Matt Pfeiffer talks love of Shakespeare and SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
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Theater in Sketch: LYDIE BREEZE Part 3: MADAKET ROAD (EgoPo)
The EgoPo Classical Theater’s production of John Guare’s Lydie Breeze part III was asking the fundamental question, “what is ‘it’.”
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LYDIE BREEZE PART 2: AIPOTU (EgoPo): Seeking utopia
EgoPo’s presentation of John Guare’s Lydie Breeze continues with a look at a New England utopia.
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LYDIE BREEZE PART ONE: COLD HARBOR (EgoPo): Ambitious, sprawling, but emotionally hollow
COLD HARBOR is fast-paced and skillfully produced, with a large, stylistically diverse cast, but at its emotional core it is stiff and distant.
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2018 Theater Preview: EgoPo Classic Theatre
EgoPo Classic Theatre focuses its 2017/18 series on the work of John Guare with the world premiere of Guare’s Lydie Breeze Trilogy as one fluid theatrical experience.
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PROJECT DAWN (People’s Light): The hug or the hammer
A well-intentioned but dull play about an important legal program in Philadelphia.
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SEAGULL (EgoPo): A comedy of torn hearts and thwarted dreams
The pathetically unfulfilled romantic expectations! The sad characters and absurd human comedy! EgoPo nails it, and beautifully. Sketches by Chuck Schultz.
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The Power of the Invisible Hand: Interview with Anthony Mustafa Adair as Dar, a Pakistani captor, at Theatre Exile
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
To call THE INVISIBLE HAND dramatic would be an understatement.
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THE WOMEN (EgoPo): An engaging show turns a trifle into a treatise
Clare Boothe Luce saw her 1936 play as a critique of certain malicious denizens of Park Avenue. Director Lane Savadove sees more in it.
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BASKERVILLE: A SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY (PTC): A wacky spoof on a classic novel
An entertaining spoof of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Victorian classic injects humor and surprises into the well-known mystery.
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OUTSIDE MULLINGAR (PTC): Land, loss, and love in rural Ireland
John Patrick Shanley’s rom-com charmer is a play about feelings, expressed with an Irish lilt by two generations of neighbors in the Emerald Isle
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GINT (EgoPo): Ibsen as American folklorist
Romulus Linney’s GINT, now in an engaging staging by EgoPo Productions, does an admirable job of translating this modernist classic for contemporary audiences. Linney reworks the story so it seems to have been lifted straight from the annals of American folklore.
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BEAUTIFUL THING (Mauckingbird): Boy meets boy and love conquers all
To mark the 20th anniversary of BEAUTIFUL THING, Mauckingbird Theatre Company, dedicated to gay-themed work, begins its 2014 season with a production of English playwright…
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COCK (Theatre Exile): A Provocative Fight for Love and Identity
Finding love and self-knowledge beyond the fixed categories of sexual identity (gay, straight, or bi) is the central theme of Michael Bartlett’s COCK, now in…
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