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Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival 2022 Main Stage Review: One Singular Sensation “A Chorus Line” at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival at the Labuda Center for the Performing Arts on the Campus of DeSales University (Closed Sunday, July 10, 2022)

June 20, 2022 | awards, pennsylvania, public > | "A Chorus Line", Andrew Ruggieri (Mike), Andy Peterson, Bianca Bulgarelli (Bebe), Bob Avian, Brandon Moreno (Larry), Campus of DeSales University, Clint Maddox Thompson (Al), David Grindrod, David M. Greenberg, Eddie Martin Morales (Paul), Edward Kleban, Emma Vielbig (Maggie), James Harkness, James Kirkwood, Jaylen Axel (Butch), Joseph Papp, Josh Curran (Roy), Josiah Behrens (Tom), Julia Feeley (Judy), Justin Lopez (Patrick), Kathryn Brunner (Val), Labuda Center for the Performing Arts, Lauren Emily Alagna (Kristine), Lilianna Solum (Lois), Luis Villabon, Madison Finney (Shelia), Marlena López Hilderley (Tricia), Marvin Hamlisch, Matthew Aaron Liotine (Greg & Dance Captain), Michael McDonald, Milan Magaña (Diana), Morgan Harrison (Vicki), Musa Hitomi (Connie), Nicholas Dante, Nick Schrier (Frank), Patrick Higgins, Paul Watt-Morse (Don), Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Pulitzer Prize, Randy Lawson, Richard Latta, Shaun-Avery Williams (Richie), Sissy Bell, The New York Shakespeare Festival, Thomas Henke (Bobby), Tony Award Winner

The original production of “A Chorus Line” opened in 1975 Off-Broadway at The Public Theater and transferred to The Shubert Theater on Broadway three months later to be nominated for twelve Tony Awards, winning nine and being awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was a groundbreaking musical that was the first Broadway show to be performed without an intermission…

Off-Broadway Review: “Skin of our Teeth” at Theatre for New Audience’s Polonsky Shakespeare Center

March 3, 2017 | Off-Broadway, sanctuary city > | Arin Arbus, Brooklyn, Fredric March, Helen Hayes, Mary Martin, Polonsky Shakespeare Center, Pulitzer Prize, Skin of Our Teeth, Tallulah Bankhead, Theatre for New Audience, Thornton Wilder

If ever there was an allegorical play, this is it. Thornton Wilder’s “The Skin of Our Teeth” was written in 1942, won the Pulitzer Prize, had two apparently great productions on Broadway – starring the likes of Mary Martin, Tallulah Bankhead, Fredric March and Helen Hayes—then poorly received ones, and subsequently was deemed extremely difficult to pull off. Well, Theatre…