Sherlock Holmes is an enduring character in the annals of detective fiction. A master of deduction, Holmes has been the subject of countless movies and plays, one of the most famous of which…
If you open the dictionary and look up the word 'life,' one entry reads: 'a period of animate existence.' Composer Troy Herion gives this explanation for the title of Pig Iron Theatre Compan…
Inside a museum dedicated to art from the past, the O17 Festival has brought a new opera which celebrates musical and literary styles from the past. Composer/librettist David Hertzberg built…
For its fourth annual Fringe offering, Revolution Shakespeare returns to South Philadelphia's Hawthorne Park with another free outdoor selection from the Bard's canon. This year's production…
In a recent satire published on Medium, the San Francisco writer/actor/comedian Alison Page listed five dozen “Honest Theatre Awards.” Among them was one that struck me as an apt…
Created by Michael McHugh, directed by Peter Tupitza, and starring the fabulous Eric Singel, JC Productions' revival of Joan Crawford in Her Own Words reunites the show's original team for a…
Corinna Burns is not just skilled at acting, she's also a superb writer and an enthralling storyteller, and she's proving it once again in this year's Fringe Festival with Bind. Her latest o…
Sondra Radvanovsky's recital as part of Opera Philadelphia's O17 Festival was a spectacular event. That may seem like an oxymoron to some readers, who expect singer/pianist recitals to be in…
Opera singers, jugglers, tango dancers, strippers, puppets, and way more gather for the Mucho KlunchoTalent Show! An epic assemblage of talent, the likes of which DC hasn't seen in centuries…
Native Gardens is a bloomin' hysterical comedy at Arena Stage Need something to boost you up? Perhaps something to make you, temporarily, forget the current political and social climate? Or,…
Five fabulous divas joined the innovative new American Pops Orchestra to celebrate the music of Aretha Franklin at the Arena Stage's Fichandler Stage on September 16. An energized audience s…
For its inaugural offering in the Fringe, Juniper Productions, founded earlier this year, partners with Philadelphia Distilling for a themed site-specific presentation of four commissioned s…
In these days of the end of the brick-and-mortar retail shops, and in these times when new audiences are less likely to purchase subscriptions to the performing arts as Baby Boomers once did…
Ripcord is the story of a cutthroat battle of practical jokes and dirty tricks between two women in an assisted-living residence for the elderly. Does that seem unlikely? Then you've neve…
In the first scene of LadyM, a show devised by Francesca Chilcote, Rachel Hynes, Vanita Kalra, and Anastasia Wilson, a woman dressed in white dumps an entire bottle of ketchup onto a burger.…
In a delectable mash-up of the 2017 Fringe with an extended Restaurant Week, Franky Bradley's gives festival-goers the option of enjoying dinner while attending the latest all-new offering b…
The Addams Family, made famous by American cartoonist Charles Addams in 1938 in The New Yorker, became well-loved in the 1960s when adapted for television, starring John Astin and Carolyn Jo…
"Do you want to talk, or do you want to be cryptic and weird?" Those words " which sound like they might belong in a lot of Sam Shepard's plays " appear in the first scene of Shepard's Simpa…
Actor and activist Bob Weick is back in the Fringe with his signature touring show Marx in Soho by Howard Zinn, which he first performed in the festival in 2004. Presented by Iron Age Theatr…
Andras Viskey’s I Killed My Mother, now in production at Spooky Action Theater, is a challenging bit of business. Its wordless opening is several minutes of wordless wandering by va…
The opening of Ira Levin's Deathtrap this weekend marked the start of the 50th Season for Silver Spring Stage. The play, which opened on Broadway in the late 1970s, is a suspense thriller wi…
Who decides who lives or dies, and how is that just? These are the questions playwright Kash Goins implores audiences to think about in his new play SEVENTY IV SECONDS… to judgment at the …
Hypnotic, transportive, and exquisitely beautiful, Mistress of the Maze marks the unforgettable debut of WeftWorks with its stunning world-premiere performance in the 2017 Fringe. Created, c…
First things first: Lee Minora's solo show Cheeks is a laugh riot. Do not miss an opportunity to see this show. It is both whip smart and hysterical (both in the colloquial meaning and a fem…
What would you rather see: Fanny Brice singing on a tugboat in New York harbor, or a real live Fanny Brice in the Ziegfeld Follies? Funny Girl, the original 1964 Broadway musical, is a real …