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Tag: Ed Swidey

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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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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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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2018 Theater Preview: EgoPo Classic Theatre

Smalley Bogg January 5, 2018 No Comments

EgoPo Classic Theatre focuses its 2017/18 series on the work of John Guare with the world premiere of Guare’s Lydie Breeze Trilogy as one fluid theatrical experience.

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BLOOD WEDDING (Wilma): Movement in the veins

Christopher Munden November 3, 2017 2 Comments

Lorca’s BLOOD WEDDING makes a fitting vehicle for the Wilma Theater in-house troupe.

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seagull EgoPo review
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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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AN OCTOROON (Wilma): A melodrama, a social commentary, an experience

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper March 29, 2016 No Comments

Beyond being entertaining and thought-provoking, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s AN OCTOROON is an experience

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Music Previews

Chickabiddy to Perform in the MANTIS SINGER/SONGWRITER SHOWCASE at The Troc

Debra Miller March 9, 2016 1 Comment

Multi-talented theater artists Aaron Cromie and Emily Schuman formed Chickabiddy in 2015.

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What Can The Wilma Do With $10 Million?

Christopher Munden January 12, 2016 1 Comment

A new $10 million in funds includes money for an updated facade, a cafe space, and a 10-member artistic company.

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HANS BRINKER AND THE SILVER SKATES (Arden): The sweet rewards of hope, understanding, and kindness

Debra Miller December 7, 2015 1 Comment

A world-premiere stage adaptation of Mary Mapes Dodge’s 19th-century children’s story delivers a clear message about the importance of kindness and understanding.

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ANTIGONE (Wilma): Spectacular, but a spectacular failure

Ninni Saajola October 18, 2015 No Comments

The man behind the 2013 Fringe Festival hit AJAX, The Madness directs his version of ANTIGONE for the Wilma Theater.

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Ben Dibble, winner of "Best Actor" for his role in Herringbone at Flashpoint Theatre.
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Picks for Best in Theater, 2014/15, by Philly Reviewer Neal Zoren

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper July 12, 2015 No Comments

Each year, Philadelphia-based reviewer Neal Zoren announces his choices for the Helen and Morris Zoren Awards for World Theater. A fair number of the picks on Neal’s list are performers and productions from the Philadelphia area.

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ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD (Wilma): A contemporary classic, in three parts

Michael Fisher May 29, 2015 No Comments

Tom Stoppard’s ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD is perhaps the most ubiquitous work of postmodern drama.

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HAMLET (Wilma): Blanka Zizka’s daring production amazes while keeping its distance

Kathryn Osenlund April 6, 2015 No Comments

Not unlike the U.S. Constitution, HAMLET endures partly because its imperfections and spaces allow for different ways to read it.

View More HAMLET (Wilma): Blanka Zizka’s daring production amazes while keeping its distance
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Shakespeare vs Stoppard: Exploring the Wilma’s dream pairing of HAMLET and ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD

Christopher Munden March 23, 2015 1 Comment

Two of the best plays in the English language share most of the same characters and much of the same dialog. The Wilma is doing them in successive productions.

View More Shakespeare vs Stoppard: Exploring the Wilma’s dream pairing of HAMLET and ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD
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Theater Artists Making Beautiful Music in NY and Philly

Debra Miller March 11, 2015 1 Comment

The theater community contains a wealth of multi-talented artists who are not only gifted actors, but also highly skilled singers, musicians, and composers.

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Interviews Theater

Classic Plays, Living Playwrights? Interview with Ian August, author of THE MOOR’S SON (PAC)

Katherine Fritz February 4, 2015 No Comments

Katherine Fritz sat down with Ian August to chat Shakespeare, history, and what it means to be the guy who says, “I think I’d like to write a sequel to Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus.”

View More Classic Plays, Living Playwrights? Interview with Ian August, author of THE MOOR’S SON (PAC)
The Loman family in EgoPo Classic Theater’s DEATH OF A SALESMAN: Ed Swidey (Willy), Mary Lee Bednarek (Linda), Sean Lally (Biff), and Kevin Chick (Happy). Photo by David Cimetta
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DEATH OF A SALESMAN (EgoPo): A Jewish take on the classic of American theater

Christopher Munden October 27, 2014 No Comments

DEATH OF A SALESMAN is often seen as a cultural comment on the American Dream, in EgoPo’s production it is a moving look at a man, his son, and their personal tragedies.

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Brooke Fitzgerald, Katherine Perry and Cindy Spitko in Ed Swidey's mEEp.
Previews Theater

The Return of the mEEps (White Pines)

Christopher Munden May 8, 2014 No Comments

Ed Swidey’s mEEps return for a one-night only show at White Pines place in Elkins Park, May 9, 2014.

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GINT (EgoPo): Ibsen as American folklorist

Christopher Munden May 5, 2014 1 Comment

Romulus Linney’s GINT, now in an engaging staging by EgoPo Productions, does an admirable job of translating this modernist classic for contemporary audiences. Linney reworks the story so it seems to have been lifted straight from the annals of American folklore.

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