Thursday, August 16, 2012
Mauckingbird Theatre Company's take on Much Ado About Nothing has several commendable qualities.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:04PMThursday, August 9, 2012
Director David O'Connor's production may not always be great, but it's never boring, and it's filled with striking moments.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:44PMSaturday, July 14, 2012
But Not Now, Darling leaves out the sophistication, settling for farce-and a rather lowbrow style of farce at that.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:05PMWednesday, June 27, 2012
Allison Moore's Hazard County aims to examine Southern stereotypes, racial politics, and the thin line between news, reality TV, and exploitation. That's a lot for one play to cover in 100 m…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:57AMThursday, June 21, 2012
Tulipomania has unlikable characters, a contrived setup, a dramatic arc where nothing is at stake, and songs that don't elevate the show to a higher level ... Reasons to Be Pretty isn't a pl…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:48AMTuesday, May 29, 2012
Despite Sutton's winning performance, though, Buddy is a clunky show ... The Island is one intense theatrical experience.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:13PMFriday, May 18, 2012
In Enda Walsh's The Walworth Farce, now being given a sharp and energetic production by Inis Nua Theatre Company, a man and his two grown sons are living in a decrepit apartment on the fifte…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:19AMMonday, May 7, 2012
Four performers with sensational voices and vibrant personalities enliven Rodgers and Hammerstein's A Grand Night for Singing, a revue at the Walnut Street Theatre's Independence Studio, cel…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:14PMSaturday, May 5, 2012
While Robin Hood shows the virtues of a small cast, Act II Playhouse's production of My Fair Lady shows that sometimes a cast can be too small for a show's good.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:17PMThursday, May 3, 2012
We're in playwright/screenwriter Martin McDonagh's world, a place where macabre, bloody humor feels perfectly natural ... Hamletmachine and Medeaplays are two short plays by Heiner M�ller (t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:21PMThursday, April 26, 2012
Under Aaron Cromie's direction, every scene of this Titus Andronicus is inventive and irreverent, and performed with relish ... David Rabe's newest work, The Black Monk, now receiving its wo…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:02PMMonday, April 23, 2012
Slip/Shot, a remarkable new play by Jacqueline Pardue Goldfinger, starts with a bang ... Jon Marans' The Temperamentals ... has a fascinating subject: It's the true story of the men who, in…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:54PMFriday, April 6, 2012
As The Outgoing Tide opens, two men stand on a dock at the edge of the Chesapeake Bay getting to know each other ... EgoPo Classic Theater's The Golem dramatizes several Golem stories, but w…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:43AMThursday, April 5, 2012
As a nun and a priest square off over the accusations, guilt and innocence are examined from all sides ... Carmen Khan has assembled a solid cast and a good design team for a fine production…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:53AMWednesday, March 28, 2012
In Yasmina Reza's quick-moving and quick-witted God of Carnage, two couples meet for a civilized discussion in an elegant apartment filled with sleek furniture and expensive books on art ...…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:28PMSaturday, March 17, 2012
Lantern Theater's Romeo and Juliet is one wild ride ... Cyrano is a streamlined version of Rostand's story.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:04AMThursday, March 8, 2012
Quintessence Theatre is presenting a delicately impressive production of "Antigone"; "Terrorism" [is] a play by the Presnyakov Brother ... who have examined terrorism from all sides and have…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:19AMSaturday, February 25, 2012
"Time Stands Still" works in large part thanks to its appealing characters and Margulies' warm, naturalistic dialogue ... "Knives in Hens," by Scottish playwright David Harrower, is a play t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:41PMSunday, February 12, 2012
Tina Howe's Museum is a play that doesn't really have a plot - there's no action, no big conflict, no resolution, and no logical conclusion - but what it does have more than makes up for wha…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:32AMSaturday, February 4, 2012
"Clybourne Park" is a play that starts with an intriguing premise and proceeds to explore that premise with insight, compassion and startling humor ... "A Raw Space" is a tedious, obvious m…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:03PMThursday, February 2, 2012
Philadelphia Theatre Company's "The Scottsboro Boys" is a major theatrical achievement ... [Luna Stage's] "Bachelorette" is a dark comedy that's actually really funny ... Walnut's production…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:54AMMonday, January 23, 2012
"Proof," David Auburn's smart and accessible play about genius and its repercussions, is receiving a top notch production at the Walnut Street Theatre's Independence Studio on 3. I
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:51PMTuesday, January 17, 2012
"Let's Pretend We're Married" is a skewed salute to married life that works because the stars don't take its subject - or themselves - seriously for a moment.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:18PMTuesday, December 27, 2011
How can one begin to describe how wrongheaded and unmusical this production of Gypsy at Bristol Riverside Theatre is?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:23PMMonday, December 19, 2011
Coward's dialogue reeks of class and cleverness, but Lantern Theater's production never seems stuffy. It's a breezy and enjoyable take on a classic comedy. ... "Charlotte's Web" touches on s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:33PMMonday, December 5, 2011
"Ordinary Days" is very good, even though it doesn't quite live up to its potential ... "The King and I" blends serious and comic elements in an agreeable way, but it's more respectable than…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:46PMSaturday, November 5, 2011
"The Whipping Man" tells the story of the Civil War's aftermath from an uncommon point of view. Matthew Lopez's play has some faults, but at its best it's lyrical and transfixing ... The moo…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:28PMTuesday, October 25, 2011
Stephen Rowe plays Rothko as a force of nature - blunt, brilliant, tender and terrifying at the same time... EgoPo Classic Theater is presenting a fine, respectable production of "The Diary …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:25PMMonday, October 17, 2011
Lantern Theater's latest production is a cross between a courtroom drama and a philosophy lecture, and it's a lot more entertaining than that description sounds ... eith Baker is terrific pl…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:21PMThursday, October 13, 2011
racy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning comic drama is riveting, riotous and ribald from beginning to end ... Meanwhile, in the Mount Airy section of the city, there's another long, three act pla…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:11PMSaturday, October 8, 2011
This year's Barrymore Awards, honoring the best in Philadelphia area theater in the 2010-2011 season, were presented on Monday night at a ceremony at the Walnut Street Theatre. Her…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 04:08PM 
