Allens Lane Theater company, directed by Mariangela Saavedra offers an evening of community fun with I HATE HAMLET, a lighthearted comedy about theater’s favorite topic: theater. The piece was written…
Underbite Theatre Company handles a tough topic wiith searing insight and sensitivity.
The lights show a bare stage; the set is two dilapidated buildings with scaffolding. The curtains intermittently change from day to night with a transient light. The place is Verona,…
1776 will make you laugh, might even make you cry, and will most certainly be more enjoyable than the lectures of your middle school history teachers.
A rocking, irreverent look at the birth of our nation wrought with lively, believable characters.
The golden age of Hollywood. Bruce Graham certainly knew how to choose a snazzy setting when he wrote SOMETHING INTANGIBLE,
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Without Peer: The Cherry Street Pier opening is an unqualified success An anticipated cultural attraction opens along the Delaware River. 
An Aerialist Brazilian: Danila Bim discusses her work with Cirque du Soleil’s VOLTA Danila Bim’s job is literally hair-raising! 
IRVING BERLIN’S HOLIDAY INN (Walnut Street Theatre): Longing for a time that never was IRVING BERLIN’S HOLIDAY INN takes us back to a kinder, gentler time when people could burst into song for no reason whatsoever. 
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR (IRC): Corruption! A production that forefronts Gogol’s surprising, desperate, hypnotizing dialogue. Illustration by Mike Jackson. 
Musical in Sketch: LOVE NEVER DIES (Phantom of the Opera 2) Sketches of the Phantom of the Opera sequel. 
“What’s really interesting to me is that in just a few years since “Standing on Ceremony” came out, some of the pieces are already ‘period pieces.’ There is, for instance, one piece about two women flying from California to Iowa because marriage is legal in Iowa but not California (it was while Proposition 8 was still making its way through the courts). And the two women are saying things like, ‘Can you believe we live in California and have to fly to Iowa to get married?’ Well that, of course, is no longer the case. So in a way it’s a primer on recent history and an indication of how quickly things change!” more…
