In the age of musical adaptations, it’s understandable to be skeptical about one of the most enduring young adult properties coming to the stage. However, The Outsiders feels completely o…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 09:51PMTheatre Horizon has done it again. As they’ve done so many times since its founding in 2005 by Erin Reilly and Matthew Decker, Theatre Horizon has brought some of the brightest talent in t…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 09:00AMMost of us only know Lehman Brothers as a greedy bank that didn’t get bailed out in the 2008 financial crisis and shut down, but there was so much more to their history. The Lehman Trilogy…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 09:00AM“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 10:50AMMischief 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 01:22AMComposer 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 09:52PMThe 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 09:06AMMore 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 07:45AMI’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 12:30PMLife 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 02:24AMThe 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 05:50PMThe 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 11:28AMThe 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 09:00AMAndy 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 11:21AMYou 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 01:12PMThere 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 10:00AMPhiladelphia’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 10:01PMThe 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 06:44PMBilly 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 10:48PMIn 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 07:07PMThe 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 02:00AMIt’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 10:47PMAt 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 06:28PMThe 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 12:35PMMy 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 02:55PMShakespeare 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 01:53PMHello, 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 11:36AMEverything 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 08:17PMFool 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 06:47PMThe 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…
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