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Friday, November 11, 2016

Review: ‘Buyer & Cellar’ at Bucks County Playhouse by Tim Dunleavy

Say what you will about Barbra Streisand – whether you love her massive talent or ego, or not, you have to admit there’s no one else like her. And few people can say that with as much au…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:35PM
Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Review: ‘Working: a Musical’ at Bristol Riverside Theatre by Tim Dunleavy

Working isn’t a typical musical. There’s no plot, no resolution, no love story. Yet the tale it tells is an absorbing one. By using words and music to examine the relationship of people …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:04AM
Monday, November 7, 2016

Review: ‘Out of the City’ at Passage Theatre by Tim Dunleavy

Leslie Ayvazian’s comedy Out of the City opens in the lobby of a Bed and Breakfast in the Poconos. Carol and her husband Matt are there for the weekend to celebrate Carol’s sixtieth birt…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:54AM
Monday, October 31, 2016

Review: ‘Breathe Smoke’ at Orbiter 3 by Tim Dunleavy

Douglas Williams’ Breathe Smoke, a world premiere being presented by the Orbiter 3 Collective, tells the story of four people whose public lives and private lives are markedly different. I…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:37PM

Review: ‘Promises, Promises’ at the Ritz Theatre Company by Tim Dunleavy

Promises, Promises opened on Broadway in 1968, and while the world it depicts seemed relevant back then, today that world has largely vanished. It’s set in the Manhattan skyscraper home of…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:05PM
Monday, October 24, 2016

Review: ‘The Rocky Horror Show’ at Bucks County Playhouse by Tim Dunleavy

When you take your seat at Bucks County Playhouse and find a paper bag on your seat filled with props – including a baggie full of rice to throw at the stage during a wedding scene – you…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:51PM
Saturday, October 22, 2016

Review: Rosanne Cash at The Merriam Theater by Tim Dunleavy

Rosanne Cash admitted on Thursday night that she looks at the world through a “peculiar prism.” In one of the songs she performed that night, “Modern Blue,” she sang of visiting Barc…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:35AM
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Review: ‘Mother Courage and Her Children’ at Quintessence Theatre by Tim Dunleavy

Janis Dardaris is a force to be reckoned with. As Mother Courage, standing firm with her hands on her hips and wearing a white, shapeless frock covered by a blue sweater, she is a tower of s…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:04PM
Monday, October 10, 2016

Review: ‘The Birds’ at Curio Theatre Company, in Philadelphia by Tim Dunleavy

When you think of The Birds, you probably think of Tippi Hedren running for her life through the streets of a California town – a town inexplicably under attack by every winged creature wi…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:38AM
Saturday, October 8, 2016

‘The Other Place’ at Walnut Street Theatre Independence Studio on 3 in Philadelphia by Tim Dunleavy

The Other Place seems at first like a straightforward drama: Juliana, a brilliant and highly esteemed 59-year-old scientist, is beginning to suffer from memory loss. This brings her into con…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:25PM
Monday, October 3, 2016

Review: ‘The Mountaintop’ at People’s Light & Theatre Company by Tim Dunleavy

The Mountaintop is a fantasia rooted in one of the most tragic events of the twentieth century. Set on the final night in the life of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Katori Hall’s play takes …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:55PM
Sunday, October 2, 2016

Review: ‘A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline’ at Bristol Riverside Theatre in Bristol, PA by Tim Dunleavy

A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline marks the second time in two years that Bristol Riverside Theatre has staged a show about the life of Cline, one of country music’s greatest stars. (Always�…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:23AM
Saturday, September 24, 2016

2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘King John’ at Revolution Shakespeare by Tim Dunleavy

King John, one of Shakespeare’s lesser-known history plays, is filled with intrigue, betrayal, and a pair of kings who are constantly threatening to go to war. In other words, it’s perfe…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:05PM
Friday, September 23, 2016

Review: ‘Stupid Fucking Bird’ at the Arden Theatre in Philadelphia by Tim Dunleavy

It was just two and a half years ago that the Arden Theatre presented a version of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters that used a fresh, slangy translation. It took a musty classic and made it …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:56AM
Tuesday, September 20, 2016

2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘The Elementary Spacetime Show’ by Tim Dunleavy

The Elementary Spacetime Show is an unusual musical about a subject you don’t often see onstage: teenage suicide. With music, book and lyrics by César Alvarez, the show treads the line be…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:16AM
Sunday, September 18, 2016

2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Billosophy: Life, Circus, Death’ by Tim Dunleavy

Bill Forchion is an accomplished circus performer, a veteran of Cirque du Soleil, and Ringling Brothers. He’s also a real charmer, with a smile the size of a big top and the stage persona …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:14PM
Friday, September 16, 2016

2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Surface Tension’ at Tangle Movement Arts by Tim Dunleavy

In Surface Tension, the Philadelphia-based circus arts company Tangle Movement Arts spotlights the skills of six female performers. They use ropes, swings, bungee cords, and aerial silks in …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:30PM

Review: ‘Mrs. Warren’s Profession’ at Lantern Theatre in Philadelphia, PA by Tim Dunleavy

A wordy drama from the 19th century about capitalism, duplicity, and women’s role in English society. Sounds like it might be rather tough to get through, doesn’t it? Well, don’t be fo…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:25AM
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘I Fucking Dare You’ at The Berserker Residents by Tim Dunleavy

The Berserker Residents, a Philadelphia-based troupe, has been writing and performing inspired comedy for years. Their irreverent 2010 offering The Very Merry Xmas Carol Holiday Adventure Sh…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:12AM

2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Notes of a Native Song’ by Tim Dunleavy

“This isn’t the Ken Burns musical documentary on James Baldwin,” said Stew about two-thirds of the way through his latest show, Notes of a Native Song. He was right. Notes of a Native …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:27AM
Monday, September 12, 2016

2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘One-Man Apocalypse Now’ by Tim Dunleavy

The title tells you all you need to know about Chris Davis’ new show at the Fringe Festival. When you enter the performance space – a small room inside a Southwest Philly warehouse that�…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:56PM
Sunday, September 11, 2016

2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Spherus’ by Tim Dunleavy

Greg Kennedy bills himself as an “Innovative Juggler,” and he lives up to that billing in Spherus, his show now running as part of the 201 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Kennedy’s style…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:09PM
Friday, September 9, 2016

2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Animal Farm to Table’ at The Renegade Company by Tim Dunleavy

Animal Farm to Table isn’t like any other show in the Fringe Festival. The show, conceived and directed by Mike Durkin for The Renegade Company, is performed on an actual (but small) worki…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:29PM
Monday, August 22, 2016

Review: ‘Cake Off’ at Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, PA by Tim Dunleavy

Who would have thought that 2016 would be the year we saw not one, but two musicals about… food preparation? Just six months ago, Bucks County Playhouse premiered A Taste of Things to Come…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:12PM
Sunday, August 7, 2016

Review: ‘Tommy and Me’ at Theatre Exile in Philadelphia by Tim Dunleavy

About halfway through Ray Didinger’s new play Tommy and Me, one of the characters mentions Joe Kuharich. On the night I attended the play, the audience responded with a round of derisive l…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:28PM
Friday, August 5, 2016

Review: ‘Fool for Love’ at Princeton Summer Theater in Princeton, NJ by Tim Dunleavy

Fool for Love is a pretty short play, and its plot isn’t especially complex: A couple of longtime lovers with a volatile history meet to battle again in a seedy motel room in the Mojave De…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:28PM
Monday, August 1, 2016

Review: ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’ at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival in Center Valley, PA by Tim Dunleavy

The new production of Love’s Labour’s Lost at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival continues a tradition the festival began several summers ago of creating a production in a fashion similar…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:48AM
Friday, July 29, 2016

Review: ‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona’ at Shakespeare in Clark Park in Philadelphia by Tim Dunleavy

For its eleventh annual summer offering, Shakespeare in Clark Park is offering a take on The Two Gentlemen of Verona that feels light and airy as the summer breeze wafting across the park. I…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:14PM
Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Review: ‘Charles Busch’s The Divine Sister’ at Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, PA by Tim Dunleavy

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers haven’t even said grace. So says the Mother Superior of St. Veronica’s Convent School, the lead character in the new play at the Bucks County Pla…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:51AM
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Review: ‘I Am Not My Motherland’ at Orbiter 3 in Philadelphia by Tim Dunleavy

I Am Not My Motherland, the latest play from the Orbiter 3 playwriting collective, is about a medical operation that has complications, and about a relationship between two surgeons that als…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:42AM
Monday, July 18, 2016

Review: ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival in Center Valley, PA by Tim Dunleavy

Scholars, theatergoers and activists have been debating The Taming of the Shrew for about four centuries. Just what was Shakespeare, with his tale of the warring lovers Katherina and Petruch…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:12AM

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May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards