Looking at Arden Childrens Theater in words and sketch
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THE HUMANS (Walnut St): A nauseatingly annoying play, but maybe that’s the point
THE HUMANS is a difficult play to like or to watch
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TOUCHTONES (Arden): This must be a bad connection
Naughty and nice collide in TOUCHTONES, a musical fantasy in world premiere at the Arden.
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TOUCHTONES (Arden): 60-second review
This treacly throwback neither titillates nor liberates.
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2017 Barrymore nominees: In their own words
Phindie asked this year’s crop of Barrymore Award nominees about their experience of being nominated.
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BUZZER (Theatre Exile): We wouldn’t come here if we didn’t live here
A provocative and dismaying story, conveyed through complex characters rather than through statistics and theories
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HAND TO GOD (PTC): The human comedy with sock puppets
What a funny, nasty, smart show.
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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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STUPID FUCKING BIRD (Arden): A sidesplitting and insightful reinvention of Chekhov
Aaron Posner’s hilarious reinvention of The Seagull captures all of Chekhov’s laughable characters, absurdities of life, and self-references to the theater from a 21st-century perspective.
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THE SECRET GARDEN (Arden): Captivating mystery and haunting artistry
A superb cast and creative artistic design bring the story of traumatic loss and joyful renewal to life in the haunting musical adaptation of a Victorian classic.
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METAMORPHOSES (Arden): A swim with the gods
This visceral production explains why humans act the way that we do, and reveres love as the most sacred of experiences.
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FIELD HOCKEY HOT (11th Hour): A champion of laughter
One does not know what to expect when walking into a production revolving around sports. Many seem to believe that sports and theater do not…
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INCORRUPTIBLE (Arden): Laughter in the monastery
The set of Michael Hollinger’s witty INCORRUPTIBLE looks like it has been there for hundreds of years, transporting one back to the days of monks…
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DOWN PAST PASSYUNK (InterAct): Theater ‘wit’ a taste of South Philly
I once heard then-governor Ed Rendell give some cheesesteak advice: for the real deal don’t go to one of the big name line-around-the-block places, go to a food truck or your local deli and get one made-to-order. I was thinking about this truism and our prevailing infatuation with authenticity as I watched A. Zell Williams’s world premiere production of DOWN PAST PASSYUNK at InterAct Theatre.
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The Arden Hits a High Note with A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Stephen Sondheim’s transcendent musical exposé of love, liaisons, and life in 1900 Sweden.
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