Youth is fleeting; beauty is not.
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Tag: Drew Billiau
Theater in Sketch: CORIOLANUS (Shakespeare in Clark Park)
The audience gather together on two adjacent hill sides and in the middle is a stretch of grass,
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CORIOLANUS (Lantern): Succeeding with a Shakespeare many companies wouldn’t attempt
With a strong cast and design wizards the Lantern has made CORIOLANUS a visceral, lively and thought-provoking experience
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SUNSET, O639 HOURS (BalletX): A ballet masterpiece
Like other masterpieces of ballet, SUNSET, O639 HOURS grows by itself and lets the dancers grow.
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GUARDS AT THE TAJ (Theatre Exile): Beauty and brutality join hands
The debate central to Rajiv Joseph’s absorbing new play isn’t just talk: when you lose this one, you really lose.
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FALL SERIES 2015 (BalletX): Nature and nurture through breathtaking dancers
BalletX, kicks off their inaugural 10th season with the Fall Series 2015 with a world premiere by internationally acclaimed choreographer, Nicolo Fonte.
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ALIAS ELLIS MACKENZIE (Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental and CINEtica): 2015 Fringe review 50
Eleven skilled performers play crew or actors on the set of a Colombian TV show about 1980s American drug pilot and adventurer Barry Seal.
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THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (Lantern): 60-second review
The adaptation appropriates the ludicrous plot points and outlandish characters in Arthur Conan Doyle’s opus for a fast and fun theatrical comedy.
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Fall Series (BalletX): Darkness on the edge of ballet
BalletX’s Fall Series features three disparate dances united by evocative lighting schemes and the genre-stretching beauty of movement which characterizes the company.
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RED-EYE TO HAVRE DE GRACE (Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental): New York Theatre Workshop sees a reshaped Philly Fringe hit
I have taken the train up from Philadelphia to the New York Theatre Workshop to see how RED-EYE to HAVRE de GRACE has fared since I last saw it. I had discovered it in the Philadelphia Live Arts workshop production in 2005. Between that iteration and the world premiere at Philadelphia Fringe Festival in 2012, an evolutionary process took place.
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THE TRAIN DRIVER (Lantern): A haunting look across the tracks
There’s something haunting Roelf (Peter DeLaurier) in the Lantern Theater Company’s atmospheric production of Athol Fugard’s THE TRAIN DRIVER. Disturbed by the memory of a…
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DOWN PAST PASSYUNK (InterAct): Theater ‘wit’ a taste of South Philly
I once heard then-governor Ed Rendell give some cheesesteak advice: for the real deal don’t go to one of the big name line-around-the-block places, go to a food truck or your local deli and get one made-to-order. I was thinking about this truism and our prevailing infatuation with authenticity as I watched A. Zell Williams’s world premiere production of DOWN PAST PASSYUNK at InterAct Theatre.
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Wilma Theater’s CHEROKEE impresses, in a way
John, a baby boomer, patriarch, and oil exec who has spent his life gaining, has lost quite a lot in a short period of time:…
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