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Tag: Bi Jean Ngo

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In Search of the Kitchen Gods (1812 Productions): A recipe for success

Krista Mar June 24, 2022 No Comments

Everyone is welcome in Bi Jean Ngos Vietnamese kitchen

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BABEL (Theatre Exile): Uncertifiable

Joshua Herren February 23, 2020 No Comments

Theatre Exile’s newest offering left Josh Herren cold. He is trying to figure out why.

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Jackie Goldfinger. Babel Theatre Exile
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Playing God: Jacqueline Goldfinger talks about her newest play

Christopher Munden January 29, 2020 No Comments

Jackie Goldfinger on building a tower to god.

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Aiming to Change: In CANDLES, a teenaged playwright tackles gun violence

Smalley Bogg January 7, 2020 No Comments

A professional production of a prizewinning student-written play

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EUREKA DAY (InterAct): 60-second review

Rudolf Schreiber November 6, 2019 No Comments

Another, brief take on InterAct Theatre’s latest production

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EUREKA DAY (InterAct): An infectious satire

Toby Zinman October 31, 2019 No Comments

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

Toby Zinman March 23, 2018 No Comments

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 review
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SENSITIVE GUYS (InterAct): Satirizing the dialectic of sex

Toby Zinman January 25, 2018 5 Comments

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

Dorie Byrne September 13, 2017 No Comments

STRANGE TENANTS is a genre-busting production couched in a classic setting.

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Bi Jean Ngo and Mina Kawahara in YOU FOR ME FOR YOU. Photo by Kate Raines/Plate 3 Photography.
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YOU FOR ME FOR YOU (Interact): Sisters in different worlds

Dorie Byrne March 31, 2017 No Comments

This thoughtful production changes how we see the world and ourselves

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36 VIEWS (Lantern): Using artifice to reveal truths

Christopher Munden June 2, 2016 No Comments

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

Michael Kelly April 14, 2016 1 Comment

Accompanying sketches by Aaron Krolikowski, thesketchbookreporter.com.

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LIGHTS RISE ON GRACE (Azuka): Cultural identities in the stage lights

Ninni Saajola November 12, 2015 No Comments

Three cleverly interconnected survival stories about the complicated nature of life, love, and family.

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SHIPWRECKED! (Walnut): A delight of theater

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper October 17, 2015 No Comments

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)

Christopher Munden August 1, 2015 No Comments

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

Ninni Saajola January 30, 2015 No Comments

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

Debra Miller November 10, 2014 No Comments

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

Christopher Munden November 4, 2014 1 Comment

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

Kathryn Osenlund February 4, 2014 No Comments

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)

Christopher Munden June 9, 2013 No Comments

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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