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'Bullets over Broadway: The Musical'
A crossfire of fun and musical mayhem
Who needs the angst that newer musicals have been offering these days? Bullets over Broadway: The Musical provides all the ammunition required for an evening of nostalgic pleasure.
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Will Eno’s ‘The Realistic Joneses’ in New York
The playwright who cloned Edward Albee
Nothing much happens in Will Eno’s engaging but enigmatic The Realistic Joneses. So what, then, is this new young playwright trying to say? Maybe something about use — or nonuse — of language.
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InterAct’s 'Down Past Passyunk' at the Adrienne
Local flavor
The local story of the Geno's "English only" controversy gets sold short in this uninspired fictionalization.
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Quince Productions’ 'Three Days of Rain'
Theater loves its dysfunctional families, but I don’t
I had the rare experience of enjoying a remarkable rendering of a play I’d otherwise dismiss scornfully.
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The future of professional theater criticism: An international view
Journalist critics grab their bullhorns and take theater to the streets. What will be the effect on theater when all that shouting dwindles to a whisper?
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'Red Velvet' and 'Raisin in the Sun'
Black in a white world
From a London theater in the 1830s to a Chicago tenement in the 1950s, a black man’s struggle in a white man’s world is being eloquently portrayed on the New York stages this season.
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'The Light in the Piazza' at Villanova Theatre
The return of the musical?
The American musical has become a revival show, but the Villanova Theatre’s production of the 2005 Broadway succès d’estime, The Light in the Piazza, tries valiantly to make a case for it as forging a new direction. I’ll still take "Mack the Knife."
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Why Shakespeare? Why now?
Shakespeare-lovers are enjoying a plethora of productions in honor of the Bard's 450th birthday.
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'Three Sisters' at the Arden (2nd review)
A leisurely entry into a leisurely world
This is the real thing, as opposed to the Durang comedy that trades on Chekovian names. It’s a realistic and compelling look at the Russia of 1900, despite — or because of? — some changes in staging and text.
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Durang's 'Vanya and Sonia' by PTC (2nd review)
Relying on outsiders
An homage of sorts to Chekhov is on stage at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre while the real Chekhov is across town at the Arden. The resemblances are slight.
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