Thursday, November 2, 2017
Red Herring. A romantic comedy by Michael Hollinger. Act II Playhouse, Ambler PA. Extra performances have been added through November 19, 2017 Red Herring is Michael Hollinger’s mos…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 11:14AMWednesday, November 1, 2017
Red Herring. A romantic comedy by Michael Hollinger. Act II Playhouse, Ambler PA. Red Herring is Michael Hollinger’s most intricate play. His script juggles a spy drama, three roman…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 12:32PMTuesday, October 31, 2017
Mindful of a new musical about Harold Prince’s career, Prince of Broadway, I recall my first published story about him, for Inside magazine in 1996. While throngs of Philadelphians…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 11:18PMThursday, October 26, 2017
Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole, by Colman Domingo and Patricia McGregor, directed by McGregor. People’s Light Theater, Malvern PA. Jukebox musicals have become a major genre in the…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 12:07PMWednesday, October 25, 2017
Ideation, by Aaron Loeb, directed by Joe Canuso. Theatre Exile, Philadelphia PA. Playwright Aaron Loeb pulls off a neat trick with his play Ideation, which premiered in San Francisco …
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 08:48PMSunday, October 15, 2017
2.5 Minute Ride by Lisa Kron. Theatre Horizon, Norristown PA. Buyer and Cellar by Jonathan Tollins. 1812 Productions, Philadelphia PA. Two one-person plays light up the Philadelphia t…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 12:43PMWednesday, October 11, 2017
Desperate Measures by David Friedman & Peter Kellogg. York Theatre, New York. The most fun of the 2017-18 theater season, so far, is a new musical by David Friedman and Peter Kel…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 04:21PMSaturday, September 30, 2017
Cabaret by John Kander, Fred Ebb and Joe Masteroff. Directed by Matthew Decker, Arden Theatre, September 2017. Never has Cabaret seemed so timely as in the new production by Matthew D…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 09:36AMThursday, September 21, 2017
Rock and Roll Man: The Alan Freed Story, a new musical at Bucks County Playhouse, New Hope, PA. Cleveland was picked to be the home of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because a Clevela…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 08:59AMWednesday, September 6, 2017
Which Reminds Me. Written and directed by Tony Braithwaite. Through October 1, 2017, at the Act II Playhouse, Ambler, Pennsylvania. Tony Braithwaite can do a one-man show on almost an…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 09:38AMFriday, August 25, 2017
Azul. La Fábrica Theater, Philadelphia, August 2017. Did you ever wonder why Picasso chose to paint in blue? The earliest stage of his famous career is known as his Blue Period, and …
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 04:04PMSunday, August 6, 2017
In 2018 the motion picture industry marks one hundred years since the demise of one of its important pioneering film studios. Every morning 60,000 cars come racing down Pennsylvania’s rout…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 08:20PMSaturday, August 5, 2017
Angels in America at the National Theatre in London. Presented live in movie theaters by Fathom Events in July 2017. Encore dates to be announced. This article is based on two of my r…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 11:22AMSunday, July 30, 2017
The Hero. Film starring Sam Elliott. At the Ambler Theater. The Hero is an unpretentious movie that sneaks up on you. Just as time has snuck up on its protagonist, a man who has been …
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 08:10PMTuesday, July 18, 2017
Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire. Theater With a View, Pottstown PA, through July 29, 2017. Rabbit Hole is a provocative family drama about differing ways in which people deal with…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 04:12PMThursday, July 13, 2017
Falsettos is one of the most beautiful musicals in Broadway history. Its story is filled with a panoply of emotions and is, by turns, tender, sad, heart-warming, and hopeful. William Finn’…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 02:04PMFriday, June 30, 2017
Fun Home. Music by Jeanine Tesori, lyrics by Lisa Kron. National tour, Spring and Summer 2017. Fun Home doesn’t attempt to be a fun experience. The musical is a serious play involvi…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 10:47AMSaturday, June 17, 2017
Indecent. Created by Paula Vogel & Rebecca Taichman. Written by Vogel, directed by Taichman. Cort Theatre, New York, through June 2017. Indecent is a daring play, in multiple ways…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 02:03PMWednesday, June 14, 2017
Gypsy. Book by Arthur Laurents, music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Terrence J. Nolen directed at the Arden Theatre, May-June 2017. Gypsy and Mary Martello each are appre…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 05:04PMMonday, May 15, 2017
The Play That Goes Wrong. Written by Henry Lewis, directed by Mark Ball. Lyceum Theatre, New York. May 2017. You don’t have to travel across the pond to see this superb presentation…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 02:19PMWednesday, May 3, 2017
Bandstand. Music by Richard Oberacker, book and lyrics by Oberacker and Rob Taylor. Directed & choreographed by Andy Blankenbuehler. Bernard Jacobs Theatre, May 2017. Tis the seas…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 12:39PMMonday, May 1, 2017
What were the television heroes of your childhood like in real life? And what ever became of them? Those are the questions that were explored in the play, Music From a Sparkling Planet, in 2…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 01:06PMFriday, April 28, 2017
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, music & lyrics by Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman, and Anthony Newley & Leslie Bricusse. Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York, April 2017. Ch…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 11:33AMMonday, April 10, 2017
Anna, based on Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, adapted and directed by Brenna Geffers. EgoPo Classic Theater, April 2017. Ego Po’s latest production uses an innovative approach to a R…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 06:50PMTuesday, April 4, 2017
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. Arden Theatre, Philadelphia, March 2017. This Arden Theatre production is the funniest Midsummer Night’s Dream of recent memory. …
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 03:49PMSunday, April 2, 2017
Bull in a China Shop, by Bryna Turner; directed by Lee Sunday Evans at the Claire Tow Theater of Lincoln Center, New York. The name of Mary Woolley has become obscured by the passage …
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 01:54PMHand to God, comedy by Robert Askins, Philadelphia Theatre Company, April 2017. A former minister from Texas, Robert Askins, wrote a vicious denunciation of religious hypocrisy in his…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 11:59AMThursday, March 23, 2017
The King and I by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II. Bartlett Sher directed. On tour, 2017. The King and I continues to offer new interpretations, 66 years after it was crea…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 08:22PMFriday, March 17, 2017
Come From Away. Book, music & lyrics by Irene Sankoff & David Hein. Schoenfeld Theatre, New York City, March 2017. A hit musical has opened on Broadway and it’s about̷…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 02:17PMFriday, March 10, 2017
Tomfoolery. Tony Braithwaite directed at Act II Playhouse, March-April 2017 To young people of a certain generation, Tom Lehrer was the pied piper. In the conformist 1950s he wrote so…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 08:46AMFriday, March 3, 2017
Lost Girls by John Pollono, directed by Joe Canuso. Theatre Exile, Philadelphia, March 2017 I’ve seen so many dramas about losers that I’m tired of the genre. I get impatient with…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 11:36AM 
