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Benedict Cumberbatch in 'Hamlet'
Sherlock Holmes does Hamlet
Benedict Cumberbatch plays the sanest Dane you’ll ever see in Shakespeare’s most celebrated tragedy.
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'Bullets over Broadway: The Musical'
Everyone cheats
Talent aside, I can’t disassociate Woody Allen from his work, and Bullets over Broadway: The Musical has enough misogynistic sentiment to infuriate me even while I laugh at the antics on stage.
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4 minute read
'Dracula' at Hedgerow Theatre
An old vampire with a few new tricks
Hedgerow Theatre’s revival of the classic Dracula story succeeds through solid acting, without camp or excess.
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2 minute read
'The Handmaid's Tale' at Curio Theatre
A Tale both frightening and plausible
A feminist nightmare comes to life in a brilliant stage adaptation of Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale by Curio Theatre Company.
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4 minute read
'Antigone' and 'Metamorphoses'
A few words about dramatic language
When watching classic plays translated from other languages, consider what is lost and how much our contemporary mindset and values change meaning.
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6 minute read
Bruce Graham’s ‘Rizzo’ at Theatre Exile (third review)
The real Frank Rizzo, as I knew him
The good and the bad of Frank Rizzo the man are both there in Bruce Graham's Rizzo. But the play barely hints at the terrifying ugly of the man and some members of his police force, which I witnessed firsthand.
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5 minute read
Bruce Graham’s ‘Rizzo’ by Theatre Exile (second review)
Sound and fury, signifying . . . what?
Some people worshipped Frank Rizzo, Philadelphia’s combative mayor in the 1970s. Some people detested him. What else is new?
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6 minute read
Bruce Graham's 'Rizzo' at Theatre Exile
Rizzo Redux
Theatre Exile and playwright Bruce Graham bring a controversial Philadelphia figure back to pulsating life.
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4 minute read
Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre's 'Taming of the Shrew'
A shrew not tamed, but understood
Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre's Taming of the Shrew shows a keen understanding of the play's intentions — and is a lot of fun, too.
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4 minute read
'Romeo and Juliet' and 'The Mandrake' at Quintessence
When the sum is greater than the parts
Together, Romeo and Juliet and The Mandrake are a treatise on desire: how it shapes our lives, how it brings out the best and worst in us, and how social appearance and responsibility can confound our hearts.
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3 minute read