BECOMING DR. RUTH (Walnut): 60-second review
Jane Ridley is consistently engaging in Mark St. Germain’s chatty play about the woman who became Dr. Ruth.
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BLACK NATIVITY (Theatre Horizon): A celebration of human spirit
Ozzie Jones’s production of this updated Langston Hughes play dazzles in just about every way a theater piece can.
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A FREE MAN OF COLOR (Temple): Outrageous but haphazard vaudeville
John Guare’s play about race relations in early 19th century New Orleans is sprawling and convoluted under the best of circumstances.
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FALL SERIES 2015 (BalletX): Nature and nurture through breathtaking dancers
BalletX, kicks off their inaugural 10th season with the Fall Series 2015 with a world premiere by internationally acclaimed choreographer, Nicolo Fonte.
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A CHRISTMAS STORY, THE MUSICAL (Walnut): Recollections of an unforgettable holiday
The Philadelphia debut of a popular musical is filled with humor, wonderment, and sentimental recollections of a child’s Christmas in 1940 Indiana.
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AGE & BEAUTY, parts 1 & 2 (Miguel Gutierrez/ FringeArts): Choreographing the harsh realities of being a working artist
This three-part series by Miguel Gutierrez explores the difficulties of the performer’s life and career.
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FULL OF GRACE, part 2: Oppressed Catholic voices on stage
More thoughts on the good, bad, and ugly presented in Scott Barrow and Robert Choiniere’s play about LGBT Catholics.
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WEEDING OUT THE STONED (Good Good Comedy): Highly entertaining
Remember when you used to smoke tons of weed but thought no one knew you were stoned out of your gourd? You were wrong.
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A PORCH AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (Transmissions): The magic happens in magical realism
A magical realism play based on a true story could easily be a disaster, but Transmissios Theatre makes the magic happen.
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Famous Philadelphians: Ernesta Drinker Ballard (1920–2005)
A transformative force behind one of the city’s premier annual cultural events, Ernesta Drinker Ballard was also leading local and national figure in the campaign…
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Sketches of Ives: IRC’s ALL IN THE TIMING
Here’s what Chuck Schultz saw at the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium’s production of ALL IN THE TIMING by David Ives.
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MACBETH (Villanova): Ambition, conscience, fates, and kazoos
This production offers gore, unconventionality, and laughs, and certainly strikes up debates about the meaning of the play’s profound poetry.
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A PORCH AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (Transmissions): Extremist religion and unrequited love
In deep Siberia, Karp Lykov and his grown children encounter their first outsiders in fifty years.
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[book review] THE PHILADELPHIA CONNECTION: CONVERSATIONS WITH PLAYWRIGHTS, by B.J. Burton
Interviews with fifteen of Philadelphia’s noted contemporary playwrights give insights into the city’s flourishing theater community.
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FULL OF GRACE (Scott Barrow & Robert Choiniere): Part 1, a Catholic docudrama, hit like a succession of grenades going off at a Protestant church, days before the Pope arrived
A play about LGBT Catholics was performed as the Pope prepared to visit Philadelphia.
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LIGHTS RISE ON GRACE (Azuka): Cultural identities in the stage lights
Three cleverly interconnected survival stories about the complicated nature of life, love, and family.
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MERLIN AND WART (Kevin Stackhouse): Theater in the service of social reform
An intensely disturbing and impactful new play imagines the horrendous neglect and abuse suffered by two severely ill patients at Byberry Mental Hospital on the day of its closing in 1987.
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WATERSHIP DOWN (Simpatico/ Drexel MPiRP): A hop along a classic of children’s literature
Director Allen Radway coordinates an intricate but unpretentious array of parts into a coherent and appealing whole.
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BONNIE & CLYDE (Eagle): The passions and hardships of folk-hero outlaws
A dramatic, funny, and sympathetic portrayal of the infamous lovers and their crime spree during the Great Depression is set to music with a southern twang.
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Is It Always About Sex? Director Kittson O’Neill on the sexual politics of THE ROVER
If you don’t think every play is about sex, you shouldn’t be making theater.
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