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Listen for what is left unsaid: K. Todd Freeman and Jon Michael Hill in ‘What Is Left, Burns.’ (Image courtesy of Steppenwolf.)

Steppenwolf NOW presents James Ijames’s ‘What Is Left, Burns.’

Zooming with the past

Philadelphia playwright James Ijames makes his Steppenwolf Theatre Company debut with ‘What Is Left, Burns,’ an engrossing, elliptical digital play. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

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The French Revolution is a break of sorts from America’s 2020 election season. (Image courtesy of Quintessence Theatre.)

Quintessence Theatre presents Georg Büchner’s ‘Danton’s Death’

Political violence…in this economy?

Quintessence Theatre finished up its Shout into the Void Virtual Play Reading Festival and celebrated Election Day with Georg Büchner’s political masterpiece ‘Danton’s Death.’ Josh Herren reviews.
Josh Herren

Josh Herren

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Be sure to check the reviews. (Image courtesy of Lightning Rod Special.)

Lightning Rod Special presents ‘SUPERHOST’

Enjoy your stay (or else)

Lightning Rod Special’s ‘SUPERHOST’ imagines an Airbnb that isn’t as wonderful as it appears in a recording for distanced theatergoers in search of something creepy. Alaina Johns reviews.
Alaina Johns

Alaina Johns

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PAC streams a reading of Alice Childress’s ‘Trouble in Mind,’ which was unjustly overlooked in its time. (Image courtesy of PAC.)

Philadelphia Artists’ Collective presents Alice Childress’s ‘Trouble in Mind’

Good “Trouble”

Philadelphia Artists’ Collective presents a sharp digital staging of ‘Trouble in Mind,’ a much-revered but underproduced exploration of racism in the theater. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

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Facing and perpetuating an oppressive justice system: Janan Ashton and Xander Jackson in ‘BARS.’ (Image courtesy of Four Walls Theater.)

Four Walls Theater presents Pravin Wilkins’s ‘BARS’

Land of the free?

A new all-digital theater group concludes its inaugural season with Pravin Wilkins’s ‘BARS,’ which follows characters on both sides of the justice system, asking who it really serves. Michele Zipkin reviews.
Michele Zipkin

Michele Zipkin

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“I long to see you, dear.” EgoPo launches an epistolary theater. (Photo by Cameron Kelsall.)

EgoPo Classic Theater presents ‘Emily’ by Brenna Geffers and Natalia de la Torre

A letter from Miss Dickinson

EgoPo Classic Theater’s ‘Emily’ brings theater to your mailbox, and reconsiders the life and legacy of Emily Dickinson in the process. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

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‘It Can’t Happen Here’ got its Berkeley Rep premiere as a stage adaptation in 2016. (Photo by Kevin Berne, courtesy of Berkeley Repertory Theatre.)

Berkeley Rep presents ‘It Can’t Happen Here,’ a radio play streaming nationwide

It’s already happening here

In its radio-play adaptation of Sinclair Lewis’s 'It Can’t Happen Here,' Berkeley Rep makes us confront ourselves. Brad Rothbart reviews.
Brad Rothbart

Brad Rothbart

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The War of the Roses meets Zoom. (Photo courtesy of the Phoenix Theatre.)

The Phoenix Theatre presents Shakespeare’s ‘Henry VI, Part III’

“To make less the depth of grief”

The Phoenix Theatre in Chester Springs embraces Zoom with its presentation of ‘Henry VI, Part III,’ one of the Bard’s lesser-performed histories. Jill Ivey reviews.
Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

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Coordinates unclear: Thaddeus Phillips in ‘Zoo Motel.’ (Photo by Rafael Esteban Phillips.)

Thaddeus Phillips presents ‘Zoo Motel’

Don’t know before you go

In ‘Zoo Motel,’ the latest theatrical presentation for the pandemic age, Thaddeus Phillips brings his magic to the Zoom screen. Josh Herren reviews.
Josh Herren

Josh Herren

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Evoking the kind of limbo we all understand right now: a performer in ‘The Way Out’ at Laurel Hill Cemetery. (Image courtesy of Tangle Movement Arts.)

Philly Fringe 2020: Tangle Movement Arts presents ‘The Way Out’

The limbo of life

A performance made for pandemic, ‘The Way Out’ took audiences on a drive-in journey through music, movement, theater, and glassblowing at Laurel Hill Cemetery. Melissa Strong reviews.
Melissa Strong

Melissa Strong

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