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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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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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