her psychic role as Madame Arcarti in BLITHE SPIRIT
Actress Mary Martello is back on the Walnut stage in the current production of Blithe Spirit.
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Philadelphia Theater Calendar June 2022
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