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Liz Duffy's 'Or,' at Hedgerow Theatre
Farcical fun and serious themes in Restoration England
Most of us don’t know anything about 17th-century playwright Aphra Behn, but we should, as Hedgerow Theatre’s strong production of Or, shows.
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Iron Age presents Caleb Lewis's 'Dogfall'
War spans the century
Iron Age stays in Center City for Dogfall, an unusual drama about war's human costs.
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Ike Holter's "Exit Strategy" by PTC (second review)
A play that educates on modern inner-city schools
Ike Holter’s play about a failing Chicago school, Exit Strategy, hits close to home in the Philadelphia Theatre Company’s superb production.
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'Wait Until Dark' at the University of Delaware
Enjoy being afraid in the dark
Stage thrillers work best when we let them be plays and not movies, as Wait Until Dark shows.
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Gogol's 'Inspector General' by Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium (second review)
Satire without a clear target
The Inspector General is fun, but ignores deserving modern targets for its satire.
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Gogol's 'Inspector General' by Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium (1st review)
Who's corrupt?
Invited to dance, the Inspector General extends his palm, and the more it is greased, the greedier he grows, until he gets on his horse and gallops away.
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'The It Girl' by Simpatico Theatre Project (second review)
Giving voice to a silent star
Clara Bow was “the It Girl,” a flapper with an indefinable sexual something, but we know very little else about her. In reviving her, do we risk turning her into one more cliché of the starlet victimized by the system? Are we using her for our own purposes and once again robbing her of her own voice?
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National Theatre Live broadcast of 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses'
A battlefield of the sexes
Christopher Hampton’s devastating play about sex and power is set in pre-revolutionary France, but is relevant today.
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Ike Holter’s ‘Exit Strategy’ by PTC (first review)
Blackboard jungle, redeemed
Everyone seems to agree that America’s urban public education system is broken. Ike Holter’s Exit Strategy suggests that today’s preferred cures may be worse than the disease.
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'The It Girl' by Simpatico Theatre Project
The plight of the It Girl, then and now
Girls just wanna have fun, says Simpatico Theatre Project’s world premiere of The It Girl, but it isn’t easy. Sometimes respect and equality seem damn near impossible.
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