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Tag: Brian McCann

Podcasts Reviews Theater

Pulitzer Podcast Review: STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE at the Arden

Phindie Podcasts February 3, 2022 No Comments

Chosen by Committee podcasters Josh Herren and Christopher Munden tear themselves from the Pulitzer bookcase to see a live Pulitzer-winning show.

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GEM OF THE OCEAN (Arden): A thing of beauty

Kathryn Osenlund March 12, 2019 No Comments

GEM OF THE OCEAN is about a lot of things, including race, mysticism, and murder.

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Features Theater

Theater in Sketch: MARIA MARTEN, or The Murder in the Red Barn (PAC)

Chuck Schultz June 21, 2018 No Comments

Maria Marten or The Murder in the Red Barn by the Philadelphia Artist Collective found the silly in the serious

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THE CRAFTSMAN (Lantern): Crafting a good story

Christopher Munden November 16, 2017 No Comments

Now in its world premiere from Lantern Theater, the latest play by Philly’s favorite playwright Bruce Graham is based on a true story. It’s a great story.

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Features Fringe Festival Theater

Fringe in Sketch: I, PEASEBLOSSUM (Curio Theatre)

Christopher Munden September 20, 2017 No Comments

I, PEASEBLOSSOM was a great character study for me. I wanted to keep capturing the many sides of Brian McCann.

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I, PEASEBLOSSOM (Curio): 2017 Fringe review

Dorie Byrne September 18, 2017 No Comments

I, PEASEBLOSSOM is a lark, even compared to its light-hearted inspiration, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THOMAS JEFFERSON, CHARLES DICKENS & COUNT LEO TOLSTOY: DISCORD (Lantern Theater Company): Locked in limbo with literati

Kathryn Osenlund June 13, 2017 2 Comments

The Lantern team transforms an essentially all-talk playscript into an engaging, living piece of theater.

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THE WHITE DEVIL (PAC): A bloody good thriller

Christopher Munden May 8, 2017 No Comments

PAC gives the Jacobin the veneer of a mid-20th century hard-boiler. Sketches by Chuck Schultz.

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Lantern Theater Company Coriolanus
Reviews Theater

CORIOLANUS (Lantern): Succeeding with a Shakespeare many companies wouldn’t attempt

Kathryn Osenlund March 18, 2017 4 Comments

With a strong cast and design wizards the Lantern has made CORIOLANUS a visceral, lively and thought-provoking experience

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WAITING FOR GODOT (Curio): Highlighting the hilarity of Beckett’s classic

Dorie Byrne February 16, 2017 No Comments

Curio’s designers have created a bubble of no time, no place, in which anything or nothing can happen.

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ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL (PAC): A mingled web well woven

Christopher Munden December 7, 2016 No Comments

PAC’s current production confirms its reputation as the best adaptor of classic works.

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Features Theater

Theater in Sketch: ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL (PAC)

Chuck Schultz December 6, 2016 1 Comment

Sketches of William Shakespeare’s ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL from Philadelphia Artists’ Collective.

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MAURITIUS (Act II): Feeling the philatelia

Lauren Hartranft November 8, 2016 No Comments

Act II Playhouse gets all dramatic with Theresa Rebeck’s MAURITIUS

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THE BIRDS (Curio): Terror takes flight

Christopher Munden October 8, 2016 No Comments

This adaptation by master Irish playwright Conor McPherson finds its horror in the claustrophobic relationships between its four characters

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HE WHO GETS SLAPPED (PAC): Spectacle and sadness at the circus

Debra Miller April 2, 2016 2 Comments

Leonid Andreyev’s classic tale of love and death in the Big Top is given original interludes of circus acts and live music to set the stage and mood.

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DEATH OF A SALESMAN (Curio): Bringing Arthur Miller to life

Rachel Dukeman February 19, 2016 No Comments

Curio’s production underscores the delusion and the rawness of the lives of the Loman family.

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BABY DOLL (McCarter): Not a girl, not yet a woman

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper September 28, 2015 No Comments

In Tennessee Williams’s script for 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and the 1956 screenplay that derives from it, Baby Doll, everybody puts Baby in a corner.

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DON QUIXOTE (Hedgerow): Cervantes’ knight errant rides anew

Lisa Panzer May 13, 2015 No Comments

The fanciful adventures of knight errant Don Quixote and loyal his sidekick Sancho Panza are refreshingly revived.

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OTHELLO (Curio): A different approach to an iconic tragedy

Debra Miller February 23, 2015 No Comments

This original take on OTHELLO has more the feel of a farcical comedy than an ironic tragedy

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Josh Carpenter (left) as Pip and Sally Mercer as Miss Havisham in the Arden Theatre Company’s GREAT EXPECTATIONS. Photo by Mark Garvin.
Arts Reviews Theater

GREAT EXPECTATIONS (Arden): Exceeds all expectations

Nicholas Ryan November 3, 2014 No Comments

With a perfect combination of passion, pride, storytelling, and imagination, the Arden Theatre Company’s production of GREAT EXPECTATIONS is a thrilling night of theater.

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