Friday, 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 11:36AMThursday, March 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 o…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 11:50AMWednesday, March 1, 2017
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Simon Stephens, based on the novel by Mark Haddon. Directed by Marianne Elliott for national tour. The hero of this play is, in p…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 02:15PMThursday, February 9, 2017
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov; Lane Savadove directed. EgoPo Classic Theater, Philadelphia, February 2017. Not everyone likes Chekhov’s The Seagull. Despite it being a lauded masterp…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 07:34PMTuesday, February 7, 2017
Grand Concourse by Heidi Schreck; Beth Lopes directed at Theatre Horizon, Norristown PA, February 2017. Combining its selection of play with a mission to help hungry and homeless peop…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 09:36PMFriday, January 27, 2017
Dancing With the Stars on tour, Upper Darby, PA, January 2017 Dancing With The Stars may be off TV, between seasons, but the choreography hasn’t stopped. Ten of the most talented ba…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 01:00AMSaturday, January 21, 2017
The Nose, by Nikolai Gogol. EgoPo Classic Theatre, Philadelphia, January 2017 In the midst of its season devoted to Russian classics, the EgoPo theater company scheduled a fund-raisin…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 10:48AMWednesday, January 11, 2017
The Road: My Life With John Denver. By Randal Myler and Dan Wheetman. Myler directed at Peoples Light & Theatre, Malvern, PA. January 2017 The latest musical at Peoples Light has…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 01:33PMThursday, December 15, 2016
In Transit. Book, music & lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, James-Allen Ford, Russ Kaplan and Sara Wordsworth. Directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall. Circle in the Square, New …
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 11:28AMWednesday, December 14, 2016
Allegiance. Music & lyrics by Jay Kuo, book by Marc Acito, Jay Kuo and Lorenzo Thione. Stafford Arima directed. Presented in movie theaters by Fathom Events. Allegiance had a shor…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 10:45AMSunday, December 4, 2016
She Loves Me. Music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, book by Joe Masteroff, based on a play by Miklos Laszlo. 2016 Broadway production, presented in HD in movie theaters by Fathom E…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 02:31PMTuesday, November 22, 2016
The National Dog Show, presented by the Kennel Club of Philadelphia. NBC telecast on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 2016, as recorded live on November 19 & 20 at the Greater Phila…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 07:56PMWednesday, November 2, 2016
Delirium, an adaptation by Enda Walsh of The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. EgoPo Classic Theater in Philadelphia. Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov is great literatur…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 05:45AMSunday, October 30, 2016
Guards at the Taj, by Rajiv Joseph. Deborah Block directed at Theatre Exile, Philadelphia. Shah Mirza Jahan was a cultured patron of the arts. His reign in the 17th century was consid…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 11:45AMThursday, October 27, 2016
Mauritius, by Theresa Rebeck, through November 20, 2016 at Act II Playhouse, 56 E. Butler Ave., Ambler PA. Theresa Reback’s Mauritius channels David Mamet at his best while eschewin…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 12:01PMMonday, October 24, 2016
A New Brain. Music and lyrics by William Finn, Matthew Decker directed at Theatre Horizon, Norristown PA. A New Brain is a musical about the life-threatening illness of the composer a…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 02:29PMFriday, October 21, 2016
When Donald Trump’s Access Hollywood recording became public, politicians panicked about how they should respond. The heads of two Philadelphia-area theater companies, on the other hand, v…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 09:09AMThursday, October 6, 2016
This is the Week That Is: Election Special. 1812 Productions, performing at Plays & Players Theatre in Philadelphia, October & November 2016. Will Rogers used gentle, folksy…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 08:47AMSunday, September 25, 2016
The War of the Roses, by Warren Adler. American stage premiere directed by Bud Martin. Delaware Theatre Company. This new stage production improves on the successful 1989 movie of the…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 04:11PMTuesday, September 13, 2016
Electile Dysfunction. Written by and starring Tony Braithwaite, Tracie Higgins and Will Dennis. Braithwaite directed at Act II Playhouse, Ambler, PA. We readily identify with the prob…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 08:53PMTuesday, August 9, 2016
Tommy and Me, by Ray Didinger. World premiere by Theatre Exile, Philadelphia, 2016 I remember when I first met Ray Didinger. It was in the audience at a performance of a Bruce Graham …
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 05:55PMThursday, August 4, 2016
Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash. Created by Richard Maltby Jr., conceived by William Meade. Sherry Lutken directed. Peoples Light & Theatre Company, Malvern, PA. * Just as its ti…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 04:04PMMonday, August 1, 2016
Fiddler on the Roof. Music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, book by Joseph Stein. Bartlett Sher directed. Broadway Theatre, New York. Fiddler on the Roof takes place over 100…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 09:48AMThursday, July 14, 2016
The Harassment of Iris Malloy, by Zak Berkman. Lisa Rothe directed its world premiere by Poeples Light & Theater Company, Malvern PA. * * While most regional theaters are on summer vaca…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 02:16PMMonday, July 11, 2016
Jamaica. Book by Yip Harburg & Fred Saidy, lyrics by Harburg, music by Harold Arlen. Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj directed. New Freedom Theatre, Philadelphia * Small local companies sometimes…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 05:20PMWednesday, June 29, 2016
36 Views, a play by Naomi Iizuka. Lantern Theater Company, Philadelphia. We are being seduced, all of us, in the audience and on the stage. You feel it from the first meeting of two o…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 10:59AMThursday, June 16, 2016
At Philadelphia’s Freedom Theater in 2004, Walter Dallas directed a musical about Jesus reviving the dead, Lazarus Unstoned. It was an exciting, compelling production. But soon afterwards,…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 11:02AMWednesday, June 15, 2016
The 1957 musical Jamaica is being revived at Freedom Theater in Philadelphia in June of 2016. It’s pleasant nostalgia to think of Jamaica as an example of golden-age Broadway. But that sho…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 03:39PMThursday, June 2, 2016
The Invisible Hand, by Ayad Akhtar. Matthew Pfeiffer directed. Theatre Exile, Philadelphia. If you were to judge by comments on the web and by advertising, you’d think that Ayad Akh…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 03:05PMSunday, May 22, 2016
Fully Committed, by Becky Mode. Lyceum Theatre in New York City; Theatre Horizon in Norristown PA. Michael Doherty is no Jesse Tyler Ferguson; he’s even better. It’s no sec…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 12:39PMFriday, May 20, 2016
Tuck Everlasting. Music by Chris Miller, lyrics by Nathan Tysen, book by Claudia Shear and Tim Federle. Broadhurst Theatre, New York. If you could choose to live forever, would you? T…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 04:14PM 
