New and Noteworthy: Theater
New This Week The 39 Steps (Bristol Riverside Theatre) Four actors play scores of characters in this zippy Hitchcock homage. Previews Tuesday, Wednesday, opens Thursday.
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New This Week
The 39 Steps (Bristol Riverside Theatre) Four actors play scores of characters in this zippy Hitchcock homage. Previews Tuesday, Wednesday, opens Thursday.
As You Like It (Quintessence Theatre Group) Nobody doesn't love this Shakespeare comedy, Quintessence's first. Previews Wednesday-Friday, opens Saturday.
Macbeth (Revolution Shakespeare) Put the Scottish play in a Philly park and pretend it's New Orleans. Opens Friday.
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Reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield (W.R.), Jim Rutter (J.R.), and Toby Zinman (T.Z.).
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9 to 5: The Musical (Walnut Street Theatre) Lively, funny, with an excellent cast belting out Dolly Parton's songs. Through Oct. 19. - T.Z.
The Addams Family (Media Theatre) Jeff Coon and Jennie Eisenhower go goth as Gomez and Morticia. Through Nov. 2.
Arcadia (Lantern Theatre Company) Tom Stoppard's past-and-present meditation on, well, everything. In previews, opens Wednesday.
Communicating Doors (Hedgerow Theatre) It's Alan Ayckbourne, so of course those hotel doors aren't just hotel doors - they're time machines! Through next Sunday.
The Civil War (Eagle Theatre) A musical montage about America's tragic almost-divorce. Through next Sunday.
Fences (People's Light and Theatre) Michael Genet is magnificent in this fine production of one of August Wilson's stories of 20th-century African American life. Through next Sunday. - J.R.
Jekyll and Hyde (Broadway Theatre of Pitman) A tuneful and two-faced thriller set in foggy 1880s London. Through next Sunday.
La Bête (Arden Theatre) Scott Greer's vulgar "Beast" upends a 17th-century acting troupe in this marvelous production of David Hirson's all-rhymed-couplets play. Through Oct. 12. - T.Z.
Love Letters (Delaware Theater Company) Two characters - played by Daniel Davis and The Waltons' Michael Learned - explore a 50-year relationship. Through next Sunday.
Rounding Third (Act II Playhouse) If the Taney Dragons' splendid summer didn't fill your Little League cup, try this well-done tale of two coaches. Through Oct. 12. - W.R.
Souvenir: A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins (Montgomery Theater) How a woman devoid of talent made her way to Carnegie Hall. Ends Sunday.