Monday, May 29, 2023
“Shall we set about some revels?” Yes! The battle begins: Lantern Theater Company opened its excellent and enjoyable production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night; soon to…
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The DAL is having quite a week! First the Orchestra and then the Museum: Philadelphia’s finest institutions providing much enjoyment. Philadelphia Museum of Art has…
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DAL is pleased to report that this gala was more fun than glam. Oh, there was the occasional gown and a sprinkling of black ties,…
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James Ijames won the Pulitzer Prize for Fat Ham, which is now running on Broadway; his even newer play, Abandon, has just opened at Theatre Exile.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 11:32AMSunday, May 7, 2023
A small town’s main business—tourism— dries up and bit by bit small businesses follow.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 01:11PMSaturday, May 6, 2023
This is not the admiring smirk or a contemptuous Ha-ha!, but fall-off-your-chair, eye-mopping hilarity.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 12:47PMMonday, May 1, 2023
Mozart’s Don Giovanni is the greatest opera ever written. Don’t take my word for it—what do I know, I’m a dilettante—but that was the opinion…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 08:07AMWednesday, April 26, 2023
Take the trigger warnings seriously: This is ordeal by theater.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 06:56PMSunday, April 23, 2023
This remarkable adaptation of a century-old novel concludes EgoPo’s Harlem Renaissance season
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 10:45AMTuesday, April 18, 2023
Sometimes cynical, ultra-cool critical disdain—much in evidence these days— just won’t do. I loved this show; it’s filled with wonderful songs and wonderful singers, an…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 10:35AMFriday, April 14, 2023
At 15th & Bainbridge—only a few blocks from Philadelphia Theatre Company’s stage at Broad & Lombard—there stood a legendary dive bar called Emerson’s. Jazz greats—John…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 03:24PMTuesday, April 11, 2023
What a wackadoodle of a show! Part party, part pop musical, the Walnut Street Theatre’s production of Jimmy Buffett’s hit is an enjoyable evening, but…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 03:02PMThursday, April 6, 2023
I should have such a problem all the time: how to review a show that is just about perfect.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 01:35PMFriday, March 24, 2023
And now, “live in consort,” the six wives of Henry VIII: “divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.”
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 12:17PMThursday, March 23, 2023
Well, of course I know they were clapping for the cast and not the characters, but there was something creepy about hundreds of people—some of…
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You'll find much beauty in the vast halls of Convention Center.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 09:17PMSunday, February 19, 2023
Leave it to Inis Nua, the theater company whose name means “New Island” and is dedicated to producing plays from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 09:58PMSaturday, February 18, 2023
Toby Zinman looks at three plays now New York stages.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 04:25AMFriday, February 17, 2023
Our dilettante at large reviews Academy of Vocal Arts' South Philly themed production of Donizetti’s comic opera
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 10:26PMFriday, February 10, 2023
In the political news in the past few years, the concern has been not with the lifespan of facts, but the lifespan of lies
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 08:58PMMonday, February 6, 2023
The Dilettante at Large is at large again, writing about the culture as an enjoyer rather than an expert. Her latest pleasure was Opera Philly’s…
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Terrific actors playing lovable characters, important issues, snappy dialogue, and plenty of comedy
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 05:40PMSaturday, February 4, 2023
A play is about acting as well as the political act of making theater as well as about getting it wrong through cultural appropriation
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 05:05PMFriday, February 3, 2023
Take it from this old broad, Broads, 1812 Productions’ new show, is an entertaining 75 minutes—if you like funny songs and dirty jokes.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 12:20PMSaturday, January 28, 2023
Benjamin Bagby takes on the role of the scop, the storyteller
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 06:21PMSaturday, January 21, 2023
Are you missing those bad hairdos and baggy blue suits of 1969?
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 06:54AMFriday, December 16, 2022
Adrienne Kennedy’s crushingly beautiful play, Ohio State Murders, is making a long overdue debut on Broadway.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 10:57PMThis new musical comedy, a Big Broadway rewrite of the 1959 classic movie, Some Like it Hot, offers fabulosity: huge production numbers, flashy costumes, marvelous…
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The Crucible, has withstood all manner of productions, from starry Broadway to high school drama club, and it will withstand Sarah Ruhl’s crass replay, Becky Nurse of Salem
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 10:55AMMonday, November 21, 2022
Where are the great acts I remembered? The trained cats? the galloping horses? the iron men? the Wheel of Death?
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 09:01PMMonday, November 7, 2022
“We are together.” This line is an often-repeated refrain in Death of a Driver, a grim new play by Will Snider presented by InterAct at the Drake’s Proscenium…
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