If you are a musical theatre fanatic, like me, with a mammoth record collection, then you have always wanted to see Jamaica. Well, cross that off my bucket list. Freedom Theatre has done it …
Power. Election. Power. Primaries. Backroom Deals! Power! It's election season again, and the media is overflowing with comment and analysis. After the surprise of the 2008 election and the …
Exactly 100 years ago, a group of Irish poets, musicians, writers and dreamers seized the Dublin Post Office, (yes, that's right, the Post Office) in an ill conceived attempt to surprise the…
The Broadway Musical flowered in the years following World War II. Many of the musicals produced during this "golden age" remain treasures of our lyric theater. One of the best will alwa…
A phoenix arises! The New Freedom Theatre is back with a solid professional production. After many seasons of darkness, except for their acclaimed theatre school, the lights are on again wit…
School shootings are inexplicable. A high school used to be an open welcoming location. Today they are locked-down prisons, intently suspicious of any unusual activity. Any play that tries t…
"Crimes of Passion" have always stimulated audiences, and America in the 1920's had one of the great ones. Ruth Synder killed her loathsome husband with the help of her boyfriend. Both were …
One hundred years ago a group of Irish poets, musicians and classical scholars rebelled against English rule. The "Easter Uprising" was cruelly subdued by the occupying British, but this bei…
Bravo to the Stagecrafters of Chestnut Hill. Their production of Clifford Odets' The Country Girl captures all the hidden complexity of this powerful and difficult to achieve drama. Odets te…
One thing was abundantly clear as the youthful Quintessence Theatre Group cast took its curtain call to the cheers of a packed house: these players had fun. Fun you ask? Isn't this The T…
Walnut Street Theatre rocked with laughter tonight. The Pirate King, Black Stache, was arguing with his mate, Smee, concerning a severed. . .oh well you have to see it. It was like old time …
Repertory Theatre has all but vanished in this country today. Fortunately, one can still travel to cities like DC and Philadelphia to see a company of actors enact a group of classic w…
Mark Rothko, the acclaimed abstract expressionist painter returns to Philadelphia in Red, the Tony Award-winning play by John Logan, at the tiny Independence Studio black box of the Walnut S…
New York may have millions of people, but it can be a lonely place if you are searching for love and coming off a failed relationship. I Love You Because features 4 young people naviga…