Thursday, May 9, 2013
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Trying to make Shakespeare more accessible to kids via animated robots and modern English
Linked From City Paper (Philadelphia) at 07:22AMThursday, April 18, 2013
Jared Michael Delaney’s first full-length play, presented by Inis Nua Theatre Company, barrages us with ridiculousness. Adam Altman, Harry Smith and Delaney himself are dim-witted Irish la…
Linked From City Paper (Philadelphia) at 06:57AMThursday, April 11, 2013
“Who steals my purse steals trash,” says Iago in Othello. But if you doubt that Shakespeare knew the power of money — and its ability to corrupt — look no further than his Timon of A…
Linked From City Paper (Philadelphia) at 06:21AMThursday, April 4, 2013
Houdini’s Wikipedia page provides more excitement about his showmanship than this play.
Linked From City Paper (Philadelphia) at 07:41AMThursday, March 28, 2013
Writers talking about writing sounds deadly dull, but not in Theresa Rebeck’s capable hands. Her play Seminar reveals writing — here, fiction, at which she excels, as well as playwriting…
Linked From City Paper (Philadelphia) at 08:00AMHenry V is officially categorized as one of Shakespeare’s histories, though to me it’s more specific than that: It’s his Boy Play. Don’t get me wrong. It’s a fine play, at points a…
Linked From City Paper (Philadelphia) at 08:00AMThe Walnut Street Theatre fits one serious contemporary play into each season of musicals and crowd-pleasers, and David Lindsay-Abaire’s 2011 Broadway hit Good People fills that role this …
Linked From City Paper (Philadelphia) at 08:00AMThursday, March 21, 2013
You might be tempted to assume that A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 play about a family in Chicago striving for a better life, is an important part of our theatrical past. T…
Linked From City Paper (Philadelphia) at 05:05PMThe East Hull native’s drama about his city’s once-thriving fishing industry receives a stunning Wilma Theater North American premiere.
Linked From City Paper (Philadelphia) at 05:05PMThursday, March 7, 2013
Hurlyburly is crude, rude and deep, despite its main characters’ shallowness, and packs a wallop.
Linked From City Paper (Philadelphia) at 08:22AMThursday, February 28, 2013
This gripping play about love, class and art shows how all four characters contribute to Vincent’s seemingly impossible, yet inevitable, growth from callow youth to immortal artist.
Linked From City Paper (Philadelphia) at 08:15AMThursday, February 21, 2013
David Holman’s surprisingly involving adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s 1835 story swept me away.
Linked From City Paper (Philadelphia) at 09:05PMTheatre Exile's The North Plan attempts to cross Homeland with My Name Is Earl.
Linked From City Paper (Philadelphia) at 08:06AMThursday, February 14, 2013
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
David Schulner’s two-person play reveals a seemingly ordinary love story’s 50-year arc in 90 minutes, from awkward first date to final bedside goodbye. In Bi Jean Ngo and Griffin Stanton…
Linked From City Paper (Philadelphia) at 08:22PMThursday, February 7, 2013
Labor strikes tend to be extraordinarily high-stakes pieces of street theater. So it’s not surprising that a recent strike by 27 stagehands at Broad Street’s Suzanne Roberts Theatre very…
Linked From City Paper (Philadelphia) at 08:31AMThursday, January 31, 2013
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Thursday, December 20, 2012
A heartwarming story, an innovative experiment in puppetry, physical comedy and clowning.
Linked From City Paper (Philadelphia) at 09:59AMFriday, November 30, 2012
And what do they talk about in Lucile Lichtblau’s elegant, smart, riveting new play, being given a knockout premiere production at Theatre Exile? The drudgery of daily work life. How to fl…
Linked From City Paper (Philadelphia) at 08:17AMLocal theaters get into the spirit of the season with Scrooge, young Santa and elves on strike.
Linked From City Paper (Philadelphia) at 06:19AMWednesday, November 21, 2012
Thursday, November 8, 2012
I’m always surprised by how small actress Cathy Simpson looks on stage, because her performances become gigantic in my memory.
Linked From City Paper (Philadelphia) at 07:49AMA lot of hyperactivity can't overshadow the clever wordplay and incisive ideas about sexuality, celebrity and art in director Kevin Glaccum’s colorful production.
Linked From City Paper (Philadelphia) at 07:49AMMark St. Germain imagines the dialogue between two titanic thinkers in a way that only a hack writer could, turning it into a stream of platitudes and cute aphorisms.
Linked From City Paper (Philadelphia) at 07:03AMThursday, November 1, 2012
