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January 14th, 2010
Gagarin Way | Golden Age | Any Given Monday | Happily Ever After ... | Romeo and Juliet/King Lear/Macbeth/Henry IV, Part I/A Midsummer Night's Dream | When We Go Upon the Sea | August: Osage County | Leaving | Sunday in the Park with George

November 26th, 2009
Theater Review: Sweetness and Light
REVIEW: The Light in the Piazza
Composer/lyricist Adam Guettel and playwright Craig Lucas adapted Light as a musical. I'll admit I was surprised at the prospect. What would two contemporary artists make of it? Something simply gorgeous, that's what.

November 5th, 2009
Theater Review: Good Grief
Rabbit Hole

Lately, an overwhelming flood of media has turned grief-and-catharsis into an industry. Sudsy Lifetime movies, maudlin Jodi Picoult novels, countless hours of reality TV have reduced loss to a series of clichés. How can we separate art from Oprah-tainment?


October 22nd, 2009
Tue.-Thu., Oct. 27-29, 7:30 p.m.; Fri., Oct. 30, 8 p.m.; Sat., Oct. 31, 2 and 8 p.m.; $20-$55, Annenberg Center, 3680 Walnut St., 215-898-3900, pennpresents.org.
This early play shows the Bard at his most virtuosic, at least when it comes to verbal games and horseplay.

October 15th, 2009
Theater Review: Ho-Hump
THEATER REVIEW: The First Day of School
The list of really good sex comedies is short, and it doesn't include The First Day of School, which, true to its title, feels like an assignment dispatched in haste by an inexperienced writer.

October 15th, 2009
INTERVIEW: Frank X and Terry Nolen of The History Boys
Frank X is one of Philadelphia's most distinguished actors — and the Arden is one of our finest theaters. Yet amazingly, The History Boys marks their first collaboration.

October 8th, 2009
Theater Review: Is It Ironic?
Curtain Call: Happy Days
There's no doubting the historical importance of Happy Days, Beckett's modernist masterpiece. But it's difficult for contemporary audiences to connect with Winnie's plight.

October 8th, 2009
Theater Review: Educated Jest
Curtain Call: Humor Abuse
If there's one thing that strikes fear in my tiny critic's heart, it's a clown. And memoirs where kids tearfully forgive their errant parents.

October 1st, 2009
Arts Picks: Show Boat
Through Nov. 1, $22-$42.50, Media Theatre, 104 E. State St., Media, 610-891-0100, mediatheatre.org.
Show Boat is a microcosmic melting pot of our American musical heritage, with a still-unparalleled score that runs the gamut from operatic grandeur to gospel-inflected blues.

September 24th, 2009
Theater Review: Mud Men
REVIEW: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
In fact, the whole of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a good-hearted spoof — but it needs a very strong production to keep it all afloat.

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