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David Fox

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REVIEW: Disney’s Aladdin at the Academy of Music – A Magic Carpet Ride with an Unscheduled Stop

This hugely energetic show favors spectacle over characters, but the audience doesn’t seem to mind.

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REVIEW: In Maria Marten, Legitimate Performance Meets Variety Entertainment

Philadelphia Artists’ Collective’s delightful show captures the delights—and some of the poignant heart—of early melodrama.

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REVIEW: 11th Hour’s Big Red Sun Leaves Big Lingering Questions

This serious, ambitious show feels like its still a work in progress.

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REVIEW: At Lantern’s Don’t Dress for Dinner, There’s a Heavy Hand in the Kitchen

Less here would be so much more.

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REVIEW: Fun Home at the Arden Theatre Is Family Drama Seen Up Close

This accomplished, moving production puts the audience’s imagination to work.

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REVIEW: Inis Nua’s Charolais is a Bovine Comedy

The wonderful Corinna Burns shines especially brightly in this droll, delightful show.

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REVIEW: Orbiter 3’s A People: Show Far, Show Good

Whether this earnest, winning piece is a successful play is an open question.

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REVIEW: In Turning Off the Morning News, Christopher Durang Returns with a Bang

This brilliantly acerbic, absurdist comedy gleefully thumbs its nose at trigger warnings.

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REVIEW: Reliving the ‘60s with Catch-22 at Curio Theatre

Is this once-iconic satire still viable, or a historical curiosity? That is the question.

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REVIEW: In Our Few and Evil Days at Inis Nua, Family History Goes Awry

What’s most unsettling here happens quietly in the shadows.

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REVIEW: In 1812 Productions’ Hope and Gravity, Romance has its Ups and Downs

Michael Hollinger’s funny and clever play could use more gravity.

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REVIEW: Sing the Body Electric at Theatre Exile is a World Lit by Lightning

In Michael Hollinger’s perplexing but enchanting play, getting there is the best part.

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REVIEW: A Sparkling and Poignant La Traviata at AVA

The vocal standards are high, and the pleasure of discovering new talent always exhilarating.

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Six Questions with Daniela Mack, Opera Philadelphia’s Carmen

Mack, who opened the season creating a new role, is now back in an iconic one.

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REVIEW: With Madaket Road, a Long, Intriguing Journey Comes to a Close

John Guare’s monumental Lydie Breeze trilogy ends movingly, if not entirely clearly.