289 stories from City Paper (Philadelphia)
The first clue that this is farce? The six doors on Dirk Durossette's colorful hotel suite set. The second is the breathless pace of director Bud Martin's production of Ken Ludwig's 1986 com…
To director Alexander Burns' credit, both fit perfectly and are staged with all necessary dynamism. Their uneven performances, however, suggest a tentativeness with classic comedy. Both wort…
The harrowing drama confronts the vanishing middle class
Trying to make Shakespeare more accessible to kids via animated robots and modern English
Jared Michael Delaney's first full-length play, presented by Inis Nua Theatre Company, barrages us with ridiculousness. Adam Altman, Harry Smith and Delaney himself are dim-witted Irish lads…
"Who steals my purse steals trash," says Iago in Othello. But if you doubt that Shakespeare knew the power of money " and its ability to corrupt " look no further than his Timon of Athens. T…
Mark Cofta reviews the Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre's latest offerings
In Michael Whistler's charming new play, wounded souls bond over baking.
Houdini's Wikipedia page provides more excitement about his showmanship than this play.
Henry V is officially categorized as one of Shakespeare's histories, though to me it's more specific than that: It's his Boy Play. Don't get me wrong. It's a fine play, at points a very grea…
Writers talking about writing sounds deadly dull, but not in Theresa Rebeck's capable hands. Her play Seminar reveals writing " here, fiction, at which she excels, as well as playwriting and…
The Walnut Street Theatre fits one serious contemporary play into each season of musicals and crowd-pleasers, and David Lindsay-Abaire's 2011 Broadway hit Good People fills that role this ti…
The East Hull native's drama about his city's once-thriving fishing industry receives a stunning Wilma Theater North American premiere.
You might be tempted to assume that A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 play about a family in Chicago striving for a better life, is an important part of our theatrical past. Thi…
Hurlyburly is crude, rude and deep, despite its main characters' shallowness, and packs a wallop.
Reviewing 1812 Productions' To Fool the Eye.
This gripping play about love, class and art shows how all four characters contribute to Vincent's seemingly impossible, yet inevitable, growth from callow youth to immortal artist.
David Holman's surprisingly involving adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's 1835 story swept me away.
Theatre Exile's The North Plan attempts to cross Homeland with My Name Is Earl.
Robot-Human Theater offers a peek at our mechanized future.
David Schulner's two-person play reveals a seemingly ordinary love story's 50-year arc in 90 minutes, from awkward first date to final bedside goodbye. In Bi Jean Ngo and Griffin Stanton-Ame…
Labor strikes tend to be extraordinarily high-stakes pieces of street theater. So it's not surprising that a recent strike by 27 stagehands at Broad Street's Suzanne Roberts Theatre very nea…
New two-person offerings from the Arden's InterAct, Act II and Luna.
Beauty Queen isn't easy to take " and it's not to be missed.
A heartwarming story, an innovative experiment in puppetry, physical comedy and clowning.
