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‘Jersey Boys,’ 'Sophie Tucker’ and ‘I Love Lucy Live’
Déjà vu all over again
What do today’s nostalgia shows mean to younger audiences who never saw these performers and don’t remember them — especially when they can Google the real original on YouTube?
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‘Godot’ and ‘No Man’s Land’ in New York
A pair of icons shaking up a pair of iconic plays
Pairing Waiting For Godot with No Man’s Land gives us a Beckett/Pinter double bill of complementary worldviews. Whether you see life as a glass half empty or half full, you’re treated to both.
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Alison Bechdel's 'Fun Home' becomes a musical
When I learned that Alison Bechdel's Fun Home had been turned into a musical, though I usually shy away from anything described as “heart-rending” or “poignant,” I knew I had to go.
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‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ and ‘The Winslow Boy’
The full Scorsese treatment (for someone who doesn’t deserve it)
Martin Scorsese’s voyeuristic Wolf of Wall Street glamorizes a Wall Street scam artist who enriched himself by breaking every law in the book. Meanwhile, the simple honest heroism of Terrence Rattigan’s The Winslow Boy went barely noticed this fall.
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‘Cinderella Panto’ at People’s Light
Cinderella meets the Philadelphia Eagles
People’s Light has cornered a niche market with its annual nonsensical Panto production. I mean, where else can you embellish Cinderella with references to the Paoli Local, Ted Cruz’s government shutdown, The Elephant Man and Obamacare?
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New City Stage’s ‘Frost/Nixon’
Nixon meets his match
As this masterful production makes abundantly clear, makes clear, Frost/Nixon is really about television: how it simplifies complex ideas and entire careers into a single snapshot.
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Lantern’s ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’ (2nd review)
Even in Wales, was Christmas ever this somber?
Would it be too much to ask that a few kids be cast in a play that’s so purely wrapped up in the wonders of youth?
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Lee Breuer’s ‘La Divina Caricatura’
A dog’s search for meaning
Lee Breuer’s two-and-a-half-hour multi-media music-driven puppet extravaganza is an American epic, featuring a dog with an addiction to a bad master and a longing for fame who spirals into the depths of popular cultural despair and unexpected spiritual teachings.
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Curio Theatre’s ‘Gender Comedy’
Do you really think Shakespeare’s comedies are funny?
In the sophomoric and absurd Gender Comedy, Curio Theater does to Twelfth Night what should be done to Twelfth Night.
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Pig Iron’s ‘Twelfth Night’ (2nd review)
What would Shakespeare say?
Audiences at Twelfth Night laugh when Sir Toby Belch falls prey to Maria’s merry and deserving pranks. But nowadays, thousands of Internet surfers fall victim to not-so-merry pranksters hiding behind the cloak of anonymity. Oh, for the good old days.
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