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They become whoever we are told they are: Wood, Johnson, and Ngo. (Photo by Mark Garvin)

'Shipwrecked! An Entertainment' by Donald Margulies

The lies we tell

Must everything be truth, or are we prepared to indulge fantastical stories just because they entertain? Or does believing fantasies sometimes have consequences?

Naomi Orwin

Oct 13, 2015 Articles 3 minute read

Rosalie (Samia Merritt, fourth from left) confronts Mary (Maggie Johnson, left). (Photo by Dave Sarrafian)

EgoPo's 'Children's Hour' by Lillian Hellman

The issues at the heart of Lillian Hellman’s Children’s Hour still resonate today, 80 years after the play was first produced. But what matters more — the hint of illicit love, or the choice to live on one’s own terms instead of settling for marriage?

Naomi Orwin

Oct 13, 2015 Articles 4 minute read

Mary (Corinna Burns) tells it like it is in “Hooked!” (photo by Katie Reing)

Inis Nua's 'Hooked!' at Fergie's Pub

We're hooked on Hooked!

Inis Nua's 12th season begins with Hooked!, a charming site-specific comedy at Fergie's Pub.

Mark Cofta

Oct 12, 2015 Articles 2 minute read

Turned to gold: Leigha Kato as Midas’s Daughter. (Photo by Mark Garvin)

Mary Zimmerman's 'Metamorphoses' at the Arden (second review)

Lessons about love from long ago, and a swimming pool

Myths entertain us and teach us lessons about life and love. Setting them in and around a pool of water emphasizes their relationship to the subconscious and challenges us to look for deeper meanings. But why do so many plays use water on stage?

Naomi Orwin

Oct 12, 2015 Articles 4 minute read

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A sweet cacophony of the yearnings of men and women: Krista Apple-Hodge as Psyche and Brandon Pierce as Eros. (Photo by Mark Garvin)

Mary Zimmerman's 'Metamorphoses' at the Arden (first review)

Transforming Ovid into a fascinating night of theater

I thought I had an inkling of what Metamorphoses was about. Wasn’t that the title of a book by Kafka about a man who wakes up one morning to discover he’s transformed into an insect? Well, that is not this show.

Frank Burd

Oct 12, 2015 Articles 3 minute read

Singing and signing. (Photo by Kevin Parry)

Deaf West Theatre production of 'Spring Awakening'

A courageous musical revival on Broadway

Deaf West Theatre brings a thrilling revival of Spring Awakening to Broadway.

Carol Rocamora

Oct 03, 2015 Articles 3 minute read

Nobody knows anything, according to William Goldman. (Photo by Bill D’Agostino)

Bruce Graham's 'According to Goldman' at Act II

Please, teacher, teach me something

Prolific Philadelphia author Bruce Graham constructs an engrossing drama with comic elements in which almost everything has a double meaning.

Steve Cohen

Oct 03, 2015 Articles 3 minute read

Arnoldy, Schaefer: 21st-century knockoff. (Photo: Mark Garvin)

‘High Society’ at the Walnut (2nd review)

Was the Main Line ever this gauche?

Class, sophistication, and wit are the missing ingredients in this revival of Cole Porter’s musical comedy about high-class high jinks on Philadelphia’s sophisticated Main Line.

Steve Cohen

Sep 24, 2015 Articles 3 minute read