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Boys will be boys, and so will girls. (Photo by Paola Nogueras)

'A Wonderful Noise' by Hollinger and Lehmkuhl

Barbershop nostalgia

December 7, 1941, the “date that will live in infamy,” also was the day of the national competition of barbershop quartets. That’s the premise of the new musical comedy by Michael Hollinger and Vance Lehmkuhl in which women try to penetrate an all-male organization.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

Articles 2 minute read
Trying to save an interesting mess. Leonard and Chalamet. (Photo by Joan Marcus)

'Prodigal Son' and 'The Humans' in New York

Growing up and growing older

Two new plays of uncommon power — Prodigal Son and The Humans — will, I hope, make it from Broadway to Broad Street

Carol Rocamora

Articles 4 minute read
Real-time intimacy: Lyons-Cox  and Scammell. (Photo by Robert Hakalski)

Kim Davies's ‘Smoke’ at Theatre Exile (first review)

You get to choose what happens to you

Kim Davies's Smoke challenges audiences to see disturbing sex — and, perhaps, to see beyond it.
Mark Cofta

Mark Cofta

Articles 3 minute read
Balletic intensity: Volin and Frederick. (Photo by Mark Garvin)

John Logan's 'Red' at the Walnut Street Theatre

A lesson in how to look at art

Is red a color, is it a feeling? John Logan’s Red challenges us to go deeper into what it means to really look at art for both the artist and the audience.
Naomi Orwin

Naomi Orwin

Articles 4 minute read
An aria of profanity and poetry: Emily R. Johnson in “Spine.” (Photo by Katie Ring)

Clara Brennan's 'Spine' by Inis Nua

Celebrating libraries and storytelling

Clara Brennan's Spine, one of those wonderful U.K. fictional monologues, captivates with an unlikely and inspirational tale.
Mark Cofta

Mark Cofta

Articles 3 minute read
Three women talking — but about what? Bissell, Inie-Richards, McKey. (Photo by Mark Garvin)

'Sense and Sensibility' at People's Light (second review)

Can Jane Austen pass the Bechdel test?

Sense and Sensibility fails the popular test about women characters in fiction, but succeeds in many other ways.
Mark Cofta

Mark Cofta

Articles 3 minute read
Comic anarchy with singing and dancing

'Plutus' by Aristophanes at Plays and Players

Wealth and poverty for laughs

The youthful cast of Once More Theater embody high spirits, belly laughs, clever off-center meditations, and all-around comic anarchy in Aristophanes’s Plutus.

Richard da Silva

Articles 2 minute read
A woman and a man in lavish Regency costumes are coming close to kissing.

'Sense and Sensibility' at People's Light

A rocky road to marriage

People's Light stages the regional premiere of a fine adaptation of Jane Austen's beloved novel.

Bill Murphy

Articles 2 minute read
"If music be the food of love, give me excess of it." (Photo by Robert Day)

Filter Theatre's 'Twelfth Night'

A rollicking rock ’n’ roll ‘Twelfth Night’

Filter Theatre's touring Twelfth Night provides musical heat and clownish jollity in a cold February week.
Mark Cofta

Mark Cofta

Articles 2 minute read
The only student in sight: Pierce (right), with Ryan Spahn. (Photo by Mark Garvin)

Ike Holter's "Exit Strategy" by PTC (third review)

Reconstruction my ass!

In Exit Strategy, Ike Holter effectively conveys the frustration of massive school closings, which have had a damaging effect on inner city school systems — and on those who rely on them.
Rhonda Davis

Rhonda Davis

Articles 2 minute read