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Fringe Festival: Idiopathic Ridiculopathy's ‘Rhinoceros’ (3rd review)
When language goes....
Absurd theater, born in postwar France, remains relevant to our contemporary world — perhaps more so than ever, as the revival of Eugène Ionesco’s Rhinoceros by the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium suggests.
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Fringe Festival: New Paradise Laboratories’ ‘The Adults’ (third review)
Tampering with Chekhov
It was with a bit of trepidation — as well as determination — that I ventured down to the Painted Bride to see New Paradise Laboratories’ production of The Adults.
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Dolly Parton’s ‘9 to 5’ at the Walnut
I am woman, hear me roar
Dolly Parton’s feminist musical fantasy was judged too shallow and gaudy for Broadway. But the Walnut Street Theatre’s current production is surprisingly likable.
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Fringe Festival: ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’
An interview with the director of the Renegade 'Hunchback'
An interview with director Michael Durkin on the Renegade Company's mute version of the classic Victor Hugo novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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Fringe Festival: 'The Body Lautrec'
The dark side of the Belle Époque
Brilliant scenic and puppetry design of Cromie marries a Paris bordello to the aesthetic of the Mütter-like cabinet museum in this musical that looks at the dark side of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
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Fringe Festival: Pig Iron’s ‘99 Breakups’ (third review)
Not just romantic breakups
The performances of 99 Breakups, some more inscrutable than others, have a few verbal and physical gems, but aren’t exactly revelations on human nature.
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Fringe Festival: Idiopathic Ridiculopathy’s ‘Rhinoceros’
Absurd is the new normal
Ionesco was prescient: In today’s weird and wild world, a lot of us are surrendering to the notion of life without inherent meaning or order.
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Fringe Festival: New Paradise Laboratories’ ‘The Adults’ (second review)
A deflated balloon
The adroit cast of The Adults takes ideas from a great play by Chekhov and contorts them into a mannered exhibition of body movements.
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'If/Then' on Broadway
Chances and choices
In If/Then, after two acts and 22 songs, Idina Menzel’s character (both of them) realizes that life just keeps happening: a cascade of choices and chances, paths pursued and paths ignored. You can’t ever know what will happen next.
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'Book of Mormon' at the Forrest (fourth review)
The power of theater compels you . . .
F-bombs and crude jokes and satire, oh my! The Book of Mormon made my mother laugh and want to see other shows she normally wouldn’t. Theater is powerful stuff.
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