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Fishermen's Lives Take Center Stage at the Wilma
Mark Cofta reviews Under the Whaleback
Mark Cofta, City Paper
The East Hull native’s drama about his city’s once-thriving fishing industry receives a stunning Wilma Theater North American premiere.
Criminal Genius
Through March 30, $10-$20, Walking Fish Theatre
Mark Cofta, City Paper
Director Stan Heleva’s production crackles with a loony fury, navigating the thin line between comic mayhem and visceral violence.
 
A Play, A Pie and A Pint 03/19/2013
Spacewang, March 21 and 24; Kyoto, March 26-28, 6:30 p.m., $15, Society Hill Playhouse
Mark Cofta, City Paper
This unique concept proves that theater needn’t be a full-evening formal occasion.
 
Madville 03/12/2013
March 20-April 13, $10-$20, Calvary Center
Mark Cofta, City Paper
Adult siblings revisit the remote and hostile Canadian woods that, as children, they dubbed Madville.
 
The Bends 03/12/2013
Through March 31, $15-$22, Off-Broad Street Theater, 1636 Sansom St.
Mark Cofta, City Paper
In this darkly comic play, a reunion goes awry.
 
Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them 03/05/2013
March 8-24, $15-$30, The Power Plant, 233 N. Bread St.
Mark Cofta, City Paper
A timely drama about adolescence, homosexuality and abandonment.
 
Hurlyburly 03/05/2013
Through March 24, $22-$26, Adrienne Theater, 2030 Sansom St.
Mark Cofta, City Paper
More about relationships than movies, the script has an Entourage-meets-middle-age vibe, with talky wounded men.
 
Moby Dick — Rehearsed 02/26/2013
March 1-24, $22, Centre Theater, 208 DeKalb St., Norristown.
Mark Cofta, City Paper
Iron Age Theatre Company takes us to sea.
 
Curtain Call 02/26/2013
Reviewing 1812 Productions' To Fool the Eye.
Mark Cofta, City Paper
1812's production seems to want To Fool the Eye to be a French farce.
 
Vincent in Brixton 02/26/2013
Through March 10, $30-$36, Walnut Street Theatre Studio on 3, 825 Walnut St.
Mark Cofta, City Paper
This gripping play about love, class and art shows how all four characters contribute to Vincent’s seemingly impossible, yet inevitable, growth from callow youth to immortal artist
 
Paradise Park 02/19/2013
Through March 3, $20-$25, Walnut Street Theatre Studio 5, 825 Walnut St., 215-285-0472, idiopathicridiculopathyconsortium.org.
Mark Cofta, City Paper
Tina Brock’s Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium shows again and again that absurdist theater is out there for anyone willing to let go of rigid plot expectations and plunge into an adventure.
 
The Diary of a Madman 02/19/2013
Through March 10, $10-$30, Sedgwick Theater, 7137 Germantown Ave., 877-238-5596, quintessencetheatre.org.
Mark Cofta, City Paper
David Holman’s surprisingly involving adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s 1835 story swept me away.
MORE STORIES
 
My Romantic History 02/05/2013
Mark Cofta, City Paper
 
THEATER REVIEW: A football play (not that kind) in Assassin 02/01/2013
Mark Cofta
 
THEATER REVIEW: Endgame, an odd choice for the Arden 01/30/2013
Mark Cofta, City Paper
 
Equus 01/29/2013
Mark Cofta, City Paper
 
The Winter’s Tale 01/29/2013
Mark Cofta, City Paper
 
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson 01/22/2013
Mark Cofta, City Paper
 
Theater Review: The Beauty Queen of Leenane 01/22/2013
Mark Cofta, City Paper
 
Exorcism 01/15/2013
Mark Cofta, City Paper


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