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'Photograph 51' at the Lantern Theater
Science and personality
Smart people have become the latest species to be put under the microscope of dramatic interpretation. Are they really so different from the rest of us? Photograph 51 at the Lantern Theater shows us how personal insecurities can effect life-changing discoveries.
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Arthur Miller's 'All My Sons' at People's Light
Fissures in the family
People's Light stages a solid, traditional production of All My Sons in which race is largely beside the point and the characters just happen to be black.
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Fringe 2015: Jo Strømgren's 'Border' and 'There'
When nonsense makes complete sense
The talented Jo Strømgren Kompani returns to the Fringe Festival with two 60-minute gems of political theater.
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Fringe 2015: 'Alias Ellis Mackenzie' by Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental
Telenovela or stage play?
Do gimmicks add to or detract from the success of a show? In Alias Ellis Mackenzie, the set and the out-of-sequence presentation challenge the audience to figure out what is going on.
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Fringe 2015: Iron Age Theatre's 'A Great War'
What price heroism?
In A Great War, we have a courageous, compelling new play by James Christy Jr., a Philadelphia playwright, calling attention to a lesser known aspect of World War I: the participation of German Jewish soldiers.
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Fringe 2015: 'The Captive' by Philadelphia Artists' Collective (second review)
Is a 1920s shocker worth mounting today?
Who’s the captive here? A lady with a scandalous orientation? Or a whole society that is as obsessed with women’s sex lives now as it was in the 1920s?
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Fringe 2015: '50 Days at Iliam' by Hannah Van Sciver
Coming full circle
Hannah Van Sciver’s take on the creation of Cy Twombly's Fifty Days at Iliam was a sensual, rhythmic, playful, and thoughtful take on the inner workings of the artist.
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Fringe 2015: 'Reimagine Your Reality' by Frank Perri
Slippery issues of self-will
The participants in Frank Perri's hypnotism show clearly experience no embarrassment, but does their lack of embarrassment — of, literally, self-consciousness — give us permission to laugh?
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Fringe 2015: Jo Strømgren's 'Doll's House'
Shrinking a classic down to size
What is there new to discover in Henrik Ibsen’s Doll's House? Jo Strømgren Kompani proposes a Nora who is much more enlightened than usual, a villainous Krogstad, and a set that is so confined the characters stumble over each other to get from place to place.
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Fringe 2015: 'The Captive' by Philadelphia Artists' Collective
The love that dares not speak its name
The Captive was written in 1926 when homosexuality was still “the love that dares not speak its name.” The original production’s Broadway run was halted by censors, and the cast members were arrested. This revival proves that the play was a mature treatment of the subject, far ahead of its time.
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