525 stories by "Toby Zinman"
A small town's main business"tourism" dries up and bit by bit small businesses follow.Â
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This is not the admiring smirk or a contemptuous Ha-ha!, but fall-off-your-chair, eye-mopping hilarity.
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Mozart's Don Giovanni is the greatest opera ever written. Don't take my word for it"what do I know, I'm a dilettante"but that was the opinion…
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Take the trigger warnings seriously: This is ordeal by theater.
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This remarkable adaptation of a century-old novel concludes EgoPo's Harlem Renaissance season
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Sometimes cynical, ultra-cool critical disdain"much in evidence these days" just won't do. I loved this show; it's filled with wonderful songs and wonderful singers, an…
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At 15th & Bainbridge"only a few blocks from Philadelphia Theatre Company's stage at Broad & Lombard"there stood a legendary dive bar called Emerson's. Jazz greats"John…
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What a wackadoodle of a show! Part party, part pop musical, the Walnut Street Theatre's production of Jimmy Buffett's hit is an enjoyable evening, but…
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I should have such a problem all the time: how to review a show that is just about perfect.Â
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And now, "live in consort," the six wives of Henry VIII: "divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived."
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Well, of course I know they were clapping for the cast and not the characters, but there was something creepy about hundreds of people"some of…
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You'll find much beauty in the vast halls of Convention Center.Â
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Leave it to Inis Nua, the theater company whose name means "New Island" and is dedicated to producing plays from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.…
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Toby Zinman looks at three plays now New York stages.
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Our dilettante at large reviews Academy of Vocal Arts' South Philly themed production of Donizetti's comic opera
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In the political news in the past few years, the concern has been not with the lifespan of facts, but the lifespan of lies
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The Dilettante at Large is at large again, writing about the culture as an enjoyer rather than an expert. Her latest pleasure was Opera Philly's…
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Terrific actors playing lovable characters, important issues, snappy dialogue, and plenty of comedy
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A play is about acting as well as the political act of making theater as well as about getting it wrong through cultural appropriation
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Take it from this old broad, Broads, 1812 Productions' new show, is an entertaining 75 minutes"if you like funny songs and dirty jokes.
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Benjamin Bagby takes on the role of the scop, the storyteller
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Are you missing those bad hairdos and baggy blue suits of 1969?
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Adrienne Kennedy's crushingly beautiful play, Ohio State Murders, is making a long overdue debut on Broadway.
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This new musical comedy, a Big Broadway rewrite of the 1959 classic movie, Some Like it Hot, offers fabulosity: huge production numbers, flashy costumes, marvelous…
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The Crucible, has withstood all manner of productions, from starry Broadway to high school drama club, and it will withstand Sarah Ruhl's crass replay, Becky Nurse of Salem
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