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Recent CP Reviews
September 18th, 7:00 pm A.D. Amorosi on 13 Most Beautiful...Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests If you’ve seen Andy Warhol’s black-n-white Screen Tests of 1964 to 1966, the idea of sound atop the silent, stark 16mm Bolex-shot shorts is distracting. The blank stares (some hidden by sunglasses) ... more » September 17th, 7:00 pm Holly Otterbein on Mortal Engine I sometimes snicker at the metaphors applied to dance — “this ballet is about relationships and emptiness,” “this Flamenco is concerned with mortality.” But Mortal Engine is truly about those ... more » September 17th, 7:00 pm Jenna Portnoy on Postcards from the Woods Walking through the vault-like metal doors of the huge ICE BOX, the audience discovers Merian Soto and her four collaborator dancers — Jumatatu Poe, Olive Prince, Noemí Segarra. Each pose silently ... more » September 17th, 7:00 pm K. Ross Hoffman on Rails As our commenters have beaten me to reporting, many kudos are in order to the creators of this fiendishly satisfying noir comedy/thriller: for its inventive blending of puppetry (including a ... more » September 16th, 10:00 pm Patrick Rapa on The Sound of Young America LIVE! Up until this point, the syndication-worthy charm of Jesse Thorn, host of PRI's The Sound of Young America (heard locally on WHYY) was kind of lost on me. Funny — but public radio funny? Now ... more » September 16th, 7:00 pm Holly Otterbein on small metal objects Part of the fun of this play, I must admit, is waiting to see if something will go terribly wrong. They plop the four actors (with microphones, on no stage at all) and the audience (with headphones, ... more » September 16th, 7:00 pm K. Ross Hoffman on Trad The Remount Inis Nua Theater, Philly’s enthusiastic proponents of British Isles drama, strike just about the right tone — agreeably daft but still somewhat screwily sentimental — for this Irish tall tale, ... more » September 15th, 8:00 pm Carolyn Huckabay on The A.W.A.R.D. Show! 2009: Philadelphia I’m finally starting to understand what the participating choreographers in The A.W.A.R.D. Show! mean when they say they’re ambivalent — and none too pleased — about the contest format of this ... more » September 15th, 7:30 pm Shaun Brady on The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco There aren’t many elements to contend with in Eugene Ionesco’s The Chairs beyond, well, all those chairs. For the most part it’s two characters, several doors and a couple of windows. That’s ... more » September 14th, 10:00 pm K. Ross Hoffman on Fefu and Her Friends It’s refreshing to see some straight theater at the Fringe, even if Maria Irene Fornes’ uncomfortably feminist 1977 comedic drama is not particularly straight play in any sense. At least one ... more » |
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Tickets still available for Thursday, Friday and Saturday night. ... more »Brian on The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco September 17th, 11:01 am Wow! This production was excellent in spite of a few minor technological lags. Inspired and original!! ... more »Jenna Reily on Wake Up Philadelphia! |

