Danton, Marat, Robespierre, and their ilk have mostly been forgotten, while the guillotined Marie retains fame.
View More MARIE ANTOINETTE (Curio): You say you want a revolution?Category: Reviews
PASSING STRANGE (Wilma): Youth and rebellion
Youth is the time of our lives when the more adventurous among us follow French poet Arthur Rimbaud’s dictum that “everything we are taught is false.”
View More PASSING STRANGE (Wilma): Youth and rebellionA STEADY RAIN (Walnut St): An intense and engrossing cop show
If you’re a fan of TV police procedurals this is the play for you.
View More A STEADY RAIN (Walnut St): An intense and engrossing cop showAN EVENING WITH GROUCHO (Bucks County Playhouse): 60-second review
Frank Ferrante can turn into his boyhood and current idol, Groucho Marx, on a dime.
View More AN EVENING WITH GROUCHO (Bucks County Playhouse): 60-second reviewLOVE, LIES AND TAXIDERMY (Inis Nua): To Wales with love
Perhaps it is Harris’s adept characterization of economic pains and societal pressures which sets light romantic comedy in pleasant relief.
View More LOVE, LIES AND TAXIDERMY (Inis Nua): To Wales with loveWAIT UNTIL DARK (Hedgerow Theatre): For brilliant suspense…
Light, shadows, sound and silences coalesce with acting artistry to create a stirring, sensational air of suspense
View More WAIT UNTIL DARK (Hedgerow Theatre): For brilliant suspense…BALLETS JAZZ DE MONTREAL (NextMove Dance): An intriguing program of natural technique
Ballets Jazz de Montréal returned to the Prince Theater this weekend to perform three Philadelphia premieres.
View More BALLETS JAZZ DE MONTREAL (NextMove Dance): An intriguing program of natural techniqueNEXT TO NORMAL (Media Theatre): Powerful and poignant
Krissy Fraelich’s riveting central performance blends with the perfection of Geoffrey Goldberg’s direction to make this production not only powerful and poignant.
View More NEXT TO NORMAL (Media Theatre): Powerful and poignantMR BURNS (Villanova): The future in three acts
What would 21st-century American culture look like if all we knew about it was told generations after an apocalypse
View More MR BURNS (Villanova): The future in three actsHEISENBERG (Delaware Theatre Co.): 60-second review
What? Him again? Yes and no.
View More HEISENBERG (Delaware Theatre Co.): 60-second reviewTIME REMEMBERED (IRC): What is love and how do we kill it?
The IRC prove once again that they are able to pluck strange fruits out of theatrical history and serve them up ably.
View More TIME REMEMBERED (IRC): What is love and how do we kill it?WAITING FOR GODOT (Quintessence): Really absurd
Quintessence Theatre Group’s WAITING FOR GODOT strikes a balance between humor and pathos, between realism and ridiculousness.
View More WAITING FOR GODOT (Quintessence): Really absurdNINETEEN MOVEMENTS FOR UNACCOMPANIED CELLO (Scott Ordway): Sounding the Chestnut Hill Skyspace for a world premiere
The premiere of composer Scott Ordway’s Nineteen Movements for Unaccompanied Cello took place in the perfect setting – the James Turrell Skyspace in the Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting.
View More NINETEEN MOVEMENTS FOR UNACCOMPANIED CELLO (Scott Ordway): Sounding the Chestnut Hill Skyspace for a world premiereA dilettante at large: WRITTEN ON SKIN (Opera Philadelphia)
Philadelphia’s premiere drama critic, Toby Zinman knows her theater. Opera, not so much. Here’s her dilettante review of Opera Philadelphia’s WRITTEN ON SKIN.
View More A dilettante at large: WRITTEN ON SKIN (Opera Philadelphia)DANCES TO AMERICAN MUSIC (Mark Morris Dance Group and Music Ensemble): A breath of familiarity
Mark Morris Dance Group and Music Ensemble returns to Philadelphia after 14 years with Dances to American Music,
View More DANCES TO AMERICAN MUSIC (Mark Morris Dance Group and Music Ensemble): A breath of familiarityLYDIE BREEZE PART ONE: COLD HARBOR (EgoPo): Ambitious, sprawling, but emotionally hollow
COLD HARBOR is fast-paced and skillfully produced, with a large, stylistically diverse cast, but at its emotional core it is stiff and distant.
View More LYDIE BREEZE PART ONE: COLD HARBOR (EgoPo): Ambitious, sprawling, but emotionally hollowREALLY (Theatre Exile): Camera obscura
Discomfort is the name of the game here, but to what purpose?
View More REALLY (Theatre Exile): Camera obscuraTHE HUMANS (Walnut St): A nauseatingly annoying play, but maybe that’s the point
THE HUMANS is a difficult play to like or to watch
View More THE HUMANS (Walnut St): A nauseatingly annoying play, but maybe that’s the pointMORNING’S AT SEVEN (People’s Light): A sorority of acting talent
A delightful comedy that shows an evening and morning in the lives of four sisters
View More MORNING’S AT SEVEN (People’s Light): A sorority of acting talentSENSITIVE GUYS (InterAct): Satirizing the dialectic of sex
What’s being satirized in this social satire? Good question, with several answers.
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