Monday, March 28, 2022
A 2021 novella from Philly author Jonathan Koven, published thanks to the Electric Eclectic Novella Prize, is a new entry in a hoary tradition, but not without poetic merits. Walter Bilderba…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:28PMFriday, November 12, 2021
In Sam Gridley’s new Philly-set novella, a now-privileged teacher grapples with her anarchist past as she continues to join left-wing activists. Walter Bilderback reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:43PMTuesday, May 26, 2020
If a demi-god burns and no one hears about it, does it make a catharsis? Walter Bilderback investigates a pandemic-era production of ‘The Women of Trachis’ at Swarthmore dubbed “theate…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:42PMIf a demigod burns and no one hears about it, does it make a catharsis? Walter Bilderback investigates a pandemic-era production of ‘The Women of Trachis’ at Swarthmore dubbed “theater…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:42PMThursday, December 14, 2017
LiveConnections Presents kicked off its new season in rousing fashion with an evening of music from the Chicago-based Fifth House Ensemble and classical guitarist Jason Vieaux – introduced…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:11AMWednesday, November 22, 2017
I went into Finding Neverland with high hopes. I had been enchanted by the 2004 film from which this musical has been adapted. The story, based on a play by Allan Knee, follows the (highly …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:14PMSaturday, November 4, 2017
In 2016, Delaware Shakespeare began a new program: the Community Tour. This program is a bold initiative, designed to “bring a professional theater production to underserved or non-traditi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:01AMSaturday, September 23, 2017
If you open the dictionary and look up the word ‘life,’ one entry reads: ‘a period of animate existence.’ Composer Troy Herion gives this explanation for the title of Pig Iron Theatr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:19PMMonday, September 18, 2017
First things first: Lee Minora’s solo show Cheeks is a laugh riot. Do not miss an opportunity to see this show. It is both whip smart and hysterical (both in the colloquial meaning and a f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:59AMFriday, September 15, 2017
Cotton&Gold is a new play by writer/director Alyse M. Hogan, a 2017 University of the Arts graduate, and her company AMH Productions, which describes itself as “a new theater company l…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:06AMThursday, September 14, 2017
Home is the newest theatrical confection of Fringe favorite Geoff Sobelle, and a can’t-miss part of the current festival. The first 70 minutes are a surrealistic delight. I recommend sitti…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:00PMFriday, September 8, 2017
Life Lines is a new, collectively-developed work by the all-female ensemble Tangle Movement Arts. Tangle’s work is mostly derived from circus arts, particularly aerial performance on trape…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:37AMFriday, June 9, 2017
Two staples of American drama have been the “kitchen-sink play,” which feature small casts and meticulously detailed, usually lower-middle class, settings, and what I’ll call “family…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:04PMSunday, June 4, 2017
LiveConnections Presents ended its sixth season with soprano Elizabeth Zharoff and double bassist Xavier Foley. This season was devoted to pairing musicians in order to stretch musical bound…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:16PMThursday, June 1, 2017
Set in the hectic kitchen of a restaurant in New York’s Financial District, Will Snider’s How to Use a Knife focuses on a friendship that develops between two men – one a chef, the oth…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:28AMMonday, April 3, 2017
It’s unlikely you will be familiar with John Ford’s The Broken Heart. Like most early 17th century playwrights not named Shakespeare, Ford’s works are rarely performed: he’s know…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:46AMSaturday, March 11, 2017
It’s So Learning, written and performed by comedic mavericks The Berserker Residents, is a wild, immersive ride through the Berserkers’ vision of the K-12 system. Even people who avoid a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:35PMSaturday, February 25, 2017
Once again, LiveConnections Presents (“LCP”) curator Mary Wheelock Javian’s musical matchmaking has produced a lively evening of musical discovery. This time it was the pairing of …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:40PMFriday, February 10, 2017
Sans Everything is a collaboration between the theater companies Lightning Rod Special (“LRS”) and Strange Attractor Theatre Co. (“SATC”). The title comes from Jaques’ famous “Se…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:45PMSaturday, January 28, 2017
Nicholas Photinos’ and Florent Ghys’ evening of “string innovations” was another successful pairing for LiveConnections Presents’ ambitious curator Mary Wheelock Javian. Her 2016-1…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:55PMFriday, December 2, 2016
LiveConnection Presents’ evening of Sybarite5 + Jakub Ciupinski treated its World Cafe audience to two exciting young exemplars of new music. Sybarite5 is the world’s first string quin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:23AMThursday, November 17, 2016
A man sticks his head in through the door in the back wall. Broken down, dirty, dressed in old but modern clothes, he is delighted to see us, and sing his song. “It’s a good story,” an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:43PMMonday, October 31, 2016
Guards at the Taj is the story of two young friends, Humayun (“Huma”) and Babur. The two are a sort of Indian vaudeville duo: Huma (Anthony Mustafa Adair) is the uptight straight man, Ba…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:39AMSunday, September 25, 2016
I’ve long felt that if someone is going to cut down a Shakespeare text, they should take the responsibility of claiming co-authorship, since any editing becomes interpretation. This ye…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:30PMFriday, September 23, 2016
A playwright friend recently recalled something the Russian director Dimitry Krymov said: “I want to be interested beyond my understanding. My understanding can catch up later…. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:12AMTuesday, April 12, 2016
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SOURCE: breakingcharactermagazine.com at 12:59PMThursday, January 28, 2016
In Tom Stoppard's 1972 play Jumpers, a character asks, “What’s so good about Good?” Mentioning this line in a note on his new play, The Hard Problem, Stoppard writes “I haven’t got…
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