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There's something immensely satisfying about a well-constructed play—something that ensures that you will like the play, even if you don't enjoy every moment of it.

Tom Stoppard sometimes makes me feel dumb. His 1966 play Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is the only work of his with which I'm familiar that I don't feel I need footnotes for—and even that's only because I'm so familiar with its source material.

Students of classical studies take note: if you're heading to The Wilma Theater for some good old fashioned Greek mythology, prepare to be surprised. Pleasantly surprised, but surprised nonetheless.

Mary Poppins, or at least Disney's Mary Poppins, makes the British Suffrage movement look like fun. You paint signs and you go out and sing songs about equality.

Linda Griffiths' play, Age of Arousal, currently being produced at the Wilma Theater, takes a different approach, showing things in what is likely a far more realistic light.

The Age of Arousal Ticket Giveaway
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I haven't studied a lot of Brecht. But from what I have studied, I feel very safe in making the assertion that Brecht is either someone that people either adore and worship and elevate, or he's someone whose work people really can't stand. I lean heavily toward the former, which is why I was so excited to see The Wilma Theater's production of .

I worry that you, our readers here at Phillyist, are going to start thinking I'm too nice. I seem to like just about everything. But honestly, that doesn't make me nice. It just means that local theatres are putting up a lot of great work. powerful. I'm guessing a little of Column "A," a little of Column "B."