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INTO THE WOODS (Arden): A Sondheim show for grown-ups

Toby Zinman June 13, 2022 No Comments

No woods. No cutesy pop-up book set. Just three hours of pure musical theater pleasure: gorgeous melodies, clever lyrics, profound ideas and a dream cast.…

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OUTSIDE MULLINGAR (DTC): An Irish love story

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper February 17, 2020 No Comments

A love story in which the course of love would run smooth if it weren’t for stubbornness, misunderstanding, and Irish prudery

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FUN HOME (Arden Theatre): LOL misery

Kathryn Osenlund May 29, 2018 2 Comments

The Bechdel family has a funeral home (dubbed Fun Home by the kids) and also a not-fun family home.

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Pantomine in Sketch: SLEEPING BEAUTY (People’s Light)

Chuck Schultz December 28, 2016 2 Comments

Sleeping Beauty the Musical Panto by Peter Pryor and Samantha Reading expresses an ageless story. It is an artistic exploration into space, time, and sound.

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SLEEPING BEAUTY (People’s Light): Festive wake-up

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper December 4, 2016 No Comments

The Grimmish fairy tale kingdom is transformed to Paoli Shoals, a town depressed by the collapse of a once-thriving recording industry

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NORA (DTC): A riveting production of a feminist classic

Debra Miller February 9, 2015 No Comments

Ingmar Bergman’s 1981 stage adaptation of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House is pared-down, focused, and intense. By reducing Ibsen’s original lengthy script by nearly half, Bergman endows the 19th-century feminist milestone with a post-modern clarity and import.qD

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Christopher Patrick Mullen as Merlyn and Susan McKey as Archimedes in ARTHUR AND THE TALE OF THE RED DRAGON at People’s Light (Photo caption: Mark Garvin)
Reviews Theater

ARTHUR AND THE TALE OF THE RED DRAGON: A MUSICAL PANTO (People’s Light): Coming of age in the Middle Ages

Debra Miller November 24, 2014 No Comments

The family friendly holiday panto takes a wacky look at the growing pains of the future King Arthur as he faces the challenges of life, learning, and leadership.

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Mauckingbird Presents Staged Readings of Two Gay Milestones

Debra Miller August 27, 2014 No Comments

Two groundbreaking plays in the history of queer theater–Lillian Hellman’s THE CHILDREN’S HOUR and Mart Crowley’s THE BOYS IN THE BAND—will be presented in the format of staged readings over the next two weekends by Mauckingbird Theatre Company.

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CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION (Theatre Horizon): All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women…

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper March 10, 2014 No Comments

Life doesn’t imitate art as much as combine with it as Baker’s play, and Matthew Decker’s production of it for Theatre Horizon, sneaks up on you and moves you.

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Kim Carson stars in People’s Light & Theatre Company’s CINDERELLA (Photo credit: Mark Garvin)
Reviews Theater

CINDERELLA (People’s Light): The Return of an Award-Winning Panto

Debra Miller December 9, 2013 No Comments

In celebration of its tenth anniversary season of wintertime pantos People’s Light & Theatre Company in Malvern is presenting a remount of CINDERELLA, its most acclaimed panto to date.

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Best of Philadelphia Theater, 2009-2010

Christopher Munden August 4, 2010 2 Comments

August 2 saw the announcement of the 2010 Barrymore Awards. I only saw about 25 plays by 10 companies this season, so my pool of…

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A Demonic Tour de Force: The Screwtape Letters Returns to the Lantern Theater Company

Christopher Munden May 27, 2010 No Comments

C.S. Lewis‘s The Screwtape Letters is more overtly religious than his allegorical children’s books. But just as an appreciation for the Narnia tales does not require a…

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