Princeton Summer Theater
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Review: ‘Appropriate’ at Princeton Summer Theater
In Appropriate, the 2014–2015 Obie Award winner for Best New American Play, playwright (and Princeton alumnus) Branden Jacobs-Jenkins boldly explores family relations, racism, religious bigotry, sex...
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Review: ‘The Crucible’ at Princeton Summer Theater
When you enter the home of the Princeton Summer Theater to see The Crucible, you may wonder at first whether you’ve wandered into the right place. After all, Arthur Miller’s legendary play takes place...
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Review: ‘Spider’s Web’ at Princeton Summer Theater
Spider’s Web ends with the unmasking of a murderer, and it starts with… a taste test. In this play’s opening moments, two veddy proper, blindfold-wearing English gentlemen drink glasses of Port and...
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Review: ‘Pippin’ at Princeton Summer Theater
So many men seem destined To settle for something small, But I won’t rest until I know I’ll have it all… Stephen Schwartz’s lyrics for “Corner of the Sky” sum up everything that the title character of...
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Review: ‘Fool for Love’ at Princeton Summer Theater in Princeton, NJ
Fool for Love is a pretty short play, and its plot isn’t especially complex: A couple of longtime lovers with a volatile history meet to battle again in a seedy motel room in the Mojave Desert. They...
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Review: ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead’ at Princeton Summer Theater in Princeton, NJ
Spoiler Alert: The two main characters in this play die. Well, you probably figured that out, given that the play they’re in is called Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Or maybe you figured it...
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Review: ‘God of Carnage’ at Princeton Summer Theater in Princeton, New Jersey
As Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage opens, two couples meet for a civilized discussion. Their sons have just had a violent playground encounter that cost one of the boys a couple teeth, and the two sets...
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Review: ‘Assassins’ at Princeton Summer Theater
Assassins is about people who lived out their dream – but it’s not the dream we ordinarily think of as “The American Dream.” This audacious musical by Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics) and John...
