John Patrick Shanley’s rom-com charmer is a play about feelings, expressed with an Irish lilt by two generations of neighbors in the Emerald Isle
View More OUTSIDE MULLINGAR (PTC): Land, loss, and love in rural IrelandCategory: Reviews
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS (Blend Theatrics): A sweet treat for the season
Holiday magic is alive and well at the Laurie Beechman Cabaret Theater.
View More HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS (Blend Theatrics): A sweet treat for the seasonKISS ME, KATE (Renaissance Music Theatre): Tom, Dick, or Harry would all call this a flop
KISS ME, KATE should bring comedy, heart, big production numbers, and a classic big finale. But Renaissance Music Theatre’s production is a few weeks of…
View More KISS ME, KATE (Renaissance Music Theatre): Tom, Dick, or Harry would all call this a flopARTHUR AND THE TALE OF THE RED DRAGON: A MUSICAL PANTO (People’s Light): Coming of age in the Middle Ages
The family friendly holiday panto takes a wacky look at the growing pains of the future King Arthur as he faces the challenges of life, learning, and leadership.
View More ARTHUR AND THE TALE OF THE RED DRAGON: A MUSICAL PANTO (People’s Light): Coming of age in the Middle AgesQED (Lantern) No doctorate in theoretical physics is required to enjoy this production
But you don’t have to be an egghead to enjoy this play. It’s a great show for non-physicists, a category that includes a whole lot of us.
View More QED (Lantern) No doctorate in theoretical physics is required to enjoy this productionQED (Lantern): A glowing tribute to a brilliant man
Peter DeLaurier reprises his role as physicist Richard Feynman in Lantern Theater Company’s remount of its 2006 hit.
View More QED (Lantern): A glowing tribute to a brilliant manTHE (CURIOUS CASE OF THE) WATSON INTELLIGENCE (Azuka): Do we all need a Watson in our lives
In a time-bending script that requires each of the actors to play multiple roles across the last century or so, “Watson”, played in all his guises by Griffin Stanton-Ameisen, is the force that ties them all together.
View More THE (CURIOUS CASE OF THE) WATSON INTELLIGENCE (Azuka): Do we all need a Watson in our livesMARY POPPINS (Walnut): Flying between lightness and gravitas
In doing MARY POPPINS, a director has to decide between approaches: light and fantastical like the movie or darker like the book.
View More MARY POPPINS (Walnut): Flying between lightness and gravitasFall Series (BalletX): Darkness on the edge of ballet
BalletX’s Fall Series features three disparate dances united by evocative lighting schemes and the genre-stretching beauty of movement which characterizes the company.
View More Fall Series (BalletX): Darkness on the edge of balletJUG-BABY: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY (Transmissions Theatre): A jar of surprises
There is magic and wonder in the world, and not the cheap kind from childhood fairy tales, but the hard earned kind from adults who speak in their own true voices and dare to tell us how we’re all put together.
View More JUG-BABY: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY (Transmissions Theatre): A jar of surprisesTHE MATTER OF FRANK SCHAEFER (Curio): Go and do likewise
Curio personalizes a national news story: THE MATTER OF FRANK SCHAEFER, a Methodist priest defrocked for officiating his son’s same sex wedding.
View More THE MATTER OF FRANK SCHAEFER (Curio): Go and do likewiseGREEN PORNO (Isabella Rossellini): Sex and celebrity in the service of a serious message
It’s no secret that sex and celebrity sell, so what better use for those ever-reliable marketing commodities than in the service of a serious message?…
View More GREEN PORNO (Isabella Rossellini): Sex and celebrity in the service of a serious messageTIL DIVORCE DO US PART: THE MUSICAL (Society Hill Playhouse): The annoying ex you never wanted to see
This 90-minute cabaret featuring of three bitter divorced women and a newspaper pen pal crams heartless bubble gum jingles and cheap laughs into the plot of a confused Lifetime special.
View More TIL DIVORCE DO US PART: THE MUSICAL (Society Hill Playhouse): The annoying ex you never wanted to seeA STREETCAR NAMED DURANG (IRC): 60-second review
High-energy hilarity fills L’Étage as the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium remounts its 2008 Fringe hit, a trio of one-act parodies by Christopher Durang.
View More A STREETCAR NAMED DURANG (IRC): 60-second reviewBIG LOVE (Villanova): 60-second review
Based upon a 2,500-year-old classical Greek play, BIG LOVE tells the story of 50 brides who show up at an Italian mansion, fleeing their 50 cousins/potential husbands.
View More BIG LOVE (Villanova): 60-second reviewTHE (CURIOUS CASE OF THE) WATSON INTELLIGENCE (Azuka): Connecting with audience
A thoroughly entertaining, beautifully staged exploration of trust, love, relationships, entanglement, dependency and technology and intimacy.
View More THE (CURIOUS CASE OF THE) WATSON INTELLIGENCE (Azuka): Connecting with audienceBLOOD WEDDING (PAC/MPiRP): A symbiotic relationship between the arts and education
Love, betrayal, vengeance, and death are the themes of Federico García Lorca’s Spanish Symbolist tragedy, BLOOD WEDDING.
View More BLOOD WEDDING (PAC/MPiRP): A symbiotic relationship between the arts and education[NYC] STICKS AND BONES (The New Group): A revival with a local connection is attracting attention in New York
STICKS AND BONES vents Vietnam era fury against a war that sent an endless stream of young men home damaged or in body bags.
View More [NYC] STICKS AND BONES (The New Group): A revival with a local connection is attracting attention in New YorkCAUGHT (InterAct): On the nature of art and truth
When artful deceptions permeate an artist’s life, it casts doubt on everything we believe but never really knew.
View More CAUGHT (InterAct): On the nature of art and truthRED SPEEDO (Theatre Exile): A dive into the waters of amorality
“We all do things that are sorta good, and things that are sorta not so good.” In RED SPEEDO, each character is capable of doing those things that are sorta not so good.
View More RED SPEEDO (Theatre Exile): A dive into the waters of amorality