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Features Theater

Theater in Sketch: THREE SISTERS TWO (EgoPo)

Chuck Schultz February 12, 2019 No Comments

Chuck Schultz gives his thoughts in words and sketch

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Features Theater

Theater in Sketch: LYDIE BREEZE Part 3: MADAKET ROAD (EgoPo)

Chuck Schultz April 17, 2018 No Comments

The EgoPo Classical Theater’s production of John Guare’s Lydie Breeze part III was asking the fundamental question, “what is ‘it’.”

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Reviews Theater

LYDIE BREEZE PART 2: AIPOTU (EgoPo): Seeking utopia

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper March 11, 2018 No Comments

EgoPo’s presentation of John Guare’s Lydie Breeze continues with a look at a New England utopia.

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Reviews Theater

LYDIE BREEZE PART ONE: COLD HARBOR (EgoPo): Ambitious, sprawling, but emotionally hollow

Julius Ferraro February 5, 2018 No Comments

COLD HARBOR is fast-paced and skillfully produced, with a large, stylistically diverse cast, but at its emotional core it is stiff and distant.

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Features Theater

Philly Actors Who Are Better Than You (at acting) and Deserve to be Seen

John Rosenberg October 10, 2017 No Comments

Casting actors you don’t know is like getting a dog from the animal shelter. Shit is cool for a while but then they flip the fuck out and bite you or run away.

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Features Theater

Theater in Sketch: ANNA (EgoPo)

Chuck Schultz April 4, 2017 No Comments

A loose adaptation by Brenna Geffer and her ensemble based on the novel, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.

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seagull EgoPo review
Reviews Theater

SEAGULL (EgoPo): A comedy of torn hearts and thwarted dreams

Kathryn Osenlund February 8, 2017 No Comments

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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Reviews Theater

ANTAGONYMS (Curio): What are any of us but destructive dualities

Julie Zeglen December 4, 2016 No Comments

The messiness in Rachel Gluck’s debut play is what make it most lifelike. In the end, what are any of us but destructive dualities, fighting between our desires and our own self-interest?

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Reviews Theater

THE LION IN WINTER (CCTC): A lion for all seasons

Dorie Byrne August 16, 2016 No Comments

It’s the year 1183 and Henry II is disappointed in his sons and in love with a much younger woman. Some things never change.

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Reviews Theater

THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN (Curio): A light surface has a dark pull

Kathryn Osenlund May 3, 2016 No Comments

Something funny across the surface with dark issues riding just under it.

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60-Second Review Reviews Theater

HOLLY’S DEAD SOLDIERS (Chris Davis, Bruce Walsh and Douglas Williams): 60-second review

Owen Hamill April 24, 2016 No Comments

Adapting Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s but not pulling verbatim from the novella, three playwrights have created a special experience in a Point Breeze row home.

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Features Interviews Theater

Breakfast at Tiffany’s with Chris, Bruce, and Doug: Interview with three playwrights restaging a Fringe favorite

Christopher Munden April 22, 2016 No Comments

We talk to Chris Davis, Bruce Walsh, and Doug Williams ahead of their relaunch of HOLLY’S DEAD SOLDIERS.

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Reviews Theater

THE YEAR OF THE RAW ONION (IRC): A cabaret cocktail of satire and absurdity

Debra Miller March 21, 2016 No Comments

A series of stand-up monologues culled from the satirical articles of The Onion delivered riotous socio-political commentary in a fast-paced 75 minutes.

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Reviews Theater

THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR (IRC): Corruption!

Julius Ferraro February 8, 2016 No Comments

A production that forefronts Gogol’s surprising, desperate, hypnotizing dialogue. Illustration by Mike Jackson.

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Reviews Theater

A PORCH AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (Transmissions): The magic happens in magical realism

Ninni Saajola November 15, 2015 No Comments

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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Reviews

Sketches of Ives: IRC’s ALL IN THE TIMING

Chuck Schultz November 15, 2015 No Comments

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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Reviews Theater

A PORCH AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (Transmissions): Extremist religion and unrequited love

Julius Ferraro November 14, 2015 No Comments

In deep Siberia, Karp Lykov and his grown children encounter their first outsiders in fifty years.

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Reviews Theater

ALL IN THE TIMING (IRC): Six fast and funny existentialist shorts

Debra Miller October 30, 2015 No Comments

A collection of six short one-act comedies address the existentialist dilemma and pose the ubiquitous question, “What if?”

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Features SoLow Fest 2016 Theater

Brightening Up SoLow Fest: Bright Invention takes over this year’s festival with nine original shows

Christopher Munden June 18, 2015 No Comments

Nearly a quarter of the works in this year’s SoLow Fest come from one company: Bright Invention.

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Features Reviews Theater

That’s Just Like Your Opinion, Man: RAW ONION REVIVAL (IRC) actors become their own critics

Henrik Eger May 8, 2015 No Comments

Every actor has experienced theater critics who got things a little wrong. Here’s their chance to peel their own onion.

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