Remembering Philadelphia theater history through the eyes of a venerable theater reviewer.

Naomi Orwin asks: Would a woman have envisioned a different Nora? A different Torvald?

Lucas Hnath takes up Nora’s story fifteen years after the events of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play.

A timelessly relevant damnation of our human falsehoods is also an au courant commentary on sexism.

Relevant themes and ideas rarely seen on an opera stage

The simple tricks of the stage awe an audience of CGI-era children, showing that even something as normal as friendship can be magic.

Dito van Reigersberg in a new drag persona steals the spotlight in this riotuous, fierce production.

This weekend, while the cheese-steak crowd is piling into Wildwood, sophisticated Philadelphians go on their annual pilgrimage to Cape May to experience the latest program of The Summer Club.

Visually beautiful and compelling in its coherence, 36 VIEWS weaves these intellectual concepts on the uncertainty of art and life with a wholly original style.

A superb cast and creative artistic design bring the story of traumatic loss and joyful renewal to life in the haunting musical adaptation of a Victorian classic.

The production keeps audience members of all ages laughing with outrageous and suggestive songs by Jennifer Childs and Christopher Colucci.

It’s been a meeting of dancer-choreographer minds, bodies and private worlds of dancer-choreographers Meredith Rainey and Tania Isaac.

A dichotomy of delight and disgust makes this production such a treat—a feast with many courses, each richly flavored and deeply textured.

A new play by Bruce Graham considers the sadness that often underlies comedy and the need to adapt to changing styles and the struggles of life.

Interview with Christopher Colucci about the making of a holiday

This year’s installment of the annual politically-incorrect political comedy skewers the presidential candidates and brings some welcome laughs to a troubled week

An exciting multi-media collaboration reflects the operatic life and times of Andy Warhol and the Pop Sixties.

Excerpted from NealsPaper.com by kind permission. Stephen Sondheim’s musical PASSION comes to a pivotal point at which a young soldier, Giorgio (Ben Michael), suddenly becomes deeply enamored of the homely, lonely, Fosca (Liz Filios). It…

There’s little inherent humor in a guy needing a kidney, but evidently no one told that to Michael Hollinger.

People’s Light & Theatre Company pairs Itamar Moses’s uber-witty historical farce BACH AT LEIPZIG with the zaniness of director Pete Pryor in a hilarious, intelligent production.