It’s a tragedy that more audiences will not have a chance to enjoy the production.
View More ROMEO AND JULIET (OJ Productions): 2022 Fringe reviewAuthor: Kathryn Osenlund
LATE NIGHT SNACKS FAMILY SHOW (Bearded Ladies): 2022 Fringe review
Okay: A drag queen show for children.
View More LATE NIGHT SNACKS FAMILY SHOW (Bearded Ladies): 2022 Fringe reviewWatching THE TWO-CHARACTER PLAY (OUT-CRY) by Tennessee Williams
This play-within-a-play about a play takes place on the Bluver Theatre’s tiny stage, brightly lit, although called dim by the characters. The audience, up close…
View More Watching THE TWO-CHARACTER PLAY (OUT-CRY) by Tennessee WilliamsRomeo & Juliet in a Bar (Shakespeare on Tap): 2022 Fringe review
A little bit naughty at times, semi-Shakespearean lingo is mixed with a good deal of TomFoolery.
View More Romeo & Juliet in a Bar (Shakespeare on Tap): 2022 Fringe reviewFOOD (Geoff Sobelle): 2022 Fringe review
Unless you know Geoff Sobelle’s other works, you’ve never seen anything like this.
View More FOOD (Geoff Sobelle): 2022 Fringe reviewNOT RIGHT NOW (James Christy): 2022 Fringe review
There are many, many moments that become stories.
View More NOT RIGHT NOW (James Christy): 2022 Fringe reviewLooking Back: An early Pig Iron production
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 productionLooking 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 review