The Filter ensemble shows the audience a good time with lots of music, noise, and laughs within a Shakespeare play environment.
View More TWELFTH NIGHT (Filter Theatre in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company): A rousing Shakespearean travestyCategory: Reviews
V to X (GoKash Productions): Clear and present injustice
While most political theater in Philly is unfortunately limp, V TO X presents a clear and despicable injustice, and does so with real, emotionally complex characters
View More V to X (GoKash Productions): Clear and present injusticeTHE SISTERHOOD (Mauckingbird): Queering Moliere
It doesn’t take a Moliere scholar to enjoy these zany characters, brilliantly brought to life by the ensemble.
View More THE SISTERHOOD (Mauckingbird): Queering MoliereBALLET HISPANICO (Annenberg Center Live): Boldness and diversity of dances
The three dances Ballet Hispanico picked for the performance at the Annenberg Center show the diversity of Hispanic cultures and their dances.
View More BALLET HISPANICO (Annenberg Center Live): Boldness and diversity of dancesA TASTE OF THINGS TO COME (BCP): Delicious flavors
Sprinkled with furiously funny lines, steeped in talent, and infused with courageous choreography by Lorin Latorro, A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME is boldly brilliant theatrical buffet with something for everyone!
View More A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME (BCP): Delicious flavorsTHE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR (IRC): Corruption!
A production that forefronts Gogol’s surprising, desperate, hypnotizing dialogue. Illustration by Mike Jackson.
View More THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR (IRC): Corruption!THE SISTERHOOD (MAUCKINGBIRD): A delightful hi-brow comedy skewers hi-brow pretensions
While some plays are heavy three course meals, THE SISTERHOOD is definitely dessert.
View More THE SISTERHOOD (MAUCKINGBIRD): A delightful hi-brow comedy skewers hi-brow pretensionsSTRENGTH & LONGING (PA Ballet): Longing for higher and stronger
The selections show artistic director Angel Corella’s close attention to the dancers’ talents and characters and his passion to bring out the best in them.
View More STRENGTH & LONGING (PA Ballet): Longing for higher and strongerEXIT STRATEGY (PTC): All due respect
Holter’s play calls out and subverts the “inspirational white teacher” motif in popular culture because EXIT STRATEGY avoids the Hollywoodization of the decay of America’s public school system.
View More EXIT STRATEGY (PTC): All due respectEZRALOW DANCE (Dance Affiliates): Showcase of groovy and unpredicted imagination
Daniel Ezralow, the director and choreographer of Ezralow Dance, has been internationally recognized and awarded for his visceral and imaginative work, which includes the opening…
View More EZRALOW DANCE (Dance Affiliates): Showcase of groovy and unpredicted imaginationOR (Hedgerow): love, lust, loyalties and loads of laughter!
Set in London, 1660, Liz Duffy Adams’s rollicking historical romp explores the remarkable life of Aphra Behn, a spy, poet, and England’s first professional female playwright.
View More OR (Hedgerow): love, lust, loyalties and loads of laughter!HARVEY (Walnut): Burns slow, then hops right along
The story is a little dated, but that is part of its charm, like watching a Norman Rockwell painting come to life.
View More HARVEY (Walnut): Burns slow, then hops right alongTO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Media): Killing Lee’s mockingbird
In directing Christopher Sergel’s dramatic adaptation of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Jesse Cline is uncharacteristically too reverential about the material.
View More TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Media): Killing Lee’s mockingbird#THEREVOLUTION (InterAct): The vapid rebellion
What would happen if a bunch of early-20-something city-dwelling music-video-watching lower-middle-class variously privileged poorish Americans launched a violent revolution against the state?
View More #THEREVOLUTION (InterAct): The vapid rebellionTHE IT GIRL (Simpatico): Sounds of silence that still resonate
A world-premiere fictionalized bio-play on silent-film star Clara Bow captures the era and the lessons of her life and career as seen through a contemporary lens.
View More THE IT GIRL (Simpatico): Sounds of silence that still resonateOSCAR WILDE: FROM THE DEPTHS (Lantern): A love that dared not speak its mind
With his brilliant work and tragic arc, Oscar Wilde remains a fascinating figure.
View More OSCAR WILDE: FROM THE DEPTHS (Lantern): A love that dared not speak its mindREVERIE (Drexel Dance Ensemble): Young artistry on display
An anthology showcase, where most of the choreographers and all of the dancers were students.
View More REVERIE (Drexel Dance Ensemble): Young artistry on displayESCUELA (Guillermo Calderón/ FringeArts): You say you want a revolution
A narrowly focused, transportative work about a cell of Marxist revolutionaries, like entering a fading kodachrome snapshot.
View More ESCUELA (Guillermo Calderón/ FringeArts): You say you want a revolutionSORRY, BROKEN PIANO (Art Church): Indie shock jock drama
A podcast DJ and his tireless producer on a mission to conquer the late-night dregs-of-society demographic.
View More SORRY, BROKEN PIANO (Art Church): Indie shock jock dramaTHE LANGUAGE ARCHIVE (BRT): A poetic parable about the language of love
Julia Cho’s lofty romantic comedy examines the beauty of language and the failure of humans to communicate.
View More THE LANGUAGE ARCHIVE (BRT): A poetic parable about the language of love