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Fringe Festival: ‘Nellie/Nellie’ and ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’
Has women’s mental health care changed since the 1800s?
Two real women of the late 19th century experienced the horror of being labeled insane; their stories still resonate today in powerful Fringe presentations.
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'Scenes from a Marriage' and 'Love Letters'
Plumbing the depths of love and marriage
Scenes from a Marriage and Love Letters provide two sharply contrasting looks at love, both inside and outside of marriage.
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Globe Theatre's 'King Lear'
Can high tragedy be a form of entertainment?
The Globe Theatre’s production of King Lear doesn’t give Lear the centrality this tragedy needs.
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Emily Mann directs 'Antony and Cleopatra' at the McCarter
A mature staging of an immature romance
McCarter's Emily Mann attempts to make sense of one of Shakespeare's messiest plays, and the result is worthwhile.
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August Wilson's 'Fences' at People's Light
Reviving a modern American classic
People's Light & Theatre Company opens its season with a superb revival of August Wilson's Fences, which explores African-American life in the 1950s.
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Fringe Festival: Idiopathic Ridiculopathy's ‘Rhinoceros’ (3rd review)
When language goes....
Absurd theater, born in postwar France, remains relevant to our contemporary world — perhaps more so than ever, as the revival of Eugène Ionesco’s Rhinoceros by the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium suggests.
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Fringe Festival: New Paradise Laboratories’ ‘The Adults’ (third review)
Tampering with Chekhov
It was with a bit of trepidation — as well as determination — that I ventured down to the Painted Bride to see New Paradise Laboratories’ production of The Adults.
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Dolly Parton’s ‘9 to 5’ at the Walnut
I am woman, hear me roar
Dolly Parton’s feminist musical fantasy was judged too shallow and gaudy for Broadway. But the Walnut Street Theatre’s current production is surprisingly likable.
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Fringe Festival: ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’
An interview with the director of the Renegade 'Hunchback'
An interview with director Michael Durkin on the Renegade Company's mute version of the classic Victor Hugo novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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Fringe Festival: 'The Body Lautrec'
The dark side of the Belle Époque
Brilliant scenic and puppetry design of Cromie marries a Paris bordello to the aesthetic of the Mütter-like cabinet museum in this musical that looks at the dark side of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
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