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Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz find forbidden love. (Photo by Despina Spirou)

'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.
Angela Harmon

Angela Harmon

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Where the boys are: Dugan, Meehan and Rishard. (Photo by Jason Lindner)

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.
Mark Cofta

Mark Cofta

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It takes three to make a thing go right. (Photo courtesy of The Mechanical Theater)

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.
Mark Cofta

Mark Cofta

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Meg Rumsey-Lasersohn and Richard Chan explore some possibilities. (Photo by Plate3.org)

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.'
Mark Cofta

Mark Cofta

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Joe Guzman and Joanna Liao. (Photo by Mark Garvin)

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.
Naomi Orwin

Naomi Orwin

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Zoran Kovcic, Madalyn St. John, Mark Swift, and Jared Reed. (Photo by Ashley Labonde)

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.
Mark Cofta

Mark Cofta

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'<em>The Plough and the Stars</em>' Watermeier and Bonito. (Photo courtesy of Irish Heritage Theatre)

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.
Mark Cofta

Mark Cofta

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A Bigger Splash, with Schoenaerts, Swinton, Johnson, and Fiennes. (Photo courtesy of Fox Searchlight films)

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.
Concha Alborg

Concha Alborg

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Procaccino (left), Gatling: When opposites attract. (Photo: Paola Nogueras, courtesy of Philadelphia Theatre Company)

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.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

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Danielle Williamson and company. (Photo by Mark Garvin)

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.
Naomi Orwin

Naomi Orwin

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