Theater: New and Noteworthy
New This Week Other Desert Cities (Bucks County Playhouse). Brooke comes home for Christmas, thinking she has big news - but her parents have some of their own. Celebrity cast in a much-praised play. Saturday through Sept. 2.
New This Week
Other Desert Cities
(Bucks County Playhouse). Brooke comes home for Christmas, thinking she has big news - but her parents have some of their own. Celebrity cast in a much-praised play. Saturday through Sept. 2.
Hairspray (Surflight Theatre, Beach Haven, N.J.) 1962 Baltimore is the setting for a crazy musical about dancing, family, and racial segregation. Tuesday through Aug. 27.
Hero School (Theatre Horizon, Norristown). Interactive theater event between kid actors and audience of all ages, in a quest to achieve superhero status. Through Aug. 27.
West Side Story: School Edition (Moorestown Theater Company, Moorestown). A production featuring 64 teenagers. Wednesday through Friday.
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Reviewed by Tirdad Derakhshani (T.D.), Hugh Hunter (H.H.), and Jim Rutter (J.R.).
Ah, Wilderness! (East Lynne Theatre Company, Cape May). Eugene O'Neill in a comic vein. A charming production, with good actors who evince a familiar world now much in the past. Through Sept. 2. - H.H.
Around the World in 80 Days (Hedgerow Theatre, Rose Valley). Hedgerow specializes in affectionate farcical renditions of epic adventures - with tiny (in this case, five-person) casts. Ends Sunday.
Broadway Then & Now (Bristol Riverside Theatre). A midsummer big band show-tune review. Sunday and Aug. 16-19.
The Gin Game (Cape May Stage). The enduringly popular 1978 Pulitzer Prize winner, about a friendship at a nursing home. Through Sept. 22.
Godspell (Media Theatre, Media). This version of the musical features a cast of all ages and backgrounds. Through Aug. 27.
Moon Over Buffalo (People's Light, Malvern). Ken Ludwig's look back at showbiz and marriage as of 1953. Despite great moments by the lead actors, this production, alas, seems corny and dated. Ends Sunday. - J.R.
My Fair Lady (Bucks County Center for Performing Arts, Doylestown). Eliza Doolittle drives her teacher nuts. Ends Sunday.
Newsies (Surflight Theatre, Beach Haven, N.J.). Read all about it! The Disney musical about the newsboy strike of 1899. Ends Sunday.
Tommy and Me (Theater Exile/FringeArts). The popular true-life tale of Ray Didinger and Eagles wide receiver Tommy McDonald. Too sentimental, it does best with the childhood story, less well with the adult end. Ends next Sunday. - T.D.
Wreck of the Spanish Armada (Aerodrome, 251 Ranger Rd., Cape May Airport). Bill Sterritt's love story/adventure. Monday-Thursday until Labor Day; then Friday-Sunday through mid-October.