SEAGULL (EgoPo): A comedy of torn hearts and thwarted dreams
The pathetically unfulfilled romantic expectations! The sad characters and absurd human comedy! EgoPo nails it, and beautifully. Sketches by Chuck Schultz.
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JOHN (Arden): Things that haunt
There remains something compelling about ghost stories. Annie Baker’s JOHN demonstrates why: our past haunts just as well as any poltergeist.
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ROMEO & JULIET (Media): A Rose of any other name
The lights show a bare stage; the set is two dilapidated buildings with scaffolding. The curtains intermittently change from day to night with a transient…
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Philadelphia Theater Calendar February 2017
What’s on stage this month in Philadelphia?
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LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR (Walnut): Funny, morbid, timely, and of a time
Theatergoers who long for the good ol’ days of pre-political correctness will love it. Everyone else, just enjoy the ride.
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Two by Tuomanen: MARCUS/EMMA (InterAct) and HELLO! SADNESS (FringeArts)
Two shows by Philadelphia writer Mary Tuomanen opened on consecutive nights last week, providing a singular opportunity to assess common threads tying together works by the author.
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Dance eXchange (BalletX): Handing wings to our future
Through performance, we how to keep our boundaries and respect each other, sharing what we love and cherish
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HAMLET (Bedlam Theater Company): “Shakespeare’s most underrated comedy” is at McCarter in Princeton
Bedlam’s imagination and the energy of their acting make their production stand out.
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A Winter in the Life of J.S. Bach
This February, Choral Arts Philadelphia presents the Winter segment of the 1734-1735: A Season In The Life of J.S. Bach.
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Dance in Sketch: DOUG VARONE AND DANCERS (NextMove)
oug Varone and Dancers presented three different dances
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Matt and Matt: A conversation with one-man comedy duo Matt Holmes
In Matt&, Philly improv comedian Matt Holmes performs with an audience member. The show runs every month at 7pm on the fourth Thursday of the month at the new Good Good Comedy Theatre.
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CONSTELLATIONS (Wilma): Love in the multiverse
“We have all the time we ever had.”
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INFORMED CONSENT (Lantern): A strange kind of ethics
The play has a compelling point to make about the diversity of truth and mutual respect, but in the end, it’s difficult to take the argument seriously.
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AND THEN THERE WERE NONE (Allens Lane): This production of Agatha Christie’s classic stays close to the original
The real horror of Christie’s original ending sits in discord with the show’s campy beginning.
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LIZZIE (11th Hour): Lizzie Borden took an axe
This is what “stifled rage” sounds like. Not so stifled, but certainly enraged.
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Theater in Sketch: Chris Davis in ONE-MAN APOCALYPSE NOW
The setting is Vietnam and we are just waking up at the voice of Martin Sheen.
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THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, PART 2 (Hedgerow): Infinite fun!
Familiarity with the pan-galactic Hitchhikers Guide isn’t necessary to appreciate this cosmic comedy, just a general suspension of time, disbelief and willingness to have infinite fun.
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Theater in Sketch: ENTER LAUGHING (Players Club of Swarthmore)
This meta-play within a play is clever and ridiculous.
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Circus in Sketch: Previewing CIRQUE ELOIZE
At a sneak peak of he cast of the circus that is coming to Merriam Theater January 13-14, 2017, Cirque Eloize performed for the kids of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and brought some real laughs and smiles for all.
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ENTER LAUGHING (Players Club of Swarthmore): Harvesting the humor in humiliation
Leave cynicism in the lobby and pick it up later
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