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• Posted Phillyist Reviews... Early in the Mourning to Phillyist
  Left to right: Mark Cairns, Helen McCrane, John Devennie. Photo credit: Shawn O'Shea. Early in the Mourning is a new play by P. Seth Bauer, currently showing at the Plays and Players Theater. On a howling New Year's night in Massachusetts, an elderly Jewish couple try to come to terms with the loss of their son—a middle-aged, homosexual teacher of writing—whom they never quite accepted during his life. Their grieving process is first complicated...
• Posted Playlist Rewind... Herb Alpert and Lani Hall to Phillyist
  Photo credit: Greg Allen Last week at the Annenberg Center, Phillyist attended a performance by trumpeter Herb Alpert and vocalist Lani Hall. Upon hearing about the show, this Phillyist's mother expressed surprise that Herb Alpert could still be alive, and indeed, the average age of the audience was remarkably high. Alpert began the show inviting these gray-haired fans to shout out questions, and by the end of the night he had realized his mistake:...
• Posted Phillyist Playlist: Herb Alpert and Lani Hall at the Annenberg Center to Phillyist
  Alpert and Hall, Photo credit Greg Allen Tomorrow night, the husband and wife jazz team Herb Alpert and Lani Hall will perform songs from their new album, Anything Goes, at the Annenberg Center. Herb Alpert is a trumpet-playing legend: an eight-time Grammy® winner, bandleader of the Tijuana Brass and co-founder of A&M records. Among the friends of Phillyist with longer memories, Herb is famous for his 1965 album Whipped Cream, the cover of which...
• Posted Phillyist Reviews... The History Boys to Phillyist
  Bad theatre enrages me. I don't get angry for myself; I imagine the rest of the audience, or at least a portion of it, people who don't usually go to the theatre, people who came on a whim, or a first date, who are now thinking, "Plays. What's the point?" I imagine these people heading home to their televisions, Playstations and email, never again returning to the theatre, and I want to scream at the...
• Posted Phillyist reviews... Long Day's Journey Into Night to Phillyist
  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. O’Neill based Long Day’s Journey on his family’s history, and the troubled Tyrones are alter-egos for his mother, father, brother and O’Neill himself. The story begins after breakfast, with the Tyrone family waiting...