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Anna, based on Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, adapted and directed by Brenna Geffers. EgoPo Classic Theater, April 2017. Ego Po's latest production uses an innovative approach to a Rus…
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare. Arden Theatre, Philadelphia, March 2017. This Arden Theatre production is the funniest Midsummer Night's Dream of recent memory. Dire…
Bull in a China Shop, by Bryna Turner; directed by Lee Sunday Evans at the Claire Tow Theater of Lincoln Center, New York. The name of Mary Woolley has become obscured by the passage …
Hand to God, comedy by Robert Askins, Philadelphia Theatre Company, April 2017. A former minister from Texas, Robert Askins, wrote a vicious denunciation of religious hypocrisy in his…
The King and I by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II. Bartlett Sher directed. On tour, 2017. The King and I continues to offer new interpretations, 66 years after it was crea…
Come From Away. Book, music & lyrics by Irene Sankoff & David Hein. Schoenfeld Theatre, New York City, March 2017. A hit musical has opened on Broadway and it's about……
Tomfoolery. Tony Braithwaite directed at Act II Playhouse, March-April 2017 To young people of a certain generation, Tom Lehrer was the pied piper. In the conformist 1950s he wrote so…
Lost Girls by John Pollono, directed by Joe Canuso. Theatre Exile, Philadelphia, March 2017 I've seen so many dramas about losers that I'm tired of the genre. I get impatient with peo…
Bull in a China Shop by Bryna Turner, directed by Lee Sunday Evans at the Claire Tow Theater of Lincoln Center, New York. The name of Mary Woolley has become obscured by the passage o…
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Simon Stephens, based on the novel by Mark Haddon. Directed by Marianne Elliott for national tour. The hero of this play is, in p…
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov; Lane Savadove directed. EgoPo Classic Theater, Philadelphia, February 2017. Not everyone likes Chekhov's The Seagull. Despite it being a lauded masterpie…
Grand Concourse by Heidi Schreck; Beth Lopes directed at Theatre Horizon, Norristown PA, February 2017. Combining its selection of play with a mission to help hungry and homeless peop…
Dancing With the Stars on tour, Upper Darby, PA, January 2017 Dancing With The Stars may be off TV, between seasons, but the choreography hasn't stopped. Ten of the most talented ball…
The Nose, by Nikolai Gogol. EgoPo Classic Theatre, Philadelphia, January 2017 In the midst of its season devoted to Russian classics, the EgoPo theater company scheduled a fund-raisin…
The Road: My Life With John Denver. By Randal Myler and Dan Wheetman. Myler directed at Peoples Light & Theatre, Malvern, PA. January 2017 The latest musical at Peoples Light has…
In Transit. Book, music & lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, James-Allen Ford, Russ Kaplan and Sara Wordsworth. Directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall. Circle in the Square, New …
Allegiance. Music & lyrics by Jay Kuo, book by Marc Acito, Jay Kuo and Lorenzo Thione. Stafford Arima directed. Presented in movie theaters by Fathom Events. Allegiance had a shor…
She Loves Me. Music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, book by Joe Masteroff, based on a play by Miklos Laszlo. 2016 Broadway production, presented in HD in movie theaters by Fathom E…
The National Dog Show, presented by the Kennel Club of Philadelphia. NBC telecast on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 2016, as recorded live on November 19 & 20 at the Greater Phila…
Delirium, an adaptation by Enda Walsh of The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. EgoPo Classic Theater in Philadelphia. Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov is great literature,…
Guards at the Taj, by Rajiv Joseph. Deborah Block directed at Theatre Exile, Philadelphia. Shah Mirza Jahan was a cultured patron of the arts. His reign in the 17th century was consid…
Mauritius, by Theresa Rebeck, through November 20, 2016 at Act II Playhouse, 56 E. Butler Ave., Ambler PA. Theresa Reback's Mauritius channels David Mamet at his best while eschewing …
A New Brain. Music and lyrics by William Finn, Matthew Decker directed at Theatre Horizon, Norristown PA. A New Brain is a musical about the life-threatening illness of the composer a…
When Donald Trump's Access Hollywood recording became public, politicians panicked about how they should respond. The heads of two Philadelphia-area theater companies, on the other hand, vie…
This is the Week That Is: Election Special. 1812 Productions, performing at Plays & Players Theatre in Philadelphia, October & November 2016. Will Rogers used gentle, folksy…
