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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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5 minute read
'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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3 minute read
'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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2 minute read
'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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2 minute read
'Five Mile Lake' by Rachel Bonds
Big smallness in McCarter's Five Mile Lake
Can a play about small, subtle life-changing moments be as satisfying as a play about life-and-death changes? Five Mile Lake says yes.
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3 minute read
Robert Askins's 'Hand to God'
Having the upper hand on Broadway
In Robert Askins’s hilarious, harrowing black comedy, the Devil appears in an unexpected form.
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3 minute read
‘brownsville song’ by Philadelphia Theatre Company (second review)
Too many young lives lost
Have we turned the tragedies of life into entertainment?
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3 minute read
‘brownsville song’ by Philadelphia Theatre Company (1st review)
No place to hide
“Black Lives Matter” may sound like empty rhetoric. Brownsville song, Kimber Lee’s gritty ghetto drama, may change your mind.
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3 minute read
'Biloxi Blues' at People's Light
Humor rooted in pain
Military comedy gets the Neil Simon treatment.
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2 minute read
'Kinky Boots' at the Academy of Music
Gender identity issues set to music
Kinky Boots, with its catchy tunes and outrageous costumes, has come to Philadelphia at just the right time, to remind us that “you can change the world when you change your mind.” And you can have a good time while you’re doing it.
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4 minute read