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Broadway talents can't save Philadelphia Theatre Company's co-production with the 76ers' Daryl Morey from plodding songs and low-energy direction
Jun 18
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Matthew Sekellick
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March 2025
WTF: Williamstown "W71" Season Without Women
The long-running festival has embraced a new leadership model without artistic staff
Mar 11
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Matthew Sekellick
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WTF: Williamstown "W71" Season Without Women
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January 2025
A Call to Action for ArtsBank, plus The Comeuppance at The Wilma
A delayed review of a tightly composed script with some, well, strong directorial choices. Plus a preview of the '25 half of the 2024-25 season.
Jan 21
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Matthew Sekellick
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A Call to Action for ArtsBank, plus The Comeuppance at The Wilma
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November 2024
Moreno at InterAct
Faux-radicalism in the American premiere of Pravin Wilkins's football four-hander
Nov 18, 2024
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Matthew Sekellick
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The Listeners
Marvelous music and weak storytelling in Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek's new opera
Nov 5, 2024
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Matthew Sekellick
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October 2024
Chris Davis's The 40-Year-Old Ballerino
Plus: Gene Farbe's And the skies were not cloudy all day
Oct 4, 2024
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Matthew Sekellick
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Chris Davis's The 40-Year-Old Ballerino
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September 2024
Love you Love you Love You, The Van Gogh Shogh
veteran clowns Sarah Sanford and Donna Oblongata deliver two very different, and very good, shows
Sep 27, 2024
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Matthew Sekellick
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Love you Love you Love You, The Van Gogh Shogh
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Othello (vs The Military Industrial Complex), The Skunk Cycle, and a half dozen clowns
the Estonian clowns Piip and Tuut, Livia Chesley's double bill of intricate strange worlds, Marc Frost's My Uncle Sam, and War and Play
Sep 25, 2024
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Matthew Sekellick
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Othello (vs The Military Industrial Complex), The Skunk Cycle, and a half dozen clowns
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Seven Philly Fringe shows: Sohrab is Bumbling Foriegner, Phone Claw for Mister, Holland Andrews
Reviews of these PLUS The Fluxus Brothers Present: Good Art Bad Art, Jungwoong Kim's within/without, MK + A rewatch podcast, and Jeff Evans's SHITTER…
Sep 20, 2024
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Matthew Sekellick
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Seven Philly Fringe shows: Sohrab is Bumbling Foriegner, Phone Claw for Mister, Holland Andrews
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Handala, An Avalanche of "No," Suddenly Last Summer, and more
Reviews of five Philly Fringe shows, including New Paradise Labs and Die-Cast, Savannah Reich's What is the Butt Game?, and John Miller Giltner's Dead…
Sep 17, 2024
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Matthew Sekellick
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Poor Judge from Pig Iron Theatre Company
A quietly virtuosic and heartfelt cabaret featuring seven Aimee Manns
Sep 14, 2024
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Matthew Sekellick
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Lightning Rod Special's Nosejob
A slipshod play with an unsure point of view. PLUS: Brooke Shilling's Pirate Queens and Emma McGill's Graveyard Shift
Sep 13, 2024
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Matthew Sekellick
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