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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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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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