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Pinchbeck (left), Perry: If Shakespeare were a cowboy.... (Photo: Joihn Donges.)

Quince Productions’ ‘Rodeo’

Something different from Quince

Quince Productions takes a break from gay-themed plays for Philip Dawkins's unashamedly silly Western.
Mark Cofta

Mark Cofta

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The reality of their situation: Owens and Canales. (Photo by Alexander Iziliaev)

'An Octoroon' at the Wilma (second review)

"We only got each other"

The shared history portrayed in An Octoroon is inescapable, and it demands that whites and blacks confront it together.
Rhonda Davis

Rhonda Davis

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Succeeding in a challenging job: Maestro Amado.

'Spring Nights' by the Delaware Symphony Orchestra

Amo, Amas, Amado

After 13 years, David Amado’s love and devotion have transformed the Delaware Symphony Orchestra.
Margaret Darby

Margaret Darby

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Tennant as Richard II: Christlike, albeit with a few flaws. (Photo: Richard Termine.)

Shakespeare’s ’King and Country’ cycle in Brooklyn

A hollow crown, indeed

These productions of Shakespeare’s so-called “Henriad” offer a thrilling opportunity to see one of the world’s most celebrated theater companies at the top of its game, not to mention a total immersion in a turbulent chapter in British history (1393-1415) that resonates with lessons for today’s would-be kings.

Carol Rocamora

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Hell is all around us.

Quintessence Theatre's 'Doctor Faustus'

Better than we bargained for

Quintessence Theatre honors Christopher Marlowe’s dark play with humor and spectacle that doesn’t diminish the play’s serious themes.
Mark Cofta

Mark Cofta

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Tension and vitality: the Johannes Quartet

PCMS presents the Johannes Quartet

Making sparks fly

The Johannes Quartet showed its mettle in stimulating and sharp-edged performances across a broad repertory. This was one of the season’s best.
Robert Zaller

Robert Zaller

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More personal than his Yosemite paintings: 'Autumn Woods' by Albert Bierstadt.

The Poetry of Nature at the Brandywine River Museum

Glory be!

The Hudson River School painters take the viewer to some glorious distance in which beauty, religious faith, patriotism, and luminousness all compound into the promise of a future full of progress and improvements.

Michael Woods

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"There are no consequences": Ngo and Wood. (Photo by Kathryn Raines / PLATE 3)

Jennifer Haley's 'The Nether' at InterAct

A plausible near future

Theater science fiction is more like the literature than the movies; as The Nether shows, it can posit frightening futures extrapolated from what's happening today.
Mark Cofta

Mark Cofta

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What van Gogh saw in a Mediterranean coastal town. “Fishing Boats on the Beach,” 1888.

Lyric Fest presents letters set to music

Be careful what you tell artistic directors

Lyric Fest premieres nine new songs in a program suggested by a talkative reviewer.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

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Why was he banished?: Ralph Ineson  in “The Witch” (© 2016 - A24)

'The Witch' by Robert Eggers

A special kind of dread

Instead of jump scares, the increasing sense of dread in The Witch arises from the uncertainty of how people are going to behave.
Angela Harmon

Angela Harmon

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