Friday, July 22, 2016
Controversial performer and monologuist Mike Daisey takes on another controversial performer and monologuist: Donald Trump.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:53AMTuesday, July 19, 2016
Controversial performer and monologuist Mike Daisey takes on another controversial performer and monologuist: Donald Trump.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:13PMThursday, July 14, 2016
BalletX's Summer Series brings technology into dance. But in the contest between human and machine, which one prevails?
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:24AMMonday, May 25, 2015
Mauckingbird's imaginative, gender-bending staging of A Midsummer Night's Dream offers a spectacle that the Facebook generation can sink its teeth right into, notwithstanding the limitations…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:58PMMonday, June 24, 2013
"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger." Nietzsche's dictum, great for individuals seeking motivation, bad for couples incapable of masking mutual resentment. Case in point: Jason Robert Br…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:18PMFriday, May 31, 2013
The Arden Theatre first staged Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music in 1995 at the Arts Bank on Broad and South Streets. Two decades on, they've upstaged the musical with a gorgeously des…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 03:21PMMonday, September 17, 2012
People's Light and Theatre Company presents a moving, majestic production of August Wilson's "Seven Guitars," says critic Jim Rutter.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 03:10PMThursday, September 6, 2012
'Jeff Coons and Ben Dibble Must Die' is 20 minutes of theater-world in-joke delight, then a bit of a time-waster.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 08:07PMTuesday, June 19, 2012
Must the show always go on? In 18 years of theatergoing in Philadelphia, I had never been sent home at intermission because a company could not continue the production — until Saturday.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:59PMThursday, March 8, 2012
Two Philadelphia dance leaders -- Kate Watson-Wallace and Jaamil Kosoko -- and their companies have joined forces as a new “sustainable” collaborative. Jim Rutter talks with them.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 05:58PMMonday, February 13, 2012
This compelling production and Ann Crumb’s chilling performance transfix our gaze long enough to render something beautiful out of tragedy, says critic Jim Rutter.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 04:58PMSunday, February 12, 2012
Kurt Vonnegut grappled fatalistically with the horrors of World War II in his 1969 sci-fi novel "Slaughterhouse-Five" -- and Eric Simonson’s stage adaptation at Curio Theatre Company abso…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 05:11PMA new creative work that attempts to dramatize playwright Tennessee Williams' final moments must transcend available information., says critic Jim Rutter. The solid production at South Cam…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 04:38PMFriday, February 3, 2012
Critic Jim Rutter writes that Jon Marans’ theatrically ambitious but overwrought "A Raw Space," now receiving a stilted world premiere at Bristol Riverside Theatre, started with a solid if…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 02:16PMThursday, November 17, 2011
Until recently Philadelphia’s theater community seemed mired in edgy plays about alienated 30-somethings in dysfunctional families. But four recent productions— all intelligent, challeng…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:51AMMonday, November 7, 2011
Most romantic comedies succeed by indulging fantasy: men want to date out of their league; women want a nice guy they can whip into a socially respectable man. Robin Pond’s Even Steven, at…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:32PMThursday, November 3, 2011
Brat Productions' quick-change romp "Meanwhile ..." show Madi Distefano stretching her writer's chops and a production that has its highs and lows, says critic Jim Rutter.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 08:53PMMonday, October 24, 2011
Philadelphia’s Arden and Wilma theaters open their seasons this month with large-cast plays populated by local actors. That’s a tribute to the growing wealth of local talent available—…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:52AMFriday, April 22, 2011
In Lydia, Octavio Solis captures the mixture of poetry, magic and dysfunction that characterize Hispanic-American families. But he also borrows heavily from America’s most celebrated Anglo…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:34PM 
