ames Joyce is Dead And So Is Paris was presented at Christ Church Annex in Old City in 2003. It was something else!
View More Looking Back: An early Pig Iron productionAuthor: Kathryn Osenlund
Looking Back: Two works by Thaddeus Phillips
In today’s edition of my look back on theater from years past, I remember two Thaddeus Phillips works from 2015 and 2017: Alias Ellis Mackenzie and A Billion Nights on Earth.
View More Looking Back: Two works by Thaddeus PhillipsLooking Back: I Am My Own Wife at the Wilma and Theatre Horizon
Kathryn Osenlund remembers two productions of I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright.
View More Looking Back: I Am My Own Wife at the Wilma and Theatre HorizonLooking Back: Chekhov Lizardbrain & Red Eye to Havre de Grace
Kathryn Osenlund remembers two productions from Fringe Festivals past
View More Looking Back: Chekhov Lizardbrain & Red Eye to Havre de GraceLooking Back at the Theater: Remembering two outstanding performances at Bristol Riverside Theater (BRT)
In a new series, Phindie takes a walk down memory lane to briefly revisit memorable theater performances in Philadelphia and environs.
View More Looking Back at the Theater: Remembering two outstanding performances at Bristol Riverside Theater (BRT)Remembering Mercutios and Tybalts
In recent days of home-captivity my mind has wandered to Romeo & Juliet performances, new and old. But I’m more interested in Mercutio and Tybalt than the star-crossed lovers.
View More Remembering Mercutios and TybaltsRemembering Hamlets
Cooped up inside, with no theater in sight, I’m remembering Hamlets I’ve known.
View More Remembering HamletsDESCRIBE THE NIGHT (Wilma): Put on your thinking caps
Put on your thinking cap if you’re thinking of going to see DESCRIBE THE NIGHT
View More DESCRIBE THE NIGHT (Wilma): Put on your thinking capsA WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE (Walnut Street): Dropping a stream of bon mots from the sofa
How wonderful that we have Oscar Wilde’s works and can go and see his plays
View More A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE (Walnut Street): Dropping a stream of bon mots from the sofaTHE SNOW QUEEN (Arden Children’s Theatre): Not a sugar-coated fairy tale
“In the realm of the unknown, kids and adults have pretty much the same needs: courage, resilience, protection.”
View More THE SNOW QUEEN (Arden Children’s Theatre): Not a sugar-coated fairy taleMARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN (Lookingglass Theatre Company at McCarter): Second review
There’s ethereal magic to be found in this stripped and reconstituted Victorian Gothic piece
View More MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN (Lookingglass Theatre Company at McCarter): Second reviewTHE MURDER AND BOOZE CABARET (Love Drunk Life) 2019 Fringe review
Recreates the breezy cynicism of a 1920s speakeasy
View More THE MURDER AND BOOZE CABARET (Love Drunk Life) 2019 Fringe reviewCOME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA (IRC): 2019 Fringe review
IRC widens the scope of what absurdism means in our absurd world
View More COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA (IRC): 2019 Fringe reviewRED LODGE, MONTANA (The Antidote): 2019 Fringe review
A bizarro fusion of indolence, violence, nudity, sex, and dance
View More RED LODGE, MONTANA (The Antidote): 2019 Fringe reviewA MANAYUNK MYSTERY TOUR (Manayunk Theatre Company): 2019 Fringe review
Shadowy figures lurk on the dark towpath under the Green Lane Bridge. That would be us.
View More A MANAYUNK MYSTERY TOUR (Manayunk Theatre Company): 2019 Fringe reviewCONSTELLATIONS (Quantum Theater Group/Wings of Paper): 60-second review
This is a fine production and it’s exciting to have a new Northeast Philly theater company.
View More CONSTELLATIONS (Quantum Theater Group/Wings of Paper): 60-second reviewIrving Berlin’s HOLIDAY INN (Surflight Theatre): 60-second review
This HOLIDAY INN is very, very impressive for a regional seashore show, in fact it would be impressive anywhere,
View More Irving Berlin’s HOLIDAY INN (Surflight Theatre): 60-second reviewTHE GODS OF COMEDY (McCarter Theatre): 60-second review
A charming comedy buried under an avalanche of frenetic activity
View More THE GODS OF COMEDY (McCarter Theatre): 60-second reviewGEM OF THE OCEAN (Arden): A thing of beauty
GEM OF THE OCEAN is about a lot of things, including race, mysticism, and murder.
View More GEM OF THE OCEAN (Arden): A thing of beautyBOB: A LIFE IN FIVE ACTS (Azuka Theatre): Great things are done by a series of small things brought together
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together —Vincent Van Gogh When Bob is born and immediately deserted in a White…
View More BOB: A LIFE IN FIVE ACTS (Azuka Theatre): Great things are done by a series of small things brought together