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Friday, July 22, 2016

Mike Daisey’s ‘The Trump Card’ at FringeArts (first review) by Jim Rutter

Controversial performer and monologuist Mike Daisey takes on another controversial performer and monologuist: Donald Trump.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:53AM
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Mike Daisey’s ‘Trump Card’ at FringeArts by Jim Rutter

Controversial performer and monologuist Mike Daisey takes on another controversial performer and monologuist: Donald Trump.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:13PM
Thursday, July 14, 2016

BalletX 2016 Summer Series with Klip Collective by Jim Rutter

BalletX's Summer Series brings technology into dance. But in the contest between human and machine, which one prevails?

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:24AM
Monday, May 25, 2015

Shakespeare meets Lady Gaga by JIM RUTTER

Mauckingbird's imaginative, gender-bending staging of A Midsummer Night's Dream offers a spectacle that the Facebook generation can sink its teeth right into, notwithstanding the limitations…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:58PM
Monday, June 24, 2013

Review: 'The Last Five Years' by Jim Rutter

"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger." Nietzsche's dictum, great for individuals seeking motivation, bad for couples incapable of masking mutual resentment. Case in point: Jason Robert Br…

SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:18PM
Friday, May 31, 2013

Review: 'A Little Night Music' by Jim Rutter

The Arden Theatre first staged Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music in 1995 at the Arts Bank on Broad and South Streets. Two decades on, they've upstaged the musical with a gorgeously des…

SOURCE: Philly.com at 03:21PM
Monday, September 17, 2012

Review: SEVEN GUITARS by Jim Rutter

People's Light and Theatre Company presents a moving, majestic production of August Wilson's "Seven Guitars," says critic Jim Rutter.

SOURCE: Philly.com at 03:10PM
Thursday, September 6, 2012

Must die? Really? by Jim Rutter

'Jeff Coons and Ben Dibble Must Die' is 20 minutes of theater-world in-joke delight, then a bit of a time-waster.

SOURCE: Philly.com at 08:07PM
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

A show gives itself the hook by Jim Rutter

Must the show always go on? In 18 years of theatergoing in Philadelphia, I had never been sent home at intermission because a company could not continue the production — until Saturday.

SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:59PM
Thursday, March 8, 2012

A powerhouse merger of Philly dance companies by Jim Rutter

Two Philadelphia dance leaders -- Kate Watson-Wallace and Jaamil Kosoko -- and their companies have joined forces as a new “sustainable” collaborative. Jim Rutter talks with them.

SOURCE: Philly.com at 05:58PM
Monday, February 13, 2012

Review: "Wings" by Jim Rutter

This compelling production and Ann Crumb’s chilling performance transfix our gaze long enough to render something beautiful out of tragedy, says critic Jim Rutter.

SOURCE: Philly.com at 04:58PM
Sunday, February 12, 2012

Review: "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Jim Rutter

Kurt Vonnegut grappled fatalistically with the horrors of World War II in his 1969 sci-fi novel "Slaughterhouse-Five" -- and Eric Simonson’s stage adaptation at Curio Theatre Company abso…

SOURCE: Philly.com at 05:11PM

Review: "Tennessee's Last Cutain" by Jim Rutter

A new creative work that attempts to dramatize playwright Tennessee Williams' final moments must transcend available information., says critic Jim Rutter. The solid production at South Cam…

SOURCE: Philly.com at 04:38PM
Friday, February 3, 2012

Review: "A Raw Space" by Jim Rutter

Critic Jim Rutter writes that Jon Marans’ theatrically ambitious but overwrought "A Raw Space," now receiving a stilted world premiere at Bristol Riverside Theatre, started with a solid if…

SOURCE: Philly.com at 02:16PM
Thursday, November 17, 2011

An encouraging trend: Theater for grownups by Jim Rutter

Until recently Philadelphia’s theater community seemed mired in edgy plays about alienated 30-somethings in dysfunctional families. But four recent productions— all intelligent, challeng…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:51AM
Monday, November 7, 2011

Review: "Even Steven" by Jim Rutter

Most romantic comedies succeed by indulging fantasy: men want to date out of their league; women want a nice guy they can whip into a socially respectable man. Robin Pond’s Even Steven, at…

SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:32PM
Thursday, November 3, 2011

Review: "Meanwhile ..." by Jim Rutter

Brat Productions' quick-change romp "Meanwhile ..." show Madi Distefano stretching her writer's chops and a production that has its highs and lows, says critic Jim Rutter.

SOURCE: Philly.com at 08:53PM
Monday, October 24, 2011

Hiring local actors: triumph or calamity? by Jim Rutter

Philadelphia’s Arden and Wilma theaters open their seasons this month with large-cast plays populated by local actors. That’s a tribute to the growing wealth of local talent available—…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:52AM
Friday, April 22, 2011

Octavio Solis’s ‘Lydia,’ by Amaryllis by Jim Rutter

In Lydia, Octavio Solis captures the mixture of poetry, magic and dysfunction that characterize Hispanic-American families. But he also borrows heavily from America’s most celebrated Anglo…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:34PM

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