TROUSERS (Inis Nua): The Proof Is in the Pants
In keeping with their native tradition of storytelling, Irish playwrights Paul Meade and David Parnell weave an engaging tale of two estranged men who reconnect…
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ONDINE (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): At sea with emotional hyperbole
Talented and celebrated director Aaron Cromie teams up with the idiosyncratic Idopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium to tackle French impressionist Jean Giraudoux at the Walnut Street Theatre…
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The City of Brotherly Bard: Revolution Shakespeare returns with a show and a webseries
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better Philadelphia’s newest Shakespeare company, Revolution Shakespeare, will present the second offering of its inaugural season on…
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ONDINE (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): Nature versus Human Nature
When Hans, a handsome but not-so-smart knight-errant of Wittenstein, meets the unbridled naiad Ondine at a fisherman’s cottage in the woods, they fall recklessly in…
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Make a date with dance: BalletX Winter Series
If you still think of ballet as inaccessible formalist movement to stuffy classical music, you have not seen BalletX. With an inviting Winter 2014 program spanning Valentine’s Day, this is a great opportunity to make a date with dance.
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TRUE WEST (Theatre Exile): Sibling rivalry and the American dream
Sibling rivalry, conflicting personalities, and antithetical lifestyles regress to anti-social antics, primal rage, and role reversal in TRUE WEST, Sam Shepard’s dark comedy about two…
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ID:3 (Hybridge Arts): Tapas of challenging dance and theater
Last night at Christ Church Neighborhood House, Hybridge Arts Collective brought it to me live with ID:3, an evening of three performance works by the…
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GRIMMS’ JUNIPER TREE (Renegade): 60 Second Review
GRIMMS’ JUNIPER TREE weaves in plot points from various famously morose Grimm brothers’ fairy tales around one lesser known story—that of the Juniper Tree. This…
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TRUE WEST (Theatre Exile): a rare, in-your-face take on a modern classic
Theatre Exile mounts new, dicey plays and modern classics—badass classics, that is, from outstanding contemporary playwrights like Tracy Letts, Martin McDonough, and in this case,…
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GRIMMS’ JUNIPER TREE (Renegade): Important Lessons to Be Learned
Based on the dark and disturbing folktales of the Brothers Grimm, James Stover’s original world-premiere adaptation for the Renegade Company, GRIMMS’ JUNIPER TREE, examines the…
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THREE CHORD FICTION: LOVE BITES (BRAT): A Riotous Night of Rock-Theater Cabaret
BRAT Productions, Philly’s foremost purveyor of fearless rock-and-roll theater, rocks the Tin Angel with a new installment of its Barrymore Award-winning series THREE CHORD FICTION:…
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So, Grandma Sets You Up on a Blind Date…
It stands to reason that pairing grandmothers (even fantasy ones) and a creative type like a dancer or composer would result in a match made in heaven. At Thirdbird’s BLIND DATES, we find just that in an improvisational sampler platter. With the help of a bingo-ball spinner, our hosts, Fantasy Grandma randomly pair up dancers and musicians who have been assigned numbers corresponding with the balls….
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WATER BY THE SPOONFUL (Arden Theatre): Dissonance v. harmony
The tragic news of Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s death by OD has, for the moment, wrested the subject of substance abuse from the shadows and thrust…
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SNOWGLOBE (MacKnight Foundation): 60-second review
With clever repartee, SNOWGLOBE cleverly tackles deep existential questions. Under Bill McKinlay’s direction, the actors bring life and nuance to the clever Beckettian back-and-forth.
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Philadelphia Theater Calendar: February 2014
January | February | March | April | May | June July | August | September | October | November | December Sideways Stories from Wayside School. Adapted by John Olive from the books by Louis…
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CONFETTI (Gabrielle Revlock): Duets Galore in a Hardware Store
Gabrielle Revlock’s latest work Confetti, a medley of duets that featured Revlock dancing with her peers, her mother and an eight-year old, offered a dynamic and colorful assortment of relationships with her varying partners.
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THE ROOM NOBODY KNOWS (FringeArts): Put your secret emotions, dangerous illusions here
Enter the world of Japanese Japanese theater company Niwa Gekidan Penino: claustrophobic, hallucinatory, voyeuristic, surreal. Niwa is the Japanese word for “garden.” For over a decade…
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GIDION’S KNOT (InterAct) is a two-person powerhouse
Though the classroom where GIDION’S KNOT takes place looks as cheery, bright, and typical as any, the story that unfolds in it is certainly not.…
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The Five Stages of THE PILLOWMAN (Luna Theater)
Thank God for Taylor Swift. After seeing Luna Theater‘s mindcrushing production of Martin McDonagh’s THE PILLOWMAN last night, I found myself a broken man. I was shellshocked.…
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THE DISAPPEARING QUARTERBACK (Plays and Players) tackles football’s deadly foible
Yesterday morning, I received an email from the National Football League. I get these every day, more or less—updates from NFL.com on what’s happening around…
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