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Quince Productions’ ‘Rodeo’
Something different from Quince
Quince Productions takes a break from gay-themed plays for Philip Dawkins's unashamedly silly Western.
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'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.
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'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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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'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.
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