Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Sometimes cynical, ultra-cool critical disdain—much in evidence these days— just won’t do. I loved this show; it’s filled with wonderful songs and wonderful singers, an…
The pos…
SOURCE: phindie.com at 10:35AMFriday, April 14, 2023
At 15th & Bainbridge—only a few blocks from Philadelphia Theatre Company’s stage at Broad & Lombard—there stood a legendary dive bar called Emerson’s. Jazz greats—John…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 03:24PMTuesday, April 11, 2023
What a wackadoodle of a show! Part party, part pop musical, the Walnut Street Theatre’s production of Jimmy Buffett’s hit is an enjoyable evening, but…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 03:02PMThursday, April 6, 2023
I should have such a problem all the time: how to review a show that is just about perfect.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 01:35PMFriday, March 24, 2023
And now, “live in consort,” the six wives of Henry VIII: “divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.”
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 12:17PMThursday, March 23, 2023
Well, of course I know they were clapping for the cast and not the characters, but there was something creepy about hundreds of people—some of…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 11:51AMSaturday, March 4, 2023
You'll find much beauty in the vast halls of Convention Center.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 09:17PMSunday, February 19, 2023
Leave it to Inis Nua, the theater company whose name means “New Island” and is dedicated to producing plays from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 09:58PMSaturday, February 18, 2023
Toby Zinman looks at three plays now New York stages.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 04:25AMFriday, February 17, 2023
Our dilettante at large reviews Academy of Vocal Arts' South Philly themed production of Donizetti’s comic opera
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 10:26PMFriday, February 10, 2023
In the political news in the past few years, the concern has been not with the lifespan of facts, but the lifespan of lies
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 08:58PMMonday, February 6, 2023
The Dilettante at Large is at large again, writing about the culture as an enjoyer rather than an expert. Her latest pleasure was Opera Philly’s…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 01:25PMSunday, February 5, 2023
Terrific actors playing lovable characters, important issues, snappy dialogue, and plenty of comedy
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 05:40PMSaturday, February 4, 2023
A play is about acting as well as the political act of making theater as well as about getting it wrong through cultural appropriation
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 05:05PMFriday, February 3, 2023
Take it from this old broad, Broads, 1812 Productions’ new show, is an entertaining 75 minutes—if you like funny songs and dirty jokes.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 12:20PMSaturday, January 28, 2023
Benjamin Bagby takes on the role of the scop, the storyteller
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 06:21PMSaturday, January 21, 2023
Are you missing those bad hairdos and baggy blue suits of 1969?
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 06:54AMFriday, December 16, 2022
Adrienne Kennedy’s crushingly beautiful play, Ohio State Murders, is making a long overdue debut on Broadway.
The post [NYC] OHIO STATE MURDERS: Still experimental, still challenging, and …
SOURCE: phindie.com at 10:57PMThis new musical comedy, a Big Broadway rewrite of the 1959 classic movie, Some Like it Hot, offers fabulosity: huge production numbers, flashy costumes, marvelous…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 10:46PMMonday, December 12, 2022
The Crucible, has withstood all manner of productions, from starry Broadway to high school drama club, and it will withstand Sarah Ruhl’s crass replay, Becky Nurse of Salem
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 10:55AMMonday, November 21, 2022
Where are the great acts I remembered? The trained cats? the galloping horses? the iron men? the Wheel of Death?
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 09:01PMMonday, November 7, 2022
“We are together.” This line is an often-repeated refrain in Death of a Driver, a grim new play by Will Snider presented by InterAct at the Drake’s Proscenium…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 12:34PMQ: How do you say schmaltz in French? A: Les Miserables. This long musical melodrama, based on Victor Hugo’s long novelistic melodrama is currently wowing…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 12:16PMFriday, October 28, 2022
Anna Faye Lieberman gives us the raging, disappointed, self-indicting, violent, drunk, lonely, and altogether wild-hearted Mary
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 12:38PMTuesday, October 18, 2022
Modigliani at the Barnes Foundation is a ravishing exhibition in a ravishing venue.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 02:32PMTuesday, October 11, 2022
Two meditations on misfortune show us what it is to be “laughing wild amid severest woe.”
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 03:43PMMonday, September 26, 2022
This is one for the life list if you’re an opera fan.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 06:29PMThursday, September 15, 2022
Tom Stoppard’s newest play Leopoldstadt is coming to New York, and once again he is being talked about as if he were the second coming…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 04:49PMFriday, September 9, 2022
Nobody writes crazy, despairing, desperate women like Tennessee Williams
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 10:14PMMonday, June 13, 2022
No woods. No cutesy pop-up book set. Just three hours of pure musical theater pleasure: gorgeous melodies, clever lyrics, profound ideas and a dream cast.…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 06:31PMFriday, June 10, 2022
Lynn Nottage knows how to “sustain the complexity” so that this funny play with a serious agenda works
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 09:56AM 
