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Brett Ashley Robinson's Gina Ekdal and Deysha Nelson's Hedwig Ekdal with Tom Carman's interloper, Gregers Werle. (Photo by Shawn May.)

Cameron Kelsall’s best Philadelphia-area theater of 2018

2018: The year of the revival

Theater critic Cameron Kelsall considers his favorite productions of 2018 and realizes that revivals venturing beyond the canon were worthy tickets.
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Cameron Kelsall

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Anthony Lawton isn’t performing your grandfather’s ‘Christmas Carol.’ (Photo by Mark Garvin.)

The Lantern presents Charles Dickens’s ‘A Christmas Carol’

A Dickens of a show

Lantern Theater Company’s adaptation of ‘A Christmas Carol’ should become a new holiday tradition. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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Cameron Kelsall

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Anita (Gianna Lozzi Wolf) and David (Jeff Barg) brave their first Christmas together. (Photo courtesy of Raw Street Productions.

Raw Street Productions presents ‘The Eighth Fish of Christmas’

A family affair

Raw Street’s ‘The Eighth Fish of Christmas’ heads home for the holidays with a lot of laughs — and some familiar family dynamics. Of course, the cash bar doesn’t hurt. Jill Ivey reviews.
Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

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Charlie DelMarcelle as Marcel: Can we ever really expect privacy? (Photo by Daniel Kontz.)

Tiny Dynamite’s A Play, A Pie and a Pint presents ‘The Audience Disturbs Marcel’s Bath Time’

Private bath?

Tiny Dynamite opens its season with ‘The Audience Disturbs Marcel’s Bath Time and He Is Very Upset with You All,' but the play’s exploration of privacy culture does little to disturb the audience. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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Cameron Kelsall

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Some pig? Adam Howard as Wilbur in the Arden’s ‘Charlotte’s Web.’ (Photo by Mark Garvin.)

The Arden Theatre presents E.B. White’s ‘Charlotte’s Web’

A story with strings

True to the best of children’s stories, the undeniable dark side of ‘Charlotte’s Web’ shows up onstage, but this production can’t quite capture the novel’s poetic and lifelike verve. Alaina Johns reviews.
Alaina Johns

Alaina Johns

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Noura and Tareq (Heather Raffo and Nabil Elouahabi) must leave the surety of the past. (Photo by Joan Marcus.)

Playwrights Horizon presents Heather Raffo’s ‘Noura’

The dollhouse through a different door

‘Noura,’ at Playwrights Horizons in New York, uses Ibsen to explore the experiences of resettled Iraqi refugees in America. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

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Crystal Lucas-Perry and Chilina Kennedy front a winning ensemble in spot-on ’60s style. (Photo by Matt Urban at NuPOINT Marketing.)

Delaware Theatre Company presents ‘A Sign of the Times’

Way back right now

It’s a long way back to the 1960s with 'A Sign of the Times,' and DTC makes it a tuneful trip. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Gail Obenreder

Gail Obenreder

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Petri dishes: sexy, right? Mary Tuomanen and James Ijames star in ‘Completeness.’ (Photo by Paola Nogueras.)

Theatre Exile presents Itamar Moses’s ‘Completeness’

Program error

Itamar Moses’s ‘Completeness,’ at Theatre Exile, drips with an off-putting sense of performative cleverness. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

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George Street Playhouse presents ‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’

Back to the dollhouse

A subtle, surprising production of Lucas Hnath’s ‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’ at George Street Playhouse warrants a look from Ibsen-sequel skeptics. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

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Philip Anthony Wilson, Janet Rowley Klimwoski, and Francesca Nong in ‘Children of Eden.’ (Photo by Daniel Kontz Photography.)

11th Hour Theatre Company presents ‘Children of Eden’

Creation stories

11th Hour Theatre Company makes a strong case for the cult musical ‘Children of Eden.’ Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

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