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Leonard Bernstein's Candide isn't performed often, and whenever it is, it's usually been given a completely new book. The songs remain the same, as they say, but the script is ever-changing. The version of the show running at the Arden through this Sunday features a new book by John Caird that seems, finally, to have captured the feel of the original Voltaire work from which it was adapted.

starts—it's a rather inauspicious beginning.

Two literary characters and a historical figure walk into a bar...

is not a perfect play. But the Arden's production of it is damned near perfect.

, and that's still pretty much all I can say. It was one of those shows I really wish I'd had someone with me at: I just really wanted to talk to somebody after the show, but my plus-one had to cancel on me, quite literally at the last minute, so there I was, blown away by a performance and with nobody to talk to about it. So I needed some time to process the show. And let me repeat: wow.

I was reared on PBS children's programming. is based, so naturally, I was excited for the play.

I have a serious literary crush on Tony Kushner. Blame come hell or high water.

We haven't gotten around to telling you about the Philadelphia New Play Festival yet (that post is forthcoming), but on Friday, I had the opportunity to see one of the featured plays (most of them open before the festival officially begins), The Arden's .

Roald Dahl is, hands-down, one of my favorite writers. And not just because he wrote . Thirteen years later, I found I didn't remember much of it, so sitting through the Arden's staged adaptation was like a delightful refresher course.

Rha Goddess' "Low"
12:30PM 8/31 - 5PM 9/1

Jean Markovitz

Terrence J. Nolen, Director

. It's a show that we know quite well and we felt that we were in a good position to be tough critics if that's what was required of us.

Philadelphia does love its centennial celebrations. Here we are, still in the throes of the Franklin tricentennial madness, and we've decided to commemorate a bicentennial birthday, too! The 200th birthday in question in this case belongs to Edwin Forrest, famous Philadelphia actor and namesake of the Forrest Theatre. To mark this milestone anniversary of his birth, Mayor Street has declared today "Edwin Forrest Day."