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Knowing the inevitable doesn't negate the suspense in Quintessence Theatre Group's superb staging of Jean Anouilh's Antigone.
Knives in Hens isn't pleasant, but it is an engrossing, worthwhile and unique experience.
The behind-the-scenes action around Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park, an ingenious homage to Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 drama A Raisin in the Sun, has been drama-filled, to say the least.
The careers of some of America's greatest musical theater writers have ended with a whimper. So it's heartening that composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb's final work together, The Sco…
Sandra Bernhard makes it personal in her spontaneous one-woman mini-musical.
The timeless charms of E.B. White's classic Charlotte's Web speak for themselves, but Whit MacLaughlin's sprightly new staging of Joseph Robinette's straightforward adaptation for the Arden …
"I've always been sophisticated," says Amanda Prynne, the heroine of Noel Coward's beloved Private Lives. Generations of theater-goers agree with her " they follow the on-again, off-again ro…
There's so much to admire about The Whipping Man, Matthew Lopez's Civil War drama playing at the Arden Theatre Co., that its excesses can almost be overlooked.
Simplicity and clarity define Quintessence Theatre Group's Venetian Repertory, which rotates two Venice-set classics with the same strong cast.
Logan's very enjoyable play aims high. It doesn't always get there.
Two new productions take on the Holocaust, with mixed results.
If the prospect of an old religious trial about belief in God and adherence to rules sounds heavy and grim, give David Ives' version a chance. The playwright best known for comedy makes a po…
Tracy Letts' extraordinary play is the blackest comedy I've seen in years. It's also the funniest.
Young Philly theater companies in need of a place to call home take matters into their own hands.
In 1990, Aspects of Love was Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway follow-up to Phantom of the Opera. I don't need to tell you it fell short of that juggernaut, and Aspects is rarely revived. So it…
"This stuff is low. It is thin. It is unworthy of the talent and effort onstage. It is boring."
Our experts on theater, dance, visual arts and film wax nostalgic on three decades of reviews.
Highlights and lowlights from the last two weeks of Live Arts/Fringe.
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Highlights and lowlights from the festivals so far.
Dave Ebersole confronts his skepticism about straight/gay friendships " and makes a pal in the process.
PlayPenn gives local playwrights the tools to build (and rebuild).
"Ripped from the headlines" is better than "pulled out of your ass" " a story is always more engaging when you know it's based on truth. But in the case of A. Zell Williams' new play, In a D…
A brilliant production might help Ruined cohere, but at PTC, director Maria Mileaf traffics chiefly in big gestures. A few Brechtian touches feel out of place in what is basically a realisti…
Irish eyes are smiling on a West Philly-by-way-of-Galway production.
