19 stories by "JIM RUTTER"
Controversial performer and monologuist Mike Daisey takes on another controversial performer and monologuist: Donald Trump.
Controversial performer and monologuist Mike Daisey takes on another controversial performer and monologuist: Donald Trump.
BalletX's Summer Series brings technology into dance. But in the contest between human and machine, which one prevails?
Mauckingbird's imaginative, gender-bending staging of A Midsummer Night's Dream offers a spectacle that the Facebook generation can sink its teeth right into, notwithstanding the limitations…
"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger." Nietzsche's dictum, great for individuals seeking motivation, bad for couples incapable of masking mutual resentment. Case in point: Jason Robert Br…
The Arden Theatre first staged Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music in 1995 at the Arts Bank on Broad and South Streets. Two decades on, they've upstaged the musical with a gorgeously des…
People's Light and Theatre Company presents a moving, majestic production of August Wilson's "Seven Guitars," says critic Jim Rutter.
'Jeff Coons and Ben Dibble Must Die' is 20 minutes of theater-world in-joke delight, then a bit of a time-waster.
Must the show always go on? In 18 years of theatergoing in Philadelphia, I had never been sent home at intermission because a company could not continue the production " until Saturday.
Two Philadelphia dance leaders -- Kate Watson-Wallace and Jaamil Kosoko -- and their companies have joined forces as a new "sustainable" collaborative. Jim Rutter talks with them.
This compelling production and Ann Crumb's chilling performance transfix our gaze long enough to render something beautiful out of tragedy, says critic Jim Rutter.
Kurt Vonnegut grappled fatalistically with the horrors of World War II in his 1969 sci-fi novel "Slaughterhouse-Five" -- and Eric Simonson's stage adaptation at Curio Theatre Company absorb…
A new creative work that attempts to dramatize playwright Tennessee Williams' final moments must transcend available information., says critic Jim Rutter. The solid production at South Cam…
Critic Jim Rutter writes that Jon Marans' theatrically ambitious but overwrought "A Raw Space," now receiving a stilted world premiere at Bristol Riverside Theatre, started with a solid if u…
Until recently Philadelphia's theater community seemed mired in edgy plays about alienated 30-somethings in dysfunctional families. But four recent productions" all intelligent, challenging,…
Most romantic comedies succeed by indulging fantasy: men want to date out of their league; women want a nice guy they can whip into a socially respectable man. Robin Pond's Even Steven, at t…
Brat Productions' quick-change romp "Meanwhile ..." show Madi Distefano stretching her writer's chops and a production that has its highs and lows, says critic Jim Rutter.
Philadelphia's Arden and Wilma theaters open their seasons this month with large-cast plays populated by local actors. That's a tribute to the growing wealth of local talent available" and a…
In Lydia, Octavio Solis captures the mixture of poetry, magic and dysfunction that characterize Hispanic-American families. But he also borrows heavily from America's most celebrated Anglo p…
