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Phillyist has been reading and reading about Eugene O’Neill’s masterpiece for years, and so we watched Simpatico Theatre Project’s production of Long Day’s Journey into Night in a state of rapture. The play’s run ends on Sunday: you should see this.

"Women in prison" was, once upon a time, quite the popular film genre. Not usually such a popular play genre, though that didn't stop Marsha Norman from writing , a play about a recently-released female inmate currently being produced by Simpatico Theatre Project, although it probably should have.

No bones about it: Simpatico Theatre Project's latest play, , is a weird show. And the timing of its production, although accidental, makes it weirder. This review is coming in late because I've been struggling with how to write a review of a dark comedy about a school shooting, when earlier on the day I saw the production, news of a school shooting in Ohio broke; the next day, one would be attempted in our own backyard. Because it is a comedy. A real comedy. The kind that makes the audience laugh out loud – first with the self-conscious knowledge that they shouldn't, and then with the mentality that "it's okay, everyone else is doing it, too."

Lanford Wilson is a great playwright who is sometimes a little difficult to produce. There's a lot of depth and subtext to his plays that are challenging to capture. When a production nails Wilson's script, they really nail it. When they fail, the results can be embarrassingly dull. But more often than not, productions of Lanford Wilson plays fall somewhere in the middle. And, for better or worse, that's where the Simpatico Theatre Project's production of , well, falls.

Yikes! I must not be very good at this gig, because this is the second time since I took up editorial duties last February that I need to apologize to an outstanding cast for my very un-critic-like behavior. I came in late. To a tiny theatre that you enter by walking pretty much on the stage. For whatever reason, I got the theatre location wrong. By about thirty blocks. I made good time, but not great time, and I missed the first five or so minutes of Simpatico Theatre Project's production of Patient A.

Good! Because tonight, Simpatico Theatre Project will be hosting trivia night at Vesuvio (8th and Fitzwater). For $10 per person (with a free drink!), you and your bestest trivia buds can compete against other nerds trivia geniuses for sure-to-be-cool prizes.

follows a handful of Oberlin college students between 1964 and 1972, recounting their ancedotal reactions to the changing political and social atmosphere scenes, with cast members switching between a small variety of roles as: protestors, soldiers, radio DJs, concerned parents, and students less focused on the fate of the world and more focused on their GPA.

We’ll be back in Philadelphia tomorrow (after an extended stay with the folks in Texas), and we’ve certainly picked a good theatre weekend to return for!

We’re still Deep in the Heart of Texas, as it were, but our love for performing arts in Philadelphia knows no bounds. Keep reading for exciting upcoming events!

Even while on vacation in Texas, we’re still keeping track of what’s going on in Philadelphia’s Theatre Scene. Read on!

We’d like to apologize for getting these out late this week. We know that nothing we can ever say or do will make it up to you. But if you’re anything like us, you’re a bit forgetful with your page-a-day calendar, and according to it, it still Wednesday. So we’re just going to pretend that we think today is Wednesday and leave it at that.