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'A Single Shard' at People's Light & Theatre Company
A magical visit to a magical land
An imaginative, visually rich production of Linda Sue Park’s novel, adapted by Robert Schenkkan, is a wise fable for all ages, with a talented multi-ethnic cast.
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Inis Nua's 'The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning'
How to bully someone into treason
The American Premiere of Tim Price's drama 'The Radicalization of Bradley Manning' tries to psychologically connect the dots from Bradley Manning's childhood and social life to Wikileaks, but doesn't fill in all the blanks.
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Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’ on Broadway
Shaking up a classic
The special effects in Ivo Van Hove’s stunningly radical production of The Crucible threaten to overwhelm Arthur Miller’s eloquent plea for decency and integrity.
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Jennifer Childs’s ‘I Will Not Go Gently’ (2nd review)
Comedy as an antidote for aging
In I Will Not Go Gently, Jennifer Childs provides plenty of laughs about aging without ever addressing the critical question: How do you do it well?
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Jennifer Childs’s ‘I Will Not Go Gently’ (1st review)
Am I still relevant?
Aging is tough, but it beats the alternative. So goes the old joke. Jennifer Childs’s latest play and Ellensue Gross’s paintings provide fresher responses.
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Aeschylus’s ‘The Eumenides’ at the Penn Museum
A hot time in the old tomb
In The Eumenides, Aeschylus first captured that moment when pre-literate Greeks first turned away from revenge and looked instead to the goddess Athena for wisdom, justice and reason. It’s not a bad recipe for our present age of fear and anger.
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Ayckbourn’s ‘Things We Do For Love’ in Delaware
An absurdist with a grasp of real life
Think Alan Ayckbourn is the English Neil Simon? Think again. He's more like the English Anton Chekhov.
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Shakespeare Theatre’s ‘Twelfth Night’
The Bard turned upside down
Seen together in repertory, Shakespeare’s romantic comedy Twelfth Night and the tragic Macbeth are greater than the sum of their parts.
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Sophie Treadwell’s ‘Machinal’ by EgoPo (2nd review)
. . . But roses have thorns
In 1the 1920s the repressed protagonist of Machinal murdered her husband. Today’s women have found healthier outlets for their frustrations.
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Sophie Treadwell’s ‘Machinal’ by EgoPo (1st review)
Ground down by the urban machine
After nearly 90 years, Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal still packs its Expressionist message about the dehumanization of people — especially women — in a mechanized society.
Robert Zallerand Illustration by Mike Jackson
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