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'The Spoils' by Jesse Eisenberg
Oh, those millennials
You may think Woody Allen has written the final word on contemporary neurosis and malaise, but wait till you see Jesse Eisenberg’s new play, The Spoils.
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'Memphis' at the Walnut Street Theatre (second review)
Memphis gives an excellent look into pre-civil rights era, showing us that we have come a long way, even though we have a long way to go.
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A conversation with director Deb deCastro Braak on 'The River Niger'
“I want people to leave the theater and do something”
Philadelphia director Debra deCastro Braak talks about The River Niger, a Broadway success in 1972 that is rarely performed these days. In post-civil rights era America, Joseph A. Walker’s play shows violence balanced by poetry — “giving voice to those who have been silenced.”
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'The Hound of the Baskervilles' at Lantern Theater
A lesson in comedy
A comic Hound of the Baskervilles schools us not only in detection, but also in the art of comedy.
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'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead' at the Wilma
Embodying Stoppard
Stoppard is a playwright of the mind. The new production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern at the Wilma grounds his words in the body. But does it work?
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'What I Did Last Summer' and 'The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek'
From boyhood to manhood
These two luminous productions now playing side-by-side couldn't be more different on the surface, but at the heart, each of these two wonderful productions offers a deeply moving story about the coming of age of a boy and his country.
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Sondheim's 'Passion' at the Arden (first review)
Who deserves to be loved?
As The Bachelor and Bachelorette remind us, love is elusive and hard to find. In Passion, Stephen Sondheim has a lot of thoughts about love, but even in fiction, none of them leads to a happy ending.
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'Memphis' at the Walnut Street Theatre
Solving the racial divide with music
Memphis is fun to watch, even as it offers a simplified lesson in race relations. Set in the South of the 1950s, it seems to say we could all get along if we just learned to sing the same songs.
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'brownsville song' at Philadelphia Theatre Company (third review)
A black grandmother's perspective
The lives of the characters in brownsville song are so parallel to what I have witnessed raising sons, and now a grandson, in Philadelphia that I was brought to tears and knowing laughter as I watched.
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'To the Moon' by 1812 Productions
And away we go!
Although Scott Greer makes a fine Jackie Gleason, this production by 1812 is much more than a one-man impersonation.
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