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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Tag: Moliere
Theater in Sketch: ENTER LAUGHING (Players Club of Swarthmore)
This meta-play within a play is clever and ridiculous.
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ENTER LAUGHING (Players Club of Swarthmore): Harvesting the humor in humiliation
Leave cynicism in the lobby and pick it up later
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Sixty Years of Philadelphia Theater: Interview with playwright Walt Vail
Tracing 60 years of theater history in Philadelphia through the eyes of one man.
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There’s No Business Like…: Tempesta di Mare presents 17th-century theater music
When baroque music fell out of fashion centuries ago, the original music for 17th century theater stopped accompanying even much-revived plays.
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THE MISANTHROPE (Quintessence): What’s not to like?
I hope one day to see (and understand) a Moliere play in the original French, though as I’m not doing anything about that desire except…
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A Queer Midsummer Night’s Dream
Mauckingbird Theatre Company presents a gender-bent look at Shakespeare’s famous play for a woman wert thou first created; Till Nature, as she wrought thee, fell…
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No Deceit: Lantern Theater’s Scapin is a Treat
A classic work of comic literature, a joyous reworking by one of the best clowns in modern theater, an imaginative staging by a top-class Philadelphia…
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