Sunday, December 3, 2023
“Phone rings, door chimes,” in comes the national tour of Company to Philadelphia. The classic Stephen Sondheim musical is playing at the Forrest Theatre through December 10th. This prod…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 10:50AMFriday, November 24, 2023
Mischief Theatre is known for the hysterical The Play The Goes Wrong and Peter Pan Goes Wrong, but they’ve now brought an offshoot to New York. Mind Mangler : A Night of Tragic Illusion is…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 01:22AMMonday, June 26, 2023
Composer Jonathan Larson is most remembered for the smash hit musical Rent, but he wrote a far more introspective musical called Tick, Tick…Boom! It was initially performed as a rock monol…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 09:52PMMonday, June 12, 2023
The Broadway stage has been home to many genres, but we haven’t seen much horror. The new play Grey House by Levi Holloway isn’t a slasher full of jump scares and murders, but it is a ps…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 09:06AMFriday, May 5, 2023
More than 55 years after the premiere of the groundbreaking hit Cabaret, John Kander and the late Fred Ebb have a new musical on Broadway. New York, New York is a new work loosely based on t…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 07:45AMMonday, April 24, 2023
I’m not sure I’d ever lost my voice from laughing hysterically, until I saw Peter Pan Goes Wrong on Broadway. Six years after the premiere of The Play That Goes Wrong debuted on Broadway…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 12:30PMSunday, April 16, 2023
Life of Pi tells the story of one boy trapped on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger in the middle of the Pacific Ocean for 227 days. It’s hard to imagine, particularly after seeing the film, h…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 02:24AMFriday, March 31, 2023
The international smash hit Six is finally in Philadelphia and lives up to the hype. Six tells the story of the six wives of King Henry VIII through a concert format. This one-act show gives…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 05:50PMWednesday, December 21, 2022
The Academy Award-winning movie Some Like It Hot is a classic and very much of its time. It took place in 1929, shortly before musical movies like 42nd Street became smash hits. It was relea…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 11:28AMMonday, December 12, 2022
The beauty of live theater is its ability to truly move you. Many shows these days can make you emotional, but the most heartfelt show to hit Broadway in years is an original musical called�…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 09:00AMWednesday, November 30, 2022
Andy Blankenbuehler is the best choreographer working in theater, and his brilliance is on full display in the new musical Only Gold. This production, playing off-Broadway at MCC Theater, is…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 11:21AMMonday, November 28, 2022
You may not know the name Max Martin, but you undoubtedly know his music. Martin is a Swedish songwriter/producer who has written many of the biggest chart-toppers on the planet since the la…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 01:38PMA new Broadway show based on a beloved movie takes you back to the world of rock and roll in the ‘70s. Almost Famous, based on the Academy Award-winning film, is playing at the Bernard B. …
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 01:12PMSunday, October 23, 2022
There is an acting masterclass on Broadway in the new revival of one of theater’s most prolific playwrights. August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson starring Samuel L. Jackson, John David W…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 10:00AMWednesday, October 19, 2022
Philadelphia’s most notable movie is back in town as a stage musical at the Walnut Street Theatre. Rocky the Musical was a Broadway show in 2014 and is now playing in the hometown of its s…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 10:01PMFriday, August 5, 2022
The Kite Runner has transformed from Khaled Hosseini’s bestselling 2003 novel into this new Broadway adaption. The Kite Runner tells the story of a boy named Amir, ranging from his childho…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 06:44PMWednesday, July 13, 2022
Billy Crystal is a Broadway musical star for the first time. The legendary comedian and actor is now the leading man in the new Broadway musical Mr. Saturday Night, playing at the Nederland…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 10:48PMMonday, June 13, 2022
In these trying times (do I sound like a politician yet?), we could all use a good laugh. Broadway isn’t always hospitable to farces, not since The Play That Goes Wrong opened in 2017 ha…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 07:07PMMonday, June 6, 2022
The playwright Martin McDonagh loves to make audiences uncomfortable, and he has succeeded yet again with his new play Hangmen. Set north of Manchester in Oldham, England during the 1960’…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 02:00AMTuesday, November 16, 2021
It’s been nearly 40 years since the premiere of Little Shop of Horrors, the breakthrough musical about a sentient plant that feeds on human blood. Since the 1986 film adaption directed by …
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 10:47PMMonday, November 15, 2021
At the Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony in September 2021, West End actress turned Ted Lasso star in her acceptance speech praised West End musical theatre performances, with the quote “give…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 06:28PMThursday, December 10, 2020
The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe, directed by Nell Bang-Jensen; streaming through December 20, 2020 at philadelphiatheatercompany.org. The Philadelphia Theater Company’s production of The Wo…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 12:35PMThursday, June 25, 2020
My friend Walter Dallas has lost his battle with cancer. In loving tribute, we reprint here a profile that I originally wrote in 2005 about this gentle giant. Dallas told me, “I am an A…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 02:55PMMonday, March 9, 2020
Shakespeare in Love, adapted for the stage by Lee Hall, based on the screenplay by Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard. Matt Pfeiffer directs at Peoples Light, Malvern, PA through March 29. Sh…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 01:53PMMonday, February 24, 2020
Hello, Dolly! Music & lyrics by Jerry Herman. Directed by Jerry Zaks. National tour at the Academt of Music, Philadelphia through March 1, 2020. She’s back where she belongs — to …
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 11:36AMSaturday, February 22, 2020
Everything is Wonderful by Chelsea Marcantel. Philadelphia Theatre Company at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre through March 8, 2020. Good intentions do not guarantee a positive outcome. That …
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 08:17PMWednesday, February 12, 2020
Fool For Love by Sam Shepard. Directed by Brenna Geffers. EgoPo Classic Theater. Through February 23, 2020, at the Latvian Society Theater, 531 N. 7th Street, Philadelphia. (267) 273-1414 or…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 06:47PMSaturday, February 1, 2020
The Children by Lucy Kirkwood. Directed by Abigail Adams, through February 9, 2020, at People’s Light, Malvern, PA The Children is a beautifully written play that’s receiving stunning…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 08:07PMSunday, January 12, 2020
Originally published in The Opera Critic, the international website for professional musicians. The new production of Wozzeck at the Metropolitan Opera presents a stark contrast with t…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 04:10PMThursday, January 9, 2020
The Band’s Visit, music and lyrics by David Yazbek, book by Itamar Moses. Philadelphia Academy of Music through January 19, 2019. The Band’s Visit is a delicate, intimate show about t…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 06:34PMSunday, December 22, 2019
An Iliad by Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare, directed by Rebecca Wright at the Arden Theatre, Philadelphia, through December 15, 2019. One of Philadelphia’s best actors, Mary Tuomanen,…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 08:38AM 
