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Friday, May 13, 2016

Review: ‘Cirque du Soleil’s OVO’ at The Liacouras Center in Philadelphia by Peter Danelski

Cirque du Soleil has made quite a reputation for themselves. For four decades the company has set out to reinvent circus with bold theatricality and tremendous physical spectacle. Cirque has…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00PM
Friday, March 25, 2016

Review: ‘An Octoroon’ at Wilma Theater in Philadelphia by Peter Danelski

Great plays ask great questions. Sometimes, if we are lucky enough, a production finds the inherent questions in a play and interrogates them in ways only theatre can The Wilma Theater’s p…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:03AM
Friday, March 18, 2016

Review: ‘RetroAct’ at Tangle Movement Arts in Philadelphia by Peter Danelski

When walking into Tangle Movement Arts’ RetroAct at the Neighborhood House in Philadelphia, there is the immediate feeling that expectations may be defied. There is energetic music playing…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:44AM
Thursday, March 17, 2016

Review: ‘As You Like It’ at Lantern Theater Company in Philadelphia by Peter Danelski

As far as plays go, As You Like It has a little bit of everything. Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy brings us death, weddings, country shenanigans court intrigue and attacks from wild animals…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:52PM
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Review: ‘Pippin’ at The Academy of Music in Philadelphia by Peter Danelski

When walking into the house of Philadelphia’s historic Academy of Music for Pippin, what could, at first, be the theatre’s fire curtain, or possibly the outer edge of a circus tent conce…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:14PM
Saturday, February 13, 2016

Joilet Harris: ‘From Me to You With Love’ at The Arden Cabaret Series in Philadelphia by Peter Danelski

“A chance at an intimate, up close and personal conversation.” That is how Matthew Decker, Arden Theatre Associate Artistic Director and Cabaret Series Director, described the goal of Th…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:09AM

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