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FAITH HEALER (Lantern): Powerful storytelling

Kathryn Osenlund February 13, 2024 1 Comment

The Lantern Theater’s performance of Faith Healer, by Brian Friel is presented as four monologues that represent three points of view, those of Frank Hardy…

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THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (1812): Fall-off-your-chair hilarity

Toby Zinman May 6, 2023 No Comments

This is not the admiring smirk or a contemptuous Ha-ha!, but fall-off-your-chair, eye-mopping hilarity.

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THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT (Lantern): Conveying a larger truth

Toby Zinman February 10, 2023 No Comments

In the political news in the past few years, the concern has been not with the lifespan of facts, but the lifespan of lies

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What’s going on behind the scenes?: Interview with Bernard Havard on working with his creative team at the Walnut Street Theatre

Henrik Eger February 20, 2020 No Comments

Bernard Havard shares his experiences with his creative team for A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE by Oscar Wilde: 

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As if Oscar Wilde himself had arrived on the Walnut stage: Interview with Bernard Havard on casting and working with his actors

Henrik Eger February 18, 2020 No Comments

Part 2 of Henrik Eger’s interview with Walnut Theatre head Bernard Havard

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Risks can lead to financial loss: Interview with Bernard Havard on A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE at the Walnut Street Theatre

Henrik Eger February 17, 2020 No Comments

Bernard Havard discusses the risks of running a theater as few producers and directors would be willing to

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An Important Role: Karen Peakes on playing Wilde at the Walnut

Debra Danese February 3, 2020 No Comments

Karen Peakes is portraying the sassy, outspoken Mrs. Allonby in A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE at the Walnut

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A Woman of No Importance Walnut review
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A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE (Walnut Street): Dropping a stream of bon mots from the sofa

Kathryn Osenlund January 30, 2020 1 Comment

How wonderful that we have Oscar Wilde’s works and can go and see his plays

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A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE (Walnut Street): 60-second review

Joshua Herren January 28, 2020 No Comments

A play of little importance

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Philadelphia Theater through the eyes of J. Cooper Robb, Part 1: 2002–2003

Henrik Eger August 31, 2019 No Comments

Remembering Philadelphia theater history through the eyes of a venerable theater reviewer.

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Theater in Sketch: THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME (Walnut Street)

Chuck Schultz June 23, 2019 No Comments

A review in words and sketch by Chuck Schultz and Yumna Tolaimate

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Baskerville Walnut Street review
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BASKERVILLE: A SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY (Walnut Street): Ken Ludwig’s version turns the story on its head

Kathryn Osenlund January 15, 2018 2 Comments

An ancestral manor, a family curse, a fiend: Ken Ludwig’s version turns this Sherlock Holmes story on its head.

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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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BLITHE SPIRIT (PA Shakes): 60-second review

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper August 1, 2016 No Comments

Nothing beats watching actors at the top of their game biting into crunchy material and whipping it into a tasty delight.

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THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (PA Shakes): Shrewd Shakespeare

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper July 27, 2016 No Comments

A good production that benefits most when it puts farce aside and concentrates on two people using their will to create partnership and harmony

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Taken Hostage By a Play: Interview with Ian Merrill Peakes on THE INVISIBLE HAND

Henrik Eger June 4, 2016 No Comments

Theatre Exile’s production of THE INVISIBLE HAND features an all-star creative team. We interviewed them.

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THE INVISIBLE HAND (Theatre Exile): A gripping, thinking person’s play about the wages of self-interest

Kathryn Osenlund May 24, 2016 4 Comments

To call THE INVISIBLE HAND dramatic would be an understatement.

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[podcast] J. Paul Nicholas on THE INVISIBLE HAND

Darnelle Radford for REP Radio May 23, 2016 No Comments

J. Paul Nicholas on the politics and conversations that surround this well-executed production.

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Aaron Cromie and Ian Merrill Peakes in Walnut Street Theatre’s PETER AND THE STARCATCHER (Photo credit: Mark Garvin).
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PETER AND THE STARCATCHER (Walnut): A wacky look at the backstory of Peter Pan

Debra Miller March 24, 2016 1 Comment

An outstanding ensemble recounts the backstory of Peter Pan in a madcap prequel with music.

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HARVEY (Walnut): Burns slow, then hops right along

Kaitlyn Foti January 31, 2016 No Comments

The story is a little dated, but that is part of its charm, like watching a Norman Rockwell painting come to life.

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