Wednesday, December 13, 2017
It may take place in rural Georgia circa 1909, but because of today’s headlines about the mistreatment of women, The Color Purple is more relevant than ever. The tour of the recent Broadwa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:01PMMonday, November 27, 2017
A play by Moliere in the Philadelphia area? Be still my heart! I took a quick unscientific survey in the lobby, prior to the performance, and discovered that not many visitors to The Miser, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:50PMSunday, November 12, 2017
A Thanksgiving musical? We can think of musicals that sometimes involve that observance, but an entire show about how the holiday evolved? Bucks County Playhouse’s The New World may be ont…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:09PMSaturday, November 4, 2017
“To the Bog of Cats I one day will return In mortal form or in ghostly form And I will find you there and there with your sojourn Forever by the Bog of Cats, my darling one.” If there ev…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:03PMFriday, November 3, 2017
Every few weeks we read in the news about the death, at 90+ years, of a beloved celebrity or artist. Someone always asks, “Whatever happened to them? I thought s/he was already dead.” Wh…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:38PMSunday, October 8, 2017
Family is everything according to Eugene O’Neill. The relationships you form as a child will haunt and guide all of your future life. Rebellion is a basic of the dynamic, and as much as O�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:49PMMonday, September 25, 2017
What’s the most impressive technical production in the area? What’s just as astounding as Disney World or any show on Broadway? It’s Delaware Theatre Company’s Something Wicked This …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:53PMSunday, September 24, 2017
Musical Heaven. Is there a better way to describe the production of Carousel at the Media Theatre? It would be hard to find a better-sung production than that given by the surpassingly yout…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:51PMMonday, September 18, 2017
What would you rather see: Fanny Brice singing on a tugboat in New York harbor, or a real live Fanny Brice in the Ziegfeld Follies? Funny Girl, the original 1964 Broadway musical, is a real …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:34AMSaturday, September 16, 2017
How is theatre superior to film or TV? What special magic is found in live performance? This question is superbly answered in Souvenir, A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins, Ste…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:13PMSunday, September 10, 2017
Confederate statues are toppled because they ignite memories of slavery. Colleges are compelled to rename buildings because their namesakes turned out to be slaveholders. Theater companies m…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:25PMFriday, July 28, 2017
Warning: You don’t have much time left! Nearly one third of Theater With a View’s performances of Rabbit Hole have been rained out (including the earlier one I was supposed to attend.) T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:28PMThursday, July 27, 2017
Whenever a musical group has the name “brothers” or “sisters” (as in “Smothers” or “Andrews”) you can expect a tight, controlled sound with seamlessly blended harmonies. Clos…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:06PMSunday, July 23, 2017
Six days do not a week make. These famous words of nonsense, uttered by the young wife Cory, will tell all serious theatergoers that they are in the domain of Neil Simon and his oft-performe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:26PMSaturday, July 8, 2017
Ten-minute plays are a modern phenomenon. Some critics refer to them as “theatrical fast food” or “audience sound-bites” but this type of play demands a writer who can present exciti…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:59PMMonday, June 26, 2017
The summer stock experience has nearly passed away. Half a century ago it was a vacation custom to visit a picturesque village and, after a day of sightseeing complemented by great food, sto…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:38AMSaturday, June 17, 2017
June 1967. What memories does that bring? Sgt. Pepper, The Rolling Stones, bell bottoms, assassinations, the conflict with ’50s conformity, trouble in the Middle East? This is the era summ…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:29PMMonday, June 12, 2017
A good American farce is as rare as a diamond. If you can write a crazy comedy that will keep audiences laughing, regional and community theaters will beat a path to your door. Ken Ludwig, o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:16PMSunday, June 11, 2017
Alone. Lonesome. Free. These three words appear often in Paul Osborn’s classic Morning’s at Seven, now on view at Old Academy Players in East Falls. This play has become a staple of regi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:09PMMonday, May 29, 2017
The Confederate statues have been removed from their pedestals. Some people are disappointed. Their rosy vision of the lost genteel South has been taken away. To them, history has been rewri…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:48PMSunday, May 28, 2017
Memorial Day Weekend usually means a trip to the shore, but Steel River Playhouse brought the ocean to Pottstown, with its glorious rendition of Disney’s The Little Mermaid. True, the show…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:42PMSaturday, May 20, 2017
Are there any award nominators out there? Is so, get down to Act II Playhouse. This superb production of Brighton Beach Memoirs deserves a bundle of them. Much of the production’s success…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:47PMSunday, May 14, 2017
Adultery, the trespass that has fascinated human beings through the ages, offers many emotional highs and lows. There is the desire that overwhelms all reason. There is the joy of stealing a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:14PMSaturday, April 15, 2017
Theatergoers of the 1970s will remember Peter Shaffer’s Equus as the ultimate phantasmagorical theater ride. The revolving stage, the omnipresent stage smoke, the blasting music, and the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:24PMSunday, April 9, 2017
Two young black men stumble upon an expensively dressed but badly beaten young white woman in the ghetto. What do they do? If it’s Detroit in 1967, you certainly can’t involve yourself w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:05PMFriday, March 24, 2017
Nearly everyone in the arts has taken another job such as waiter, receptionist, or office temp just to pay the rent. Brad Zimmerman has an unfortunately typical problem: He’s Jewish and hi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:24PMSaturday, March 11, 2017
Come look at the freaks Come gape at the geeks Come examine their aberrations Is this any way to begin a Broadway musical? Well, if the subject matter is any individual who has been the vict…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:53PMSaturday, March 4, 2017
What did happen to Sebastian last summer? This sounds like a murder mystery, right? But if Tennessee Williams writes the mystery, one can be certain that it will be highly poetic, and involv…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:04PMMonday, February 20, 2017
A group of people are seated at a dinner table. They discuss the weather. Meanwhile, their lives are falling apart. With the revealing use of subtext like this, Anton Chekhov and others intr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:49PMFriday, February 17, 2017
Who put the bomp in the bomp be bomp bah bomp? Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong? It these lyrics fill you with happiness in the remembrance of days gone by, then run to the Bristol…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:09PMSunday, February 12, 2017
Today’s audiences need farce. Wild men chasing beautiful women through many doors, visual running gags, women dressed as men, and vice versa, all enhanced by a desperation throttled perfor…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:17PM 
