Post-modern technology collides with human ethics in InterAct Theatre Company’s revolving world-premiere production of playwright-in-residence Thomas Gibbons’ UNCANNY VALLEY.
View More UNCANNY VALLEY (InterAct): What makes us human?Category: Reviews
NATIONAL PASTIME (Bucks County Playhouse): 60-second review
It’s 1933 in the struggling radio station WZBQ in Baker City, Iowa. Owner Barry hatches an ingenious plan to resurrect a defunct baseball team, boost ratings, and save the station.
View More NATIONAL PASTIME (Bucks County Playhouse): 60-second reviewSHE STOOPS TO CONQUER (Mechanical): An authentic delight!
What better place than Philadelphia’s historic Powel House for its resident company, The Mechanical Theater, to stage this historically faithful production.
View More SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER (Mechanical): An authentic delight!MACBETH (Arden): Shakepeare as spectacle [critical mass review #4]
It’s the fourth installment of the Critical Mass review of MACBETH at the Arden, but Julius Ferraro thinks too many works have already been written about an unremarkable piece of theater.
View More MACBETH (Arden): Shakepeare as spectacle [critical mass review #4]HAMLET (Wilma): Blanka Zizka’s daring production amazes while keeping its distance
Not unlike the U.S. Constitution, HAMLET endures partly because its imperfections and spaces allow for different ways to read it.
View More HAMLET (Wilma): Blanka Zizka’s daring production amazes while keeping its distanceTHE FAIR MAID OF THE WEST, PART I (PAC): A pirate adventure “worth gold!”
Thomas Heywood’s ridiculous rip-roaring romantic romp across the high seas of the English Renaissance is the latest in the Philadelphia Artists’ Collective’s acclaimed productions of rarely seen classics.
View More THE FAIR MAID OF THE WEST, PART I (PAC): A pirate adventure “worth gold!”MACBETH (Arden): Numb from the neck down, well almost [critical mass review #3]
Jessica Foley gives this week’s critical mass take on MACBETH at the Arden, part of a new review series on Phindie.
View More MACBETH (Arden): Numb from the neck down, well almost [critical mass review #3]THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (Lantern): Capturing the passion and the parody
Director Charles McMahon equates the hot-blooded battle of wills between Kate and Petruchio with the intense, sensual, and stylized dance of the tango.
View More THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (Lantern): Capturing the passion and the parodyRASHOMON (Luna): Kurosawa on the stage
Luna’s adaptation of one of the finest films ever made doesn’t dare to change enough to be much more than a translation of Kurosawa’s movie.
View More RASHOMON (Luna): Kurosawa on the stageCOLLECTED STORIES (Isis): Lifting the mothballed veils of secrecy
Donald Margulies’s shocking intergenerational encounter COLLECTED STORIES is given a brutal performance at the Walnut Street Theatre Studio
View More COLLECTED STORIES (Isis): Lifting the mothballed veils of secrecyYOUNG VOICES MONOLOGUE FESTIVAL 2015 (InterAct): The maturity of Millennials
Baby Boomers are certain that Millennials are nothing but lazy, uncultured slackers. The YOUNG VOICES FESTIVAL blasts that idea into smithereens.
View More YOUNG VOICES MONOLOGUE FESTIVAL 2015 (InterAct): The maturity of MillennialsMERRILY WE ROLL ALONG (Temple Theater): Parties and excess
The young talent the school is grooming stands out in the Temple Theater production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG.
View More MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG (Temple Theater): Parties and excessFIELD HOCKEY HOT (11th Hour): A champion of laughter
One does not know what to expect when walking into a production revolving around sports. Many seem to believe that sports and theater do not…
View More FIELD HOCKEY HOT (11th Hour): A champion of laughterMACBETH (Arden): Fast but not furious [critical mass review #2]
Alexander Burns’ production of MACBETH at Arden Theatre Company is energetic and visually engaging, but it lacks ferocity and substance.
View More MACBETH (Arden): Fast but not furious [critical mass review #2]METRONOME TICKING (Henrik Eger/Bob Spitz): Human beings on both sides of the Holocaust
METRONOME TICKING intertwines the memoirs a Holocaust survivor with the personal letters of an ambitious Third Reich propaganda officer to tell a story of love and empathy in the time of the Holocaust.
View More METRONOME TICKING (Henrik Eger/Bob Spitz): Human beings on both sides of the HolocaustAND THEN THERE WERE NONE (Walnut): Ten little soldier boys having lots of fun
Agatha Christie has always been a theatrical guilty pleasure, like sitting down with a nice genre book or singing along to top 40
View More AND THEN THERE WERE NONE (Walnut): Ten little soldier boys having lots of funBASKERVILLE (McCarter): An entertaining trip to Dartmoor
Ken Ludwig taps literature’s most iconic detective with BASKERVILLE, a funny, inventive, entertaining take on Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Hound of the Baskervilles.”
View More BASKERVILLE (McCarter): An entertaining trip to DartmoorLAFFERTY’S WAKE (Society Hill Playhouse): “For God’s sake, you got to laugh a little!”
Society Hill Playhouse celebrates St. Patrick’s Day with a seasonal revival of Susan Turlish’s musical-comedy send-up of the Irish,
View More LAFFERTY’S WAKE (Society Hill Playhouse): “For God’s sake, you got to laugh a little!”JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (People’s Light): A playful retelling for all ages
Scotland’s Visible Fictions brings a child-friendly version of the Greek myth of JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS, adapted by Robert Forrest, to People’s Light & Theatre Company
View More JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (People’s Light): A playful retelling for all agesMACBETH (Arden): Bloody bold and resolute [critical mass review #1]
Burns maintains the energy and pacing of his best work for Quintessence and takes full advantage of the Arden’s high production values to create an exuberant and understandable version of Shakespeare’s masterpiece.
View More MACBETH (Arden): Bloody bold and resolute [critical mass review #1]