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'The Lobster,' by writer-director Yorgos Lanthimos
Love in the time of The Lobster
'The Lobster's' central question sounds hypothetical: If you were turned into an animal because you couldn't find love, what animal would you be? In Yorgos Lanthimos' film, the answer can change your life.
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Young Jean Lee's 'Straight White Men' at InterAct Theatre Company
A play more nuanced than its title suggests
Young Jean Lee's 'Straight White Men' uses a family situation to probe larger issues about privilege and power.
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The Mechanical Theater presents Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet'
Short summer Shakespeare
The Mechanical Theater's 'Romeo and Juliet' makes the play a bite-sized comedy while maintaining its tragic proportions.
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Tiny Dynamite's A Play, a Pie, and a Pint, with David Grieg's 'Brewers Fayre'
A big adventure from Tiny Dynamite
Tiny Dynamite's A Play, A Pie, and A Pint satisfies with David Greig's clever relationship comedy 'Brewers Fayre.'
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Naomi Iizuki's '36 Views,' at Lantern Theater Company
36 Views: Making smart women cry
'36 Views' is a smart play about a smart woman who lets passion undermine scholarship and pays the price. Men, it seems, can combine business and sex and succeed; women end up crying.
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Hedgerow Theatre's 'The Servant of Two Masters' by Carlo Goldoni
This Servant serves up good fun
'The Servant of Two Masters' shows that Goldoni's old play feels new and young in the right hands.
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Irish Heritage Theatre's 'The Plough and the Stars,' by Sean O'Casey
Reaching for the stars, remaining earthbound
The Irish Heritage Theatre's production of Sean O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars aims high but misses. That's still better than aiming low.
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Luca Guadagnino's 'A Bigger Splash'
Making waves from France to Sicily
An Italian remake of Jacques Deray's 1969 'La Piscine,' Luca Guadagnino's 'A Bigger Splash' brings star power, heat, intrigue, and lust to a Sicilian island.
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Lucas Hnath’s ‘Hillary and Clinton’ at Philadelphia Theatre Company (first review)
Lonely at the top
Lucas Hnath’s inventive 'Hillary and Clinton' takes us on an imaginary journey into the private life of a married couple who just happen to be past and putatively future White House residents.
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Walnut Street Theatre's 'Sister Act'
Plenty of nunsense with a Philly flair
A rousing, feel-good musical that fills the Walnut Street Theatre with tapping feet. Not quite the same as the movie, the show has its own quirky logic that leaves the audience cheering for everyone.
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