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Gogol's 'Inspector General' by Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium (1st review)
Who's corrupt?
Invited to dance, the Inspector General extends his palm, and the more it is greased, the greedier he grows, until he gets on his horse and gallops away.
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5 minute read
'The It Girl' by Simpatico Theatre Project (second review)
Giving voice to a silent star
Clara Bow was “the It Girl,” a flapper with an indefinable sexual something, but we know very little else about her. In reviving her, do we risk turning her into one more cliché of the starlet victimized by the system? Are we using her for our own purposes and once again robbing her of her own voice?
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3 minute read
National Theatre Live broadcast of 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses'
A battlefield of the sexes
Christopher Hampton’s devastating play about sex and power is set in pre-revolutionary France, but is relevant today.
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3 minute read
Ike Holter’s ‘Exit Strategy’ by PTC (first review)
Blackboard jungle, redeemed
Everyone seems to agree that America’s urban public education system is broken. Ike Holter’s Exit Strategy suggests that today’s preferred cures may be worse than the disease.
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4 minute read
'The It Girl' by Simpatico Theatre Project
The plight of the It Girl, then and now
Girls just wanna have fun, says Simpatico Theatre Project’s world premiere of The It Girl, but it isn’t easy. Sometimes respect and equality seem damn near impossible.
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3 minute read
Kristoffer Diaz's '#therevolution' at InterAct
New play is out-performed by new space
In his new play #therevolution, Kristoffer Diaz imagines a popular uprising reminiscent of the 1976 film Network, but neglects to fuel the outrage convincingly.
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3 minute read
'Harvey' at the Walnut Street Theatre
What would Dr. Phil say?
Once again, a play from the ’40s offers us alcoholism and mental illness as ripe topics for comedy. In Harvey at the Walnut Street Theatre, an alcoholic dreamer draws us into his world and makes us believe in imaginary friends. After all, when life gets hard, who doesn’t want to escape reality?
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3 minute read
Toshiki Okada’s 'God Bless Baseball' at FringeArts
The great Korean-Japanese pastime
Toshiki Okada’s God Bless Baseball is confusing and slow-paced — kind of like baseball itself, for those benighted souls who don’t appreciate the game.
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3 minute read
'Oscar Wilde: From the Depths' at the Lantern (second review)
Oscar Wilde: Bon vivant or tragic hero?
Thanks to social media and a celebrity-obsessed culture, today’s iconic personages manage to transcend their peccadillos, and sometimes even their crimes, to stay relevant and bankable. Oscar Wilde, though, is relegated to a historical question mark about why he seems to have played a part in his own destruction.
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3 minute read
'Oscar Wilde: From the Depths' at the Lantern (first review)
A man untransformed
Author Charles McMahon missed the opportunity of exploring Oscar Wilde’s spiritual life in the new Lantern production about the playwright.
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3 minute read