Before he became a celebrated playwright, Jean-Baptiste Poquelan was a poor thing in a touring shoestring theater company. Although he had wanted to be a…
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THE TEMPEST (Quintessence): Full of magic
There’s magic and mystery as wonderfully costumed characters come alive to dance, sing, cavort, wrestle, draw swords, threaten violence, and show mercy
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TRAVESTIES (Lantern): A play of ideas married to farce
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
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
As Lear, Robert Jason Jackson is “every inch a king.
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Revisiting Pinter’s BETRAYAL: A commentary
An attempt to detangle this nine-scene play that’s designed to move backwards
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BETRAYAL (Lantern): Reversal of fortunes
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.”
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
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
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
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
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
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
Melancholy John Ford was more ‘himself’ and less ‘Shakespearean’ than other less bold Cavalier dramatists.
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Theater in Sketch: MOTHER COURAGE
Some sketches of some Brecht.
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MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN (Quintessence): Epic theater!
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
A remarkably original and gloriously entertaining version of the Marlowe play.
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SAINT JOAN (Quintessence): The Maid’s new clothes
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
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?
In the eyes of director Alexander Burns this doomed romance never stood a chance.
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