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BABEL (Theatre Exile): Uncertifiable
Theatre Exile’s newest offering left Josh Herren cold. He is trying to figure out why.
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Playing God: Jacqueline Goldfinger talks about her newest play
Jackie Goldfinger on building a tower to god.
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Aiming to Change: In CANDLES, a teenaged playwright tackles gun violence
A professional production of a prizewinning student-written play
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EUREKA DAY (InterAct): 60-second review
Another, brief take on InterAct Theatre’s latest production
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EUREKA DAY (InterAct): An infectious satire
No easy answers, no good guys/bad guys; it’s life as we cope with it, only funnier.
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THE TEMPEST (Lantern): Sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not
Lantern Theater’s production of THE TEMPEST, Shakespeare’s last play, is an enjoyable, modest show, full of comedy and romance and the gentle spirit of human forgiveness.
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SENSITIVE GUYS (InterAct): Satirizing the dialectic of sex
What’s being satirized in this social satire? Good question, with several answers.
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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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YOU FOR ME FOR YOU (Interact): Sisters in different worlds
This thoughtful production changes how we see the world and ourselves
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36 VIEWS (Lantern): Using artifice to reveal truths
Visually beautiful and compelling in its coherence, 36 VIEWS weaves these intellectual concepts on the uncertainty of art and life with a wholly original style.
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THE NETHER (InterAct): Lolita in Nether-land
Accompanying sketches by Aaron Krolikowski, thesketchbookreporter.com.
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LIGHTS RISE ON GRACE (Azuka): Cultural identities in the stage lights
Three cleverly interconnected survival stories about the complicated nature of life, love, and family.
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SHIPWRECKED! (Walnut): A delight of theater
SHIPWRECKED! goes to the heart of storytelling. It doesn’t matter whether a tale is true or false as long as it engages and even thrills.
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Sketching A WINTER’S TALE (SCP)
Thursday’s performance of A WINTER’S TALE by Shakespeare in Clark Park took place in the rain venue of Drexel’s Mandell Theater, but that didn’t stop…
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VOICES OF A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES (Plays & Players): This time we have to succeed
VOICES is not just provocative; it is full of infectious hope that this time, united, we really will succeed.
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CAUGHT (InterAct): On the nature of art and truth
When artful deceptions permeate an artist’s life, it casts doubt on everything we believe but never really knew.
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CAUGHT (InterAct): The truth is just a lie
CAUGHT marks the first entry into InterAct’s season of all-new plays. What a great start.
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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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SOME OTHER KIND OF PERSON (InterAct)
The title of Eric Pfeffinger’s SOME OTHER KIND OF PERSON, now in production by Interact Theatre Company, refers to a purposefully misquoted line of Aristotle,…
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