Martin Zimmerman’s visceral, thoroughly modern, elegant one-woman show inspired by the tragic 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting.
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SWEAT (PTC): What’s the matter with Reading?
Why does SWEAT appeal to us, as aging urban middle-to-upper-to-upper-upper-class theatergoers? Do we hope to understand? Relate? Gawk? What do we applaud?
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UNHINGED (Matter Movement Group): 2018 Fringe review
Gather yourself for an illuminating walk along a dim, roughly hewn path into untamed territory where sounds and other sensory elements gather in corners to…
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STRANGE TENANTS (Sam Tower + Ensemble): 2017 Fringe review
STRANGE TENANTS is a genre-busting production couched in a classic setting.
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MOTH (Azuka): Another teen angst drama
While its opening moments certainly intrigue and amuse, MOTH loses steam as it chugs along.
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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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THE HOUR OF ALL THINGS (Missing Bolts/PWTF): Reflections on political arousal
“What can I do within this world?” ~ Nic, THE HOUR OF ALL THINGS by Caridad Svich In a riveting, nearly odic, 45 minute solo…
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CLOSER THAN EVER (Mazeppa): A charming musical exposé of mid-life angst
All songs and no dialogue is the format Richard Maltby, Jr. (lyrics) and David Shire (score) employ for their popular two-act musical revue now enjoying a top-notch staging by Mazeppa Productions.
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XANADU (Mazeppa Productions): A campy, aMUSEing musical
Zeus has decreed that Muses from Mount Olympus are not allowed to fall in love with mortals – that includes the Muse Clio and a boy from Venice Beach. Therein lies a story of forbidden love, gumption, and sly swipes at certain Hollywood movies — especially XANADU (Universal Pictures, 1980).
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XANADU (Mazeppa Productions): A Flop of a Film, but a Smash of a Show!
Greek mythology meets roller-disco in XANADU, a spirited send-up of American pop culture circa 1980, based on the preposterous movie of the same name starring Olivia Newton-John. Mazeppa’s exuberant production of the award-winning musical-comedy (book by Douglas Carter Beane, music and lyrics by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar) delivers an uproarious parody of both disco culture and the cult-classic film.
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