195 stories by "Cogency"
Mud Row by Dominique Morisseau at Peoples Light Theater, Malvern, PA, through August 4, 2019. Â Most critics have characterized this play's subject as family legacies. That is true. I'd l…
Rodgers & Hammerstein's first collaboration is more than 75 years old"and it's having a startling rebirth. A country-style production on Broadway just won a Tony as the best musical revi…
Fiddler on the Roof by Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick & Joseph Stein. National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene in New York City. Â I regret that I waited so long before seeing this wonderful …
Indecent by Paula Vogel. Arden Theatre, Philadelphia, through June 23, 2019. Â Indecent is a wide-ranging play that speaks to multiple issues. It covers many decades, moves across contine…
A Number by Caryl Churchill, through June 9, 2019, at People's Light Theatre, Malvern, PA Â A Pennsylvania political figure this month disclosed that he recently learned that he has a num…
Legally Blonde the Musical, music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin; based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the M-G-M motion picture; through July 21, 2019 at the Walnut Stree…
The Temptations are one of the most popular music groups of all-time. They left a huge footprint on the industry, and now they've extended to Broadway. Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of…
One of the landmarks of Broadway is its constant innovation year after year, and the most innovative show of this season is Hadestown. This musical from composer Anaïs Mitchell started as…
"Master Harold"… and the Boys by Athol Fugard. Lane Savadove directs for EgoPo Classic Theater through April 7, 2019, at the Latvian Society Theater, 531 N. 7th Street, Philadelphia. Â …
The Few by Samuel D. Hunter, Matthew Decker directing through April 7, 2019, at Theatre Horizon, Norristown, PA Â The Few starts slowly, and gradually unfolds to reveal an interesting cha…
Miss Saigon by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil, and Richard Maltby Jr. Directed by Laurence Connor. Broadway Philadelphia through March 31, 2019, at the Academy of Music, 240 S. B…
Rent has reached the status of a classic. The audience at the Merriam Theatre of the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia treated it that way as the national touring production opened for a five-da…
Fans of Dancing With The Stars were disappointed when we heard there would be no spring season in 2019, for the first time in the show's history. This left a long gap in between seasons when…
There are two strong reasons to welcome a revival of the musical Lolita, My Love, which is being staged at the York Theatre at Saint Peter's from February 23 through March 3 as part of its "…
Awake and Sing! by Clifford Odets. Quintessence Theare Group at the Sedgewick Theatre in Philadelphia through February 24, 2019. Max Shulman directs. Awake and Sing! dramatizes issues…
The Bridges of Madison County. Philadelphia Theatre Company through March 3, 2019.  For its second production " and first musical " since its reorganization, Philadelphia The…
Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw, a new version with additional scenes by Chelsea Marcantel. Bud Martin directs at Delaware Theater Company, Wilmington Delaware through February 24, 2019. &…
Three Sisters Two by Reza de Wet. Brenna Geffers directs for EgoPo Classic Theater, Philadelphia, February 2019. There's a connection between Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, Reza de We…
A Comedy of Tenors by Ken Ludwig. Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, through March 3, 2019. Ken Ludwig has a talent for writing farces that are extremely challenging for the actors.…
Becoming Dr. Ruth by Mark St. Germain. Through February 17, 2019 at Act II Playhouse, Ambler, PA. I remember a Sunday night in the 1980s. I was driving through North Jersey, listening…
Completeness is an ironic title since the characters are notably incomplete. This 2011 play by the talented Itamar Moses is newly revised and is directed by Matt Pfeiffer for Theatre Exile i…
She Loves Me. Music & lyrics by Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick. Directed by Matthew Decker for Villanova University Theater through November 18, 2018. She Loves Me is a unique…
The Manor. On-site production at Greystone Hall, West Chester, PA through November 18, 2018. This is a return of a production we recommended one year ago when it had its East Coast pr…
One of America’s favorite Thanksgiving traditions is coming back to Oaks, Pennsylvania. The National Dog Show will be returning yet again to the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oak…
Happy Birthday Wanda June by Kurt Vonnegut, directed by Jeff Wise for Wheelhouse Theatre Company at the Duke on 42nd Street, New York, through November 29, 2018. The novelist Kurt Von…
