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'Macbeth' at Villanova
Our suffering country under a hand accurs’d
James J. Christy, returning to Villanova after eight years, has directed a rousing and imaginatively staged Macbeth with student and postgraduate performers.

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Underbite Theatre’s ‘Would You Still Love Me, IF?’
Answering some questions, asking others
Underbite Theatre’s Would You Still Love Me, IF? asks questions about gender identity, but raises doubts about its relationships.

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Where's the audience for the Barrymore Awards?
The scope of the Barrymore Awards is expanding each year with a wider swath of companies, but the live audience is narrowing.

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'Lights Rise on Grace' at Azuka Theatre
Lights Rise on Grace illuminates three dark souls
Though Lights Rise on Grace often feels constructed, its jumps in time and points of view keep it unpredictable. Love stories never get old, and this one, after some painful episodes, offers a bit of hope.

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Bill Cain's 'Equivocation' at the Arden (second review)
Mixed feelings about 'Equivocation'
My reaction swayed back and forth during different parts of this extravagantly ambitious work. In the end, I was frustrated and annoyed by the play while admiring the acting and staging.

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Bill Cain's 'Equivocation' at the Arden
Revising Shakespearean history
Witty, smart, fast-paced, and overly long, with some gratuitous full-frontal nudity, Equivocation shows off the writer’s genius and the actors’ abilities, and a lot of pallid male skin. Even though it’s brilliant, a play about guys, starring guys — semi-naked guys — has a bit too much testosterone for my taste.

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Benedict Cumberbatch in 'Hamlet'
Sherlock Holmes does Hamlet
Benedict Cumberbatch plays the sanest Dane you’ll ever see in Shakespeare’s most celebrated tragedy.
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'Bullets over Broadway: The Musical'
Everyone cheats
Talent aside, I can’t disassociate Woody Allen from his work, and Bullets over Broadway: The Musical has enough misogynistic sentiment to infuriate me even while I laugh at the antics on stage.

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'Dracula' at Hedgerow Theatre
An old vampire with a few new tricks
Hedgerow Theatre’s revival of the classic Dracula story succeeds through solid acting, without camp or excess.

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'The Handmaid's Tale' at Curio Theatre
A Tale both frightening and plausible
A feminist nightmare comes to life in a brilliant stage adaptation of Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale by Curio Theatre Company.

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