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'Murder for Two' at PTC
It takes two, baby
I wonder if the dazzling performer Kyle Branzel loved the old movies in which Jerry Lewis played multiple characters as much as I did.
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Dave Malloy's 'Preludes'
Breaking the block
Who knew that Sergei Rachmaninoff, the great Russian composer, suffered from writer’s block? Dave Malloy’s arresting new Preludes dramatizes the story.
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Mary Tuomanen's 'Hello! Sadness!'
A one-woman show doesn’t have to be about only one woman
What would it be like to be friends with an icon you admire? Mary Tuomanen draws us into the world of her imagination, where she gets to talk to Jean Seberg and Françoise Sagan. Who would you talk to? What would you talk about?
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'Forbidden Broadway' at Act II Playhouse
Rejection, depression ... attention!
For Tony Braithwaite’s 21st birthday, his parents hosted a party at the family’s home in Bala Cynwyd and performed skits they called "Forbidden Braithwaite" (based, of course, on Forbidden Broadway). His Dad imitated Tevye and sang "What will take Tony from Bala to Broadway? Ambition! In the mean time what do I have to pay? Tuition!" Now here is Tony, 21 years later, doing similar material.
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'How to Write a New Book for the Bible' at People's Light
Family ties
How to Write a New Book for the Bible is a fine piece of personal theater and one of the most unusual new works to grace our stages in some time.
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'The Spoils' by Jesse Eisenberg
Oh, those millennials
You may think Woody Allen has written the final word on contemporary neurosis and malaise, but wait till you see Jesse Eisenberg’s new play, The Spoils.
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'Memphis' at the Walnut Street Theatre (second review)
Memphis gives an excellent look into pre-civil rights era, showing us that we have come a long way, even though we have a long way to go.
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A conversation with director Deb deCastro Braak on 'The River Niger'
“I want people to leave the theater and do something”
Philadelphia director Debra deCastro Braak talks about The River Niger, a Broadway success in 1972 that is rarely performed these days. In post-civil rights era America, Joseph A. Walker’s play shows violence balanced by poetry — “giving voice to those who have been silenced.”
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'The Hound of the Baskervilles' at Lantern Theater
A lesson in comedy
A comic Hound of the Baskervilles schools us not only in detection, but also in the art of comedy.
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'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead' at the Wilma
Embodying Stoppard
Stoppard is a playwright of the mind. The new production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern at the Wilma grounds his words in the body. But does it work?
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