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TRAVESTIES (Lantern): A play of ideas married to farce

Toby Zinman September 15, 2022 1 Comment

Tom Stoppard’s newest play Leopoldstadt is coming to New York, and once again he is being talked about as if he were the second coming…

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FABULATION, OR THE RE-EDUCATION OF UNDINE (Lantern): A funny play with a serious agenda

Toby Zinman June 10, 2022 No Comments

Lynn Nottage knows how to “sustain the complexity” so that this funny play with a serious agenda works

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KING LEAR (Quintessence): England at his feet

Sarah Paulos March 25, 2019 No Comments

As Lear, Robert Jason Jackson is “every inch a king.

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Revisiting Pinter’s BETRAYAL: A commentary

Kathryn Osenlund January 22, 2019 No Comments

An attempt to detangle this nine-scene play that’s designed to move backwards

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BETRAYAL (Lantern): Reversal of fortunes

Christopher Munden January 17, 2019 No Comments

Pinter’s use of reverse chronology highlights depths beyond the quiet drama and sedate setting.

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HOPE AND GRAVITY (1812 Productions): “Even the lightest things come crashing back down to earth.”

Kathryn Osenlund May 6, 2018 4 Comments

There are many good comedies out there, but not many where the weight of tragedy crests and wanes beneath the laughter.

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Why Wait? Director Ken Marini talks about Quintessence Theatre’s brilliant WAITING FOR GODOT

Henrik Eger February 22, 2018 4 Comments

Quintessence Theatre’s production of WAITING FOR GODOT just closed. Henrik Eger spoke to the director about his background and his experiences directing Samuel Beckett’s classic.

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WAITING FOR GODOT (Quintessence): Really absurd

Christopher Munden February 12, 2018 No Comments

Quintessence Theatre Group’s WAITING FOR GODOT strikes a balance between humor and pathos, between realism and ridiculousness.

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MY FAIR LADY (Quintessence): A splendid holiday gift

Kathryn Osenlund November 22, 2017 2 Comments

A jubilant mix of beautiful music and songs, dancing, magic, social politics… and elocution

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IPHIGENIA AT AULIS (PAC): 2017 Fringe review

Christopher Munden September 13, 2017 No Comments

If there’s an ideal company to introduce works of classical theater, it’s the Philadelphia Artists’ Collective

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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 BROKEN HEART (Quintessence): Dark matter

Kathryn Osenlund April 7, 2017 No Comments

Melancholy John Ford was more ‘himself’ and less ‘Shakespearean’ than other less bold Cavalier dramatists.

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Theater in Sketch: MOTHER COURAGE

Chuck Schultz October 24, 2016 No Comments

Some sketches of some Brecht.

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MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN (Quintessence): Epic theater!

Lisa Panzer October 18, 2016 1 Comment

Quintessence Theatre brings to life a beautifully staged, truly epic production of Bertolt Brecht’s MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN, as brilliantly directed by Alexander Burns.

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DOCTOR FAUSTUS (Quintessence): If you want to know everything, go to hell

Kathryn Osenlund April 5, 2016 No Comments

A remarkably original and gloriously entertaining version of the Marlowe play.

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SAINT JOAN (Quintessence): The Maid’s new clothes

Lisa Panzer March 23, 2016 No Comments

George Bernard Shaw’s play is presented in rich tonalities of color, light, positioning, and sound. It is wide awake.

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THE MANDRAKE (Quintessence): A Machiavellian sex satire

Lisa Panzer October 23, 2015 No Comments

What could be so funny in a play written nearly 500 years ago? There is something for everyone to either laugh or balk at in this bawdy production of a play by Machiavelli.

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ROMEO AND JULIET (Quintessence): What fray was here?

Christopher Munden October 7, 2015 No Comments

In the eyes of director Alexander Burns this doomed romance never stood a chance.

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THE THREE MUSKETEERS (Quintessence): Swordplay and horseplay combine in a breezy adaptation

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper May 2, 2015 No Comments

As always with an Alexander Burns production, imagery is rife, props are creative, and jokes come as much from sight gags as from dialogue.

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