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Waiting For Lefty (Quintessence): On the side of angels but not art

Kathryn Osenlund January 24, 2023 No Comments

This show has history. Odets, a voice for his disinherited generation was born in Philadelphia.

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BOX CLEVER (Inis Nua): 60-second review

Rudolf Schreiber February 9, 2019 1 Comment

With BOX CLEVER, Inis Nua has done the impossible: make bureaucracy theatrical.

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DUBLIN BY LAMPLIGHT (Inis Nua / Drexel MPiRP): Irish theater for the theatrical

Dorie Byrne November 18, 2016 No Comments

Inis Nua Theatre Company’s 2011 breakout hit DUBLIN BY LAMPLIGHT returns to the stage in partnership with Drexel University’s Mandell Professionals in Residence Project

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Upcoming Readings

Christopher Munden January 13, 2016 No Comments

  What: How Green Was My Valley with music by Roger Ames and book and lyrics by Elizabeth Bassine; The Gig with music, book, and lyrics by Doug Cohen;…

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HOOKED (Inis Nua): A pub play in a pub

Ninni Saajola October 14, 2015 No Comments

Entertaining for anyone looking for a fun and a little different night at the pub, or just an excuse to spend the night at the pub.

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Old Friends and Frequent Collaborators Get HOOKED! An interview with Tom Reing and Charlie DelMarcelle

Debra Miller October 7, 2015 No Comments

Director Tom Reing and actor Charlie DelMarcelle talk about their childhood, their collaborations, and Inis Nua’s upcoming production of HOOKED!

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THE CAPTIVE (PAC): 2015 Fringe review 5

Christopher Munden September 4, 2015 No Comments

Although it has lost the shock value (lesbianism!) it had in the 1920s, it is easy to see why PAC were attracted to this forgotten play.

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THE THREE MUSKETEERS (Quintessence): Swordplay and horseplay combine in a breezy adaptation

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper May 2, 2015 No Comments

As always with an Alexander Burns production, imagery is rife, props are creative, and jokes come as much from sight gags as from dialogue.

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VOICES OF A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES (Plays & Players): This time we have to succeed

Ninni Saajola January 30, 2015 No Comments

VOICES is not just provocative; it is full of infectious hope that this time, united, we really will succeed.

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TILL BIRNAM WOOD (John Schultz): Fringe Review 30

Debra Miller September 11, 2014 No Comments

One way to focus on the extraordinary eloquence and drama of Shakespeare’s language is to eliminate all visual distraction, and that is precisely what John Schultz has done in TILL BIRNAM WOOD—a rapid-fire 55-minute adaptation of Macbeth that is performed before a blindfolded audience.

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Presidential Theater: New City Stage Company concludes its season with THE WEST WING FESTIVAL

Christopher Munden May 15, 2014 No Comments

New City Stage Company concludes its season-long look at at the American political summit with THE WEST WING FESTIVAL, a series of (FREE!) staged readings at the Adrienne Theater Skybox.

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Josh Carpenter (as Marlow), Sonja Field (as Kate Hardcastle) in SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Photo by Alexander Burns.
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SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER (Quintessence): A contemporary 18th-century comedy

Julius Ferraro October 29, 2013 1 Comment

SHE STOOPS is an 18th-century comedy of manners and mistaken identities by Oliver Goldsmith. It is considered by many to be the most enduring of…

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HAMLET (Quintessence): Brevity is the soul of it

Christopher Munden October 16, 2013 2 Comments

Hip, fast-paced, with a frat-boy-cool lead: these aren’t usually phrases to describe HAMLET. But Quintessence Theatre Group’s heavily edited version takes a bare bodkin to Shakespeare’s story of revenge and existential crisis in the state of Denmark.

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