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Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival presents August Wilson’s Fences
Uneven ‘Fences’
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival’s Fences has been waiting in the wings since 2020. Josh Herren reviews.
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Shakespeare in Clark Park presents The Taming!
It was the patriarchy all along
For its 16th production, Shakespeare in Clark Park presents one of Shakespeare’s most problematic plays … and a refreshing antidote. Jill Ivey reviews.
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The 2022 Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Festival
Art and wellness for the “Head and HeART”
The 2022 Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Festival focuses on mental health with seven new plays by local playwrights, a wellness fair, and a works-in-progress presentation addressing parenting artists. Melissa Strong previews.
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Delaware Shakespeare presents The Tempest
Something rich and strange
Delaware Shakespeare celebrates its 20th year of the Bard in Rockwood Park with a strange and satisfying production of The Tempest. Gail Obenreder reviews.
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The Kimmel Cultural Campus presents the national tour of Aaron Sorkin’s To Kill a Mockingbird
Shockingly relevant
A new, nonlinear retelling of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, stopping in Philly on its national tour, makes us face an America that never really changed. Marta Rusek reviews.
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Act II Playhouse presents Together Off-Broadway: Merman & Martin
You gotta have “it”
In its new revue, Act II Playhouse takes on two legends of the American theater, Mary Martin and Ethel Merman, with mixed success. Wendy Rosenfield reviews.
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People’s Light presents Paul Osborn’s The Vinegar Tree
American intellectual comedy
People’s Light revives The Vinegar Tree, a rarely staged comedy of manners by a playwright who was America’s answer to Shaw and Coward. Gail Obenreder reviews.
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EgoPo Classic Theater presents Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class
Still a giant of the genre
EgoPo Classic Theater finally concludes its survey of Sam Shepard with his brutal, bitingly funny Curse of the Starving Class. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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InterAct Theatre Company presents Hilary Bettis’s 72 Miles to Go…
Beyond borders
This moving drama follows a Tucson family over the years as they live without their mother, who has been deported to Mexico. Kirsten Bowen reviews.
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Tiny Dynamite presents The Complete Works of Jane Austen, Abridged
The Bingster is back
Tiny Dynamite distills six of the English language’s best-loved novels—and then some—into this fun, fleet, and heartfelt tribute to Jane Austen. Alaina Johns reviews.
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