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New This Week Didn't Your Father Have This Talk With You? (Act II Playhouse) Tony Braithwaite relives the horrors of teaching middle-school boys sex ed. Opens Thursday.

Ben Dibble, a man of many roles in Flashpoint Theatre Company's "Herringbone." (Ian Guzzone)
Ben Dibble, a man of many roles in Flashpoint Theatre Company's "Herringbone." (Ian Guzzone)Read more

New This Week

Didn't Your Father Have This Talk With You? (Act II Playhouse) Tony Braithwaite relives the horrors of teaching high-school boys sex ed. Opens Thursday.

Continuing

Reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield (W.R.), Jim Rutter (J.R.), and Toby Zinman (T.Z.).

Read complete reviews at www.inquirer.com/theater

Andy: A Popera (Bearded Ladies/Opera Philadelphia) The cabaret stage of this work-in-development will change nightly as it examines Warhol's life and the question, "Is immortality worth dying for?" Ends Sunday.

Bach at Leipzig (People's Light and Theatre Company) Clever comedy pits six musicians in an 18th-century "American Idol." Through Aug. 10. - J.R.

Defending the Caveman (Penn's Landing Playhouse) Philly native Vince Valentine stages a one-man couples-therapy session on reconciling the differences between the sexes. Through Aug. 24.

Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? (Broadway Theatre of Pitman) Watch a class of parochial-school kids grow from kindergarten to graduation. Through Aug. 3.

Hamlet (Delaware Shakespeare Theatre) Something is still rotten in the state of Denmark - but it isn't this terrific production. Ends Sunday. - J.R.

Herringbone (Flashpoint Theater) All singing, all dancing, all acting - and all by one possessed guy. the unbelievably talented Ben Dibble. Through July 29. - T.Z.

Macbeth (Delaware Shakespeare Company) Ambition, witches, bloody doings all around. Through Aug. 3.

The 39 Steps (Hedgerow Theatre) Four actors tackle 150 characters in this farcical take on Hitchcock's movie version of John Buchan's thriller. Through Aug. 17.

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Bucks County Playhouse) Three siblings and a muscle-bound wild card make gloomy, loopy hay out of Chekhov. Through Aug. 10.

Xanadu (Mazzeppa Productions) Cliches, Greek gods, roller skates - who could ask for more? Great fun. Ends Saturday. - W.R.