#2019 Philadelphia Theater Critic&039;s Awards

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2019 Philadelphia Theater Critic's Awards -- The Nominees

2019 Philadelphia Theater Critic’s Awards — The Nominees

You never know when you will enter a theater and see the “best.”

Of a season. Of a year. Of a decade. Or a lifetime.

I don’t go to the theater to find competitive superlatives. I go because of a lifelong passion for seeing stories acted out, a passion that began with television’s Armstrong Circle Theatre and the US Steel Hour and continued when I started, at age 3, going to movies. Seeing actor…

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2019 Philadelphia Theater Critic's Awards -- The Recipients

2019 Philadelphia Theater Critic’s Awards — The Recipients

In the past week, performances by Marcia Saunders (“The Children”), Janis Dardaris (“The Children”), Dana Delany (“Goodnight Nobody”), Ellen McLaughlin (“Midwives”), and Alicia Roper (“A Woman of No Importance”) were so finely etched and individually moving, I would be content if these actresses were the nominees for a 2020 awards that has 11 more months to create candidates.

  You see the…

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2019 Philadelphia Theater Critic's Awards -- The Qualifiers

2019 Philadelphia Theater Critic’s Awards — The Qualifiers

In 2019, I saw and ranked 138 theater productions in the Philadelphia area, which I define as being from New Brunswick, N.J. to Wilmington, Delaware.,

These shows range from national tours of Broadway hits such as “Hamilton” and “Come From Away” to do-it-yourself productions at community theaters.

You’d be surprised. Sometimes the humble and homegrown outshines the lavish and polished. Sometimes…