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"Red Hot Patriot': Kathleen Turner as Molly Ivins (2nd review)
A crusader for our times
The impassioned portrayal of Molly Ivins by Kathleen Turner vividly brings to the stage the columnist's sharp political critiques and belly-laugh mockery of those in power.
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"The Lion King' gets the tour treatment
When gasps turn to giggles
In its touring production, The Lion King looks as fresh and gorgeous as ever. But it has undermined its original tone as a human drama.
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2 minute read
"Red Hot Patriot': Kathleen Turner as Molly Ivins (1st review)
Joan of Arc of the Pecos
The late spunky Texas journalist Molly Ivins makes an inspired and inspiring subject for a one-woman stage play. The problem with Red Hot Patriot lies in the two-dimensional nature of journalism, as opposed to drama or literature.
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"Language Rooms' at the Wilma (3rd review)
The fog of the war on terror
In this brilliant dark comedy, the Egyptian-American playwright Yussef El Guindi addresses American paranoia toward outsiders as perhaps only a talented outsider/immigrant artist could do, enhanced by Blanka Zizka's coherent direction and Wilma's dependable, high-quality production supports.
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"Language Rooms' at the Wilma (2nd review)
The questioners and the questioned
Language Rooms takes place in the hermetic world of a private contractor whose job is to interrogate terrorist suspects, but which might be next door. The play invites us to ask Theater of the Absurd questions about ourselves but undercuts its own mise en scène with a drama-within-the-drama about immigrant acculturation that clearly belongs somewhere else.
Language Rooms. By Yussef El Guindi; directed by Blanka Zizka (world premiere). Through April 4, 2010 at Wilma Theater, 265 S. Broad St. (at Spruce). (215) 546-7824 or www.wilmatheater.org.
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5 minute read
"The Gnädiges Fräulein' by Tennessee Williams
Southern comfort, taken to extremes
In The Gnädiges Fräulein, Tennessee Williams serves up an absurd exaggeration of the kind of Southern myths that Williams himself popularized.
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3 minute read
Beckett's "Waiting For Godot,' by EgoPo
New life for Beckett's hobos
Careful, astute direction by Brenna Geffers of EgoPo Productions resurrects the bones of Beckett's existential classic, Waiting For Godot, into a drama that's fresher and more exciting than the raft of “new” plays currently on Philadelphia stages.
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"The Book of Grace' in New York
An absence of grace
Suzan-Lori Parks's new play, The Book of Grace, is determined to bludgeon every shred of hope, optimism and cheerfulness out of us until we succumb to her grim view of human beings, event outcomes and life generally.
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3 minute read
Straight talk about "Romeo and Juliet' (2nd review)
Overblown emotions? Surely. A great love story? Give me a break
I wish I could tear up over Romeo and Juliet like everyone else. And I have— when I was 14. But a more adult perspective on partnership has squelched my enjoyment. Why have we enshrined the fickle, maudlin, airheaded young Romeo as the ultimate synonym for “lover”?
Romeo and Juliet. By William Shakespeare; directed by Matt Pfeiffer. Through April 11, 2010 at Arden Theatre, 40 N. Second St. (215) 922-1122 or www.ardentheatre.org.
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5 minute read
"Language Rooms' at the Wilma (1st review)
Immigrant angst: The sorrow and the comedy
Language Rooms, Yussef El Guindi's fierce comic fantasy, tackles many realities of Arab”“American life. It would be funnier if it moved faster.
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4 minute read