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Philly Fringe review: ‘Antihero’

Here’s what you get when you mix over-hyped masculinity, comic book heroes and the Philadelphia Parking Authority: the sock-’ ...

10 years ago

 Ethan Lipkin (left) and David Stanger in the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium's production of
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Philly Fringe reviews: Franz Kafka’s ‘The Castle’ and ‘Saint Joan, Betrayed’

FRANZ KAFKA’S “THE CASTLE.” Franz Kafka’s unfinished novel, which was completed by his editor an ...

10 years ago

 (Image courtesy of Egopo.org)
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Philly Fringe review: ‘A Doll’s House’

Lots of girls hold a doll in each hand and make up stories, but only Mackenzie Maula holds her dolls while reciting a version of Henrik I ...

10 years ago

 The cast performs Pig Iron Theatre Company's
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Philly Fringe review: ‘Pay Up’

Pig Iron Theatre Company’s inventive “Pay Up,” a flip take on money and value that was the runaway hit of the Philly Fr ...

10 years ago

 The cast of Pig Iron Theater Company's
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Philly’s Fringe festival begins to expand, plus some picks

This is the year of the expanded Fringe. The Philly Fringe festival – now officially called FringeArts – has not just a new name, but ...

10 years ago

 Marsha Mason (left), David Garrison and Marilu Henner in
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Review: The ‘Allergist’s Wife’ breathes freely

Boyd Gaines is an actor in films, but with four Tonys—his most recent for his role in the revival of “Gypsy”—his career h ...

10 years ago

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Review: ‘Macbeth’ as a stage company’s added attraction

The no-nonsense staging and smooth interpretation that Commonwealth Classic Theater Company is giving “Macbeth” in West Phila ...

10 years ago

 In Mauckingbird Theatre Company's version of
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Review: A gender-swapped ‘Earnest,’ in all but name

A decade or so back, a stage production that bent the genders of that most delicious boy-chases-girl comedy, “The Importance of Bei ...

10 years ago

 From left, Merci Lyons-Cox, Mary Beth Shrader, Linda Schapley and Jackie Gordon in
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Review: Then and now, the lesbians of ‘Cold’

The Bird Hole, a fictional lesbian bar where the entire 90 minutes of the new play “Cold,” is set in a single scene, was once ...

10 years ago

 Martha Graham Cracker, who is sometimes called Dito van Reigersberg, in song and walking through the audience at her 8th Anniversary Show, Thursday at L'Etage. (Howard Shapiro/for NewsWorks)
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Review: Martha Graham Cracker, a Philadelphia institution 8 years running

Philadelphia drag performer Martha Graham Cracker celebrated eight years of kooky, and maybe kinky, performances Thursday night. Her ...

10 years ago

 Erin Partin and Blake Ellis in Shakespeare's
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Review: ‘Measure for Measure’ and a sense of proportion

And now, a special summer nod to Fontaine Syer, the director who has done something wonderful at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival fo ...

10 years ago

 Chris McCarrell and Chelsea Packard in Buck County Playhouse's
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Review: Sex and angst in the ‘Summer of ’42’

Chelsea Packard is a lovely woman with a big singing voice, and also the best reason to go see the musical version of “Summer of ...

10 years ago

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Review: In ‘The Tempest,’ every man for herself

There’s plenty of magic afoot on the far-out island where the sorcerer Prospero stirs up “The Tempest” that is the ...

10 years ago

 Marcia Saunders in People's Light & Theatre Company's
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Review: ‘Noises Off’ and on, too

By now Michael Frayn’s farce about a dumb troupe of actors called “Noises Off,” which opened in Britain in 1982 and hit ...

10 years ago

 Erin Partin, left, and Jim Helsinger as  Lady Bracknell, in
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Review: ‘The Importance of Being Earnest,’ earnestly

For a play as juicy as Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” – among the greatest comedies in our language ...

10 years ago

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