The Mountaintop is a fantasia rooted in one of the most tragic events of the twentieth century. Set on the final night in the life of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Katori Hall's play takes Ki…
A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline marks the second time in two years that Bristol Riverside Theatre has staged a show about the life of Cline, one of country music's greatest stars. (Always… …
King John, one of Shakespeare's lesser-known history plays, is filled with intrigue, betrayal, and a pair of kings who are constantly threatening to go to war. In other words, it's perfect f…
It was just two and a half years ago that the Arden Theatre presented a version of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters that used a fresh, slangy translation. It took a musty classic and made it fe…
The Elementary Spacetime Show is an unusual musical about a subject you don't often see onstage: teenage suicide. With music, book and lyrics by César Alvarez, the show treads the line betw…
Bill Forchion is an accomplished circus performer, a veteran of Cirque du Soleil, and Ringling Brothers. He's also a real charmer, with a smile the size of a big top and the stage persona of…
In Surface Tension, the Philadelphia-based circus arts company Tangle Movement Arts spotlights the skills of six female performers. They use ropes, swings, bungee cords, and aerial silks in …
A wordy drama from the 19th century about capitalism, duplicity, and women's role in English society. Sounds like it might be rather tough to get through, doesn't it? Well, don't be fooled. …
The Berserker Residents, a Philadelphia-based troupe, has been writing and performing inspired comedy for years. Their irreverent 2010 offering The Very Merry Xmas Carol Holiday Adventure Sh…
"This isn't the Ken Burns musical documentary on James Baldwin," said Stew about two-thirds of the way through his latest show, Notes of a Native Song. He was right. Notes of a Native Song m…
The title tells you all you need to know about Chris Davis' new show at the Fringe Festival. When you enter the performance space " a small room inside a Southwest Philly warehouse that's se…
Greg Kennedy bills himself as an "Innovative Juggler," and he lives up to that billing in Spherus, his show now running as part of the 201 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Kennedy's style is ro…
Animal Farm to Table isn't like any other show in the Fringe Festival. The show, conceived and directed by Mike Durkin for The Renegade Company, is performed on an actual (but small) working…
Who would have thought that 2016 would be the year we saw not one, but two musicals about… food preparation? Just six months ago, Bucks County Playhouse premiered A Taste of Things to Come…
About halfway through Ray Didinger's new play Tommy and Me, one of the characters mentions Joe Kuharich. On the night I attended the play, the audience responded with a round of derisive lau…
Fool for Love is a pretty short play, and its plot isn't especially complex: A couple of longtime lovers with a volatile history meet to battle again in a seedy motel room in the Mojave Dese…
The new production of Love's Labour's Lost at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival continues a tradition the festival began several summers ago of creating a production in a fashion similar to …
For its eleventh annual summer offering, Shakespeare in Clark Park is offering a take on The Two Gentlemen of Verona that feels light and airy as the summer breeze wafting across the park. I…
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers haven't even said grace. So says the Mother Superior of St. Veronica's Convent School, the lead character in the new play at the Bucks County Playhou…
I Am Not My Motherland, the latest play from the Orbiter 3 playwriting collective, is about a medical operation that has complications, and about a relationship between two surgeons that als…
Scholars, theatergoers and activists have been debating The Taming of the Shrew for about four centuries. Just what was Shakespeare, with his tale of the warring lovers Katherina and Petruch…
Spoiler Alert: The two main characters in this play die. Well, you probably figured that out, given that the play they're in is called Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Or maybe you fig…
Roseburg examines two incidents that took place a few miles, and several decades, apart. Yet they're connected in a tragic way, through America's fixation on guns. And while the show is focu…
If there's one thing the Old Academy Players are known for, it's traditions. The venerable troupe was founded in 1923, and has been performing for most of its existence in a building complet…
As Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage opens, two couples meet for a civilized discussion. Their sons have just had a violent playground encounter that cost one of the boys a couple teeth, and the…