Philadelphia-born Quiara Alegría Hudes sets her newest play in a North Philly bar, against a backdrop of family and civic unrest.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:03PMThe special effects in Ivo Van Hove’s stunningly radical production of The Crucible threaten to overwhelm Arthur Miller’s eloquent plea for decency and integrity.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:26PMSome plays are too traumatic to sit through. I found myself in that bind last week, watching The Father and Blackbird— both well written and directed, both powerfully performed, both deali…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:37PMHow could Jews, of all people, have owned slaves in the antebellum South? Matthew Lopez’s inspiring new play, The Whipping Man, uses one such family as a parable of faith, family, free…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:58PM(Frank Langella as Lear in the Chichester Festival Theatre’s production in January) “These late eclipses of the sun and moon portend us no good.” So predicts Gloucester in King L…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 03:28PM“By the pricking of my thumbs,/Something wicked this way comes.” A veritable army of Macbeths have been marching through New York these past few years, culminating in the spectacular one…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 12:42PMWatching Bruce Graham's absurdist comedy Any Given Monday, now being presented in New York by Ambler's Act II Playhouse, can't help but produce a warm and fuzzy feeling, especially if you're…
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