CURTAIN CALL: Not your run-of-the-mill February love fests

This week's theater roundup includes Becky Shaw at Montgomery Theater, Fever Dream Repertory's Beautiful Child and Little Gem, Inis Nua's first show at their new performance space at First Baptist Church.

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CURTAIN CALL: Not your run-of-the-mill February love fests

POSTED: Tuesday, January 31, 2012, 1:00 PM

Filed Under: Arts | Philly Artists Theater

Each week, Michael Gold breezes past those big-name theater companies to turn a spotlight on Philly's indie stages.

It wouldn’t be February without some amour-themed fare, but kudos to the Montgomery Theater for starting the month with Gina Gionfriddo’s Pulitzer-winning Becky Shaw. The thorny comedy features the Barrymore Award-winning Kim Carson as the unlucky-in-love title character, who is set up on a blind date with an acerbic money-manager. What starts as a generous attempt at matchmaking by newlyweds Suzanna and Andrew quickly proves to be disastrous, both for the hopeful singles and their well-meaning friends. Hopeless romantics be warned: If you can’t stomach love with unconventionally witty twists and turns, stay home.

Feb. 1-25, $23-35, The Montgomery Theater, 124 Main St., Souderton, 215-723-9984, montgomerytheater.org.

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