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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Lantern): Still a joy

Kathryn Osenlund February 25, 2025 No Comments

A script needs life breathed into it and that’s what happens with an inspired director, designers, and talented versatile actors.

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Cyrano De Bergerac (Quintessence): 60-second review

Kathryn Osenlund October 18, 2024 No Comments

French playwright Edmond Rostand’s story about a brilliant man endowed with a large nose is a work of fiction.

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THE COMEDY OF ERRORS (Lantern): Twins, shipwreck, mistaken identity, romance gone awry

Kathryn Osenlund May 28, 2024 No Comments

One of Shakespeare’s greatest hits, his first comedy, The Comedy of Errors, is playing at the Lantern Theater Company until June 16. Twins, shipwreck, mistaken…

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TWELFTH NIGHT (Lantern): Some are born great

Kathryn Osenlund June 2, 2023 1 Comment

Shakespeare wrote Twelfth Night (1599-1600), one of his few fantasy plays, immediately before he penned his incomparable Hamlet (1600-1601).  As Artistic Director Charles McMahon describes…

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TWELFTH NIGHT (Lantern): Shall we set about some revels?

Toby Zinman May 29, 2023 No Comments

“Shall we set about some revels?” Yes!  The battle begins: Lantern Theater Company opened its excellent and enjoyable production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night; soon to…

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CLYDE’S (Arden): All the ingredients are here

Toby Zinman February 5, 2023 No Comments

Terrific actors playing lovable characters, important issues, snappy dialogue, and plenty of comedy

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EVERYTHING IS WONDERFUL (PTC): 60-second review

Joshua Herren February 27, 2020 2 Comments

Philadelphia Theatre Company’s production of Chelsea Marcantel’s emotional and thought-provoking Everything is Wonderful is gorgeous

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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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Arden Charlotte's Web
Features Theater

Theater in Sketch: CHARLOTTE’S WEB (Arden Theatre)

Chuck Schultz January 25, 2019 No Comments

Looking at Arden Childrens Theater in words and sketch

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Sweat Philadelphia theater review
Reviews Theater

SWEAT (PTC): What’s the matter with Reading?

Christopher Munden October 19, 2018 No Comments

Why does SWEAT appeal to us, as aging urban middle-to-upper-to-upper-upper-class theatergoers? Do we hope to understand? Relate? Gawk? What do we applaud?

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Theater of the Extreme: Amanda Schoonover looks back on PHAEDRA’S LOVE

Henrik Eger October 13, 2018 No Comments

Henrik Eger talks to actor Amanda Schoonover about Sarah Kane and her career.

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THE TEMPEST (Lantern): Sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not

Toby Zinman March 23, 2018 No Comments

Lantern Theater’s production of THE TEMPEST, Shakespeare’s last play, is an enjoyable, modest show, full of comedy and romance and the gentle spirit of human forgiveness.

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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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Features Theater

2017 Barrymore nominees: In their own words

Cameron Kelsall August 24, 2017 1 Comment

Phindie asked this year’s crop of Barrymore Award nominees about their experience of being nominated.

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Features Theater

Theater in Sketch: HOW TO USE A KNIFE (InterAct)

Chuck Schultz June 17, 2017 No Comments

The InterAct Theater goes behind the scenes of a working kitchen

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HOW TO USE A KNIFE (InterAct): A sharp new play

Toby Zinman June 1, 2017 No Comments

Scene one is hilarious; scene two wipes the smile right off your face.

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AS YOU LIKE IT (Lantern): As you’ve never seen it!

Debra Miller March 18, 2016 2 Comments

A cross-temporal interpretation of Shakespeare’s Elizabethan classic injects passages of current expressions and gestures, slapstick, and original music into the well-known pastoral rom-com.

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DRACULA (Hedgerow): Raising the stakes

Lisa Panzer October 27, 2015 No Comments

This not your usual resurrection of the Dracula story of seducing young women to join him in the realm of the undead.

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RAGE OF ACHILLES (CCTC): The absurdity and tragedy of war

Debra Miller August 9, 2015 No Comments

Commonwealth Classic Theatre presents a world-premiere production of Paul Parente’s meaningful tragicomedy on the absurdities and horrors of war, inspired by the events and characters from Homer’s Iliad.

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