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Richard III -- People's Light & Theatre Company

Richard III — People’s Light & Theatre Company

Shakespeare offers directors and performers multiple avenues by which to craft a production of his works. Concentration could be on a character, parallel patterns, or a theme. Samantha Reading leans heavily, and revealingly, on the first, character, while shrewdly employing the others in a compelling, illuminating production of Richard III for People’s Light & Theatre Company.

If you ever wanted…

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Pericles -- Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival

Pericles — Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival

Fashionable though it has become to gush over experimentation and bask in “process,” my firm and decided preference is for the polished and finished. I don’t mind seeing a play go from embryo to completion, but when it comes to theatrical style, clean and precise is my meat.

How lucky then to see something that is experimental but has the patina of the meticulous and the sensibility of the…

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Around the World in 80 Days -- Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival

Around the World in 80 Days — Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival

While at times muddying the action that is supposed to taking place or allowing zaniness to go a tad unbridled, director Russell Treyz grants enough quarter to cogent, cohesive storytelling that his production of “Around the World for 80 Days” for Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival avoids the excesses and cavalier flagrancy that have fatally marred several recent shows that sought to marry mystery…

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Arthur and the Tale of the Red Dragon -- People's Light

Watching Christopher Patrick Mullen laboring back and forth across the People’s Light stage wrestling with a dragon’s tale sets up the farcical silliness of Michael Ogborn’s latest panto, “Arthur and the Tale (or tail?) of the Red Dragon” with a book by director Pete Pryor and jill of all trades, Samantha Bellomo.

Mullen, playing Merlyn, a character who ages in reverse, is a delight throughout.…

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