Theater: New and Noteworthy
Fringe Festival Philly Fringe 2016 careers into its second full week. The Tribe's celebrated Antihero returns for a rejiggered reiteration (through Friday). Eugène Ionesco's The Chairs (through next Sunday) gives the absurdist classic a fine run. Whatever
Fringe Festival
Philly Fringe 2016 careers into its second full week. The Tribe's celebrated Antihero returns for a rejiggered reiteration (through Friday). Eugène Ionesco's The Chairs (through next Sunday) gives the absurdist classic a fine run. Whatever
Cat-A-Strophe
is, you ought to see it (through next Sunday).
The Elementary Spacetime Show
(Sunday; Tuesday through Saturday) is a comic/existential look at teen suicide, but with an empathic embrace.
Julius Caesar. Spared Parts
(Thursday through Saturday) is Romeo Castellucci's de- and reconstruction of Shakespeare's political tragedy, and Third World Bunfight's version of Verdi's opera
Macbeth
premieres Saturday. The Sincerity Project (ends Sunday) continues the renewal every two years of a grand 24-year theater epic.
For dates, times, and venues for all curated and noncurated shows:
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New This Week
Bridges of Madison County
(Media Theatre, through Oct. 23). Based on the book, not the film, this musical has World War II, the Iowa State Fair, and lots of smooching.
Electra (Villanova Theater, Villanova University, Wednesday through Oct. 2). The House of Atreus - now there's a dysfunctional family. Sophocles as reimagined by Frank McGuinness.
A Fierce Kind of Love (Blackbox Studio Theater, Kaleidoscope Performing Arts Center, Ursinus College, Collegeville, 4 and 8 p.m. Monday). A special play about the differently abled, and a cast with such abilities.
How We Got On (Azuka Theatre, Wednesday-Oct. 9). Premiere of Idris Goodwin's paean to the 1980s roots of rap and hip-hop. Starts Wednesday through Oct. 9.
Sweeney Todd (Broadway Pitman Theatre, Pitman, N.J.). Everyone's favorite musical about bloodthirsty serial murders, with a requisite dollop of goodhearted song. Through Oct. 9.
Continuing
Bathing in Moonlight
(McCarter Theatre, Princeton). This world premiere reunites playwright Nilo Cruz and director Emily Mann, in a story about a struggling Cuban American family, the priest who helps them, and forbidden love. Through Oct. 9.
Greater Tuna (Montgomery Theatre). A send-up of rural life in Texas' third-smallest town. Through Oct. 2.
Electile Dysfunction (Act II Playhouse, Ambler). Just in time for the political season, a satire about politics. Through Oct. 9.
The King of East Jabip (Eagle Theatre, Hammonton). World premiere of Kelly McCarthy's play on getting older and getting . . . older. A promising topic, but the play is too encrusted with cliches to do it justice. Through Oct. 9. - J.R.
Mrs. Warren's Profession (Lantern Theater). G.B. Shaw's trenchant social drama portrays a mother and daughter. Two working women - but perhaps not what people expect. Through Oct. 9.
Noises Off (SALT Performing Arts, Chester Springs). Dinner-theater version of the knockabout farce. Ends Sunday.
South Pacific (Walnut Street Theatre). It'll be hard to wash the tunes from this Rodgers and Hammerstein classic out of your head. Through Oct. 23.
Stupid F#*@ing Bird (Arden Theatre Company). Arden cofounder Aaron Posner brings to town his comic 21st-century take on Chekhov. Thursday through Oct. 15.
The War of the Roses (Delaware Theatre Company, Wilmington). Love means never having to stop smashing all the stuff your former loved one holds dear. Through Oct. 2.