Monday, May 25, 2015
It's a small miracle that Kander and Ebb's Curtains ever made it to Broadway.
SOURCE: citypaper.net at 05:58PMWhat is it about the word "Brechtian" that makes me want to reach for a gun?
SOURCE: citypaper.net at 05:58PMExpect that this Annie will do a bang-up business with families — and, of course, the Sykes factor will draw curious adults.
SOURCE: citypaper.net at 05:58PMREVIEW: Lantern Theater Co.'s A Skull in Connemara
SOURCE: citypaper.net at 05:58PMThursday, June 20, 2013
InterAct's Some Other Kind of Person sometimes hits the target on self-interested Helping The Less Fortunate.
SOURCE: City Paper (Philadelphia) at 05:36AMThursday, June 6, 2013
When A Little Night Music premiered on Broadway in 1973, it took Sondheim fans by surprise. The composer-lyricist was famous as an acerbic observer of contemporary life; this show’s period…
SOURCE: City Paper (Philadelphia) at 06:09AMThursday, April 11, 2013
“Who steals my purse steals trash,” says Iago in Othello. But if you doubt that Shakespeare knew the power of money — and its ability to corrupt — look no further than his Timon of A…
SOURCE: City Paper (Philadelphia) at 05:56AMThursday, March 28, 2013
Henry V is officially categorized as one of Shakespeare’s histories, though to me it’s more specific than that: It’s his Boy Play. Don’t get me wrong. It’s a fine play, at points a…
SOURCE: City Paper (Philadelphia) at 05:42AMThursday, March 21, 2013
You might be tempted to assume that A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 play about a family in Chicago striving for a better life, is an important part of our theatrical past. T…
SOURCE: City Paper (Philadelphia) at 04:29PMThursday, February 21, 2013
Thursday, December 20, 2012
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And what do they talk about in Lucile Lichtblau’s elegant, smart, riveting new play, being given a knockout premiere production at Theatre Exile? The drudgery of daily work life. How to fl…
SOURCE: City Paper (Philadelphia) at 05:48AMWednesday, November 21, 2012
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Mark St. Germain imagines the dialogue between two titanic thinkers in a way that only a hack writer could, turning it into a stream of platitudes and cute aphorisms.
SOURCE: City Paper (Philadelphia) at 05:45AMThursday, November 1, 2012
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Enda Walsh's play is free of the maudlin self-pity that is the soda bread of life for so many Irish dramatists. Don't get me wrong: Walworth Farce is profoundly sad — and funny, scary and …
SOURCE: City Paper (Philadelphia) at 05:57AMThursday, March 22, 2012
Sam Shepard, America's playwright and poet laureate of the modern West, is in his best form in Curse of the Starving Class, a searingly funny-sad take on family dysfunction. Curse dates from…
SOURCE: City Paper (Philadelphia) at 05:32AMThursday, February 16, 2012
The behind-the-scenes action around Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park, an ingenious homage to Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 drama A Raisin in the Sun, has been drama-filled, to say the least.
SOURCE: City Paper (Philadelphia) at 06:02AMThursday, February 2, 2012
The careers of some of America's greatest musical theater writers have ended with a whimper. So it's heartening that composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb's final work together, The Sco…
SOURCE: City Paper (Philadelphia) at 05:57AMThursday, December 22, 2011
"I've always been sophisticated," says Amanda Prynne, the heroine of Noel Coward's beloved Private Lives. Generations of theater-goers agree with her — they follow the on-again, off-again …
SOURCE: City Paper (Philadelphia) at 06:10AMThursday, October 27, 2011
Thursday, June 2, 2011
A brilliant production might help Ruined cohere, but at PTC, director Maria Mileaf traffics chiefly in big gestures. A few Brechtian touches feel out of place in what is basically a realisti…
SOURCE: City Paper (Philadelphia) at 06:12AMThursday, May 5, 2011
The German Society's beautiful, ghostly library is the perfect venue for EgoPo Classic Theater's production of Hell. From the start, we're immersed in a setting that reminds us of the huge s…
SOURCE: City Paper (Philadelphia) at 06:02AMSaturday, April 2, 2011
There are plenty of big rewards in Charles McMahon's high-octane production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at Lantern Theater Co.
SOURCE: City Paper (Philadelphia) at 09:49AM 
