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'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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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'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.
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'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.
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'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.
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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.
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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.
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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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