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Awards for extremely specific on-stage achievements.
And what do they talk about in Lucile Lichtblau's elegant, smart, riveting new play, being given a knockout premiere production at Theatre Exile? The drudgery of daily work life. How to flir…
Local theaters get into the spirit of the season with Scrooge, young Santa and elves on strike.
We review Lantern Theater's freewheeling The Liar.
I'm always surprised by how small actress Cathy Simpson looks on stage, because her performances become gigantic in my memory.
A lot of hyperactivity can't overshadow the clever wordplay and incisive ideas about sexuality, celebrity and art in director Kevin Glaccum's colorful production.
Mark St. Germain imagines the dialogue between two titanic thinkers in a way that only a hack writer could, turning it into a stream of platitudes and cute aphorisms.
Alienation, photography and a whole lot of Jews on stage this month.
Reviewing Luna Theatre Co.'s Seventy Scenes of Halloween.
May we have a universal moratorium on heaping accolades on new musicals for bravely tackling difficult subject matter? It's 2012, people. Stephen Sondheim has made an almost 60-year career o…
Blanka Zizka's production of Angels in America at the Wilma is one of the triumphant events in my 20-plus years of Philadelphia theatergoing.
Walnut Street Theatre's Love Story makes no apologies.
Highlights from Live Arts/Fringe so far.
Mauckingbird's Much Ado About Nothing posits a world in which the two lead couples are gay men.
Director David O'Connor approaches Shakespeare's seldom-seen romance in "let's tell a story" style. Performers from the Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre's Classical Acting Academy mingle wit…
GayFest!'s solo performers on the benefits of going it alone.
With the Theatre Alliance gone, the future of the Barrymore Awards is murky.
Our take on four wildly varying new productions about tulips, ghosts, AIDS and hateful people.
Enda Walsh's play is free of the maudlin self-pity that is the soda bread of life for so many Irish dramatists. Don't get me wrong: Walworth Farce is profoundly sad " and funny, scary and de…
The somewhat slight A Behanding in Spokane may not be one of McDonagh's best plays, but it retains his characteristic combination of shock and dark humor.
The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre's two plays in repertory provide an illuminating contrast. Artistic Director Carmen Khan's elegantly melancholy Twelfth Night and Aaron Cromie's darkly c…
Few playwrights could find laughs in topics like aging, Alzheimer's and euthanasia, but Bruce Graham succeeds in The Outgoing Tide, receiving a splendid area premiere by the Philadelphia The…
Fluid and often funny, yet fragile in its sad, glorious ending, this Cyrano succeeds as both swashbuckling adventure and tragic love story. The Arden's production has what Cyrano calls "pana…
Sam Shepard, America's playwright and poet laureate of the modern West, is in his best form in Curse of the Starving Class, a searingly funny-sad take on family dysfunction. Curse dates from…
A month-old lamb with an ear tag reading 1062 is gently but persistently gumming this writer's shoes in a large, straw-filled, chain-link enclosure around the back of the Wilma Theater.
