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InterAct’s 'Ritu Comes Home'
How many offensive stereotypes can be squeezed into one play?
This is supposed to be a comedy, but if a writer has to get his laughs through cheap and easy stereotypes, well, it’s not a show of literary strength.
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Lauren Weedman: Well I Think You're Beautiful, Philadelphia
A whirlwind tour of Philly
Lauren Weedman spends ten days in Philly and reintroduces us to the city we may have grown so accustomed to living in we can’t see it anymore. Along the way she has her own revelation about trust and surrender.
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Sartre’s ‘No Exit’ in Camden
Hell’s hotel
Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit is a classic of the modern stage that still tells its timeless truth: Hell is other people. It also marks the debut of a promising new company.
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'The Screwtape Letters' at Lantern Theater
A not well-disguised sermon
Anthony Lawton creates a bravura modern theatrical presentation — but the message of The Screwtape Letters is distressingly conservative.
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'How to Succeed in Business' at the Walnut Street Theatre
Celebrating hypocrisy
A true Broadway classic gets the exuberant revival it deserves. Many of the performers at the Walnut are as good or better than the originators of their roles.
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Michael Hollinger's 'Incorruptible' at the Arden
A dark comedy of the Dark Ages
Playwright Michael Hollinger returns to the scene of his crime with this revival of one of his earliest and funniest scripts, Incorruptible .
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James Lapine's staging of Moss Hart's 'Act One'
For love of the theater
Moss Hart’s dramatic journey from impoverished origins to one of the most successful Broadway writers and director of his time (1930s-1950s) has inspired countless theater artists — including Lapine — with its purpose and passion.
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Anthony Giardina's 'City of Conversation'
Politics, then and now
The City of Conversation joins the ranks of other deeply moving American family plays that conflate the political and the personal.
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David Rudkin’s 'The Lovesong of Alfred J Hitchcock'
An exploration of a haunted mind
Playwright David Rudkin's lifelong fascination with Alfred Hitchcock is transformed into a biographical black comedy that explores the sources of the master's macabre creations.
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5 minute read
'Woody Sez' at People's Light
This music is your music
Woody Sez: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie, currently playing at People’s Light & Theatre Company, is a tribute to the legacy of one of America’s folk music icons.
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