In GOD OF CARNAGE, French playwright Yasmina Reza’s 90-minute award-winning black comedy, it doesn’t take long to demonstrate the old adage that the apple doesn’t…
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That’s Just Like Your Opinion, Man: RAW ONION REVIVAL (IRC) actors become their own critics
Every actor has experienced theater critics who got things a little wrong. Here’s their chance to peel their own onion.
View More That’s Just Like Your Opinion, Man: RAW ONION REVIVAL (IRC) actors become their own criticsBILOXI BLUES (People’s Light): Coming of age in WWII
Though entertaining as a comedy, BILOXI BLUES contains an important message about fighting “the good war” abroad, while many struggles against injustice remain on the home front.
View More BILOXI BLUES (People’s Light): Coming of age in WWIITHE THREE MUSKETEERS (Quintessence): Swordplay and horseplay combine in a breezy adaptation
As always with an Alexander Burns production, imagery is rife, props are creative, and jokes come as much from sight gags as from dialogue.
View More THE THREE MUSKETEERS (Quintessence): Swordplay and horseplay combine in a breezy adaptationCORIOLANUS (SHAKESPEARE ROULETTE) (Reject): Not your average tragedy
This chaotic opus reaches Monty Python levels of absurdity one would never associate with Shakespeare’s own overlooked tragedy reject.
View More CORIOLANUS (SHAKESPEARE ROULETTE) (Reject): Not your average tragedyThaddeus Phillips Brings the Drug Trade to FringeArts: Interview with the creative mind behind Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental
The Incredibly Dangerous Astonishing Lucrative and Potentially TRUE Adventures of Barry Seal comes to FringeArts May 14–16, 2015. We interview creator Thaddeus Phillips.
View More Thaddeus Phillips Brings the Drug Trade to FringeArts: Interview with the creative mind behind Lucidity Suitcase IntercontinentalBECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE (DTC): A child and her dog steal a charming musical
It’s an old show biz maxim, and true, that an adult cannot expect full attention if he or she is working on stage with a dog or a child.
View More BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE (DTC): A child and her dog steal a charming musicalReject Shakespeare: New theater company presents an impromptu CORIOLANUS with a drinking game
Reject Theatre Project launches this week with an inventive take on Shakespeare’s CORIOLANUS courtesy of Lesley Berkowitz.
View More Reject Shakespeare: New theater company presents an impromptu CORIOLANUS with a drinking gameJEFFREY DAHMER (BrainSpunk): A chilling conversation with a serial killer
BrainSpunk Theater’s premiere full-stage production will keep you spellbound, stunned, and sickened
View More JEFFREY DAHMER (BrainSpunk): A chilling conversation with a serial killerNOW NOW OH NOW (Rude Mechanicals): Role-playing and improv combine
The idea of combining improv with role-playing works very well since both rely on improvisation within certain parameters and they’re also both just a lot of fun.
View More NOW NOW OH NOW (Rude Mechanicals): Role-playing and improv combineTHE SUBMISSION (Quince): Things we dare not even think about
THE SUBMISSION revels in its unique brand of pot stirring, inflammatory, back and forth that has the characters talk openly and passionately about things most people seem reluctant to even think of—racism and homophobia.
View More THE SUBMISSION (Quince): Things we dare not even think aboutIN THE BLOOD (Theatre Horizon): Social satire in the service of compassion
Suzan-Lori Parks’ post-modern re-envisioning of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter addresses the theme of destiny, the tragedy of poverty, and the societal need for compassion in a provocative in-your-face production
View More IN THE BLOOD (Theatre Horizon): Social satire in the service of compassionGROUCHO: A LIFE IN REVUE (ActorsNET): There’s no such thing as a sanity clause
Off stage, David Newhouse looks nothing like Groucho Marx. In makeup, Newhouse’s transformation is astounding.
View More GROUCHO: A LIFE IN REVUE (ActorsNET): There’s no such thing as a sanity clauseWHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF (Exile): A tour-de-force production of an American classic
The iconic three-act, three-hour marathon of marital warfare eviscerates the myth of the American family, revealing the drama and devastation behind the façade of our societal expectations
View More WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF (Exile): A tour-de-force production of an American classicTO THE MOON (1812 Productions): An homage to The Great One, who was not so great after all
Whether you were a fan of The Honeymooners, or have never seen more than a clip on YouTube, this homage to The Great One reminds us of what comedy used to be like.
View More TO THE MOON (1812 Productions): An homage to The Great One, who was not so great after allTHE THREEPENNY OPERA (Villanova): Brecht played louder than the music
Republished by kind permission from Neals Paper. Kurt Weill’s insistent tingel-tangel score for THE THREEPENNY OPERA pervades the Vasey Hall stage, with horns and drum pumping…
View More THE THREEPENNY OPERA (Villanova): Brecht played louder than the musicTHE RAPE OF LUCRECE (Philadelphia Artists’ Collective): 60-second review
Dan Hodge’s one-man performance of Shakespeare’s poem RAPE OF LUCRECE is back! And it is not to be missed (again).
View More THE RAPE OF LUCRECE (Philadelphia Artists’ Collective): 60-second reviewSHADOW OF A GUNMAN (Irish Heritage Theatre): My great-grandfather—the shadow-less gunman
A tragic play gives this Irish American writer a newfound appreciation for his Irish heritage.
View More SHADOW OF A GUNMAN (Irish Heritage Theatre): My great-grandfather—the shadow-less gunmanA Theologian and the Nazis: Interview with Mary Ruth Clarke, playwright of BONHOEFFER’S COST (Beacon Theatre Productions)
We spoke to Mary Ruth Clarke her thought-provoking play based on an extraordinary German theologian who worked for the anti-Nazi resistance.
View More A Theologian and the Nazis: Interview with Mary Ruth Clarke, playwright of BONHOEFFER’S COST (Beacon Theatre Productions)THE JUNGLE BOOK (Arden): Merging morals with make-believe
Based on British author Rudyard Kipling’s series of exotic children’s stories inspired by his childhood in India, THE JUNGLE BOOK is now an engaging family play, celebrating its world premiere at Arden Children’s Theatre.
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