POTUS (Arden): Brash and in your face
Warning: These seven marvelous actors in the all female cast, are not your nice Aunt Sara. Wild and untamed, they’re women without borders. Stepping out…
Warning: These seven marvelous actors in the all female cast, are not your nice Aunt Sara. Wild and untamed, they’re women without borders. Stepping out…
View More POTUS (Arden): Brash and in your faceWhitaker, a Florida native, is touring in the role of Mafala Hatimbi, the Ugandan village chief.
View More Tribal Ties: Lamont J. Whitaker as Mafala Hatimbi in The Book of Mormon74-year-old Susie Wefel is leaving Hedgerow House after 45 years. It’s not a choice she made herself.
View More Home No More: Hedgerow’s last company member must leave Hedgerow HousePhiladelphia native Steve Czarnecki returns home this month in the national tour of Les Misérables. In addition to his role in the ensemble, Czarnecki serves…
View More One Day More/ Part II: Catching up with Les Misérables’ Steve CzarneckiPhilly native Sean Thompson returns to the area with the North American Tour of Funny Girl, arriving at the Academy of Music July 16, 2024.
View More Hello Gorgeous: Sean Thompson returns to Philly in FUNNY GIRLFather Comes Home From The Wars by Suzan-Lori Parks is remarkable in many ways. There’s no denying the appeal that took the audience to its…
View More FATHER COMES HOME FROM THE WARS (Qunitessence): A theatrical odysseyOne of Shakespeare’s greatest hits, his first comedy, The Comedy of Errors, is playing at the Lantern Theater Company until June 16. Twins, shipwreck, mistaken…
View More THE COMEDY OF ERRORS (Lantern): Twins, shipwreck, mistaken identity, romance gone awryNow this is what a collective can do: a huge cast all so attuned to each others’ idiosyncrasies that they might as well be the household they are portraying.
View More CHILDREN OF THE SUN (PAC): A knockout contemporary production of a rarely seen classicSouth Camden Theatre Company’s latest production of James Ijames’s wildly moving play, Kill Move Paradise, is terrific
View More KILL MOVE PARADISE (South Camden Theatre): 60-second reviewAlthough the defense of gay life and the LGBTQ+ community is in a different place now, I imagine for many in the audience, Torch Song still sings.
View More TORCH SONG (1812 Productions): Songs from another timewith so many opportunities to put a political foot wrong, MADAME BUTTERFLY is a minefield. Opera Philadelphia has sidestepped the obvious dangers.
View More MADAME BUTTERFLY (Opera Philly): A dilettante at large reviewMark Morris and musical collaborator Ethan Iverson pay homage to the chart-topping songs of Burt Bacharach.
View More The Look of Love: Mark Morris’s Tribute to the late Burt BacharachWhat with the solar eclipse and an earthquake, we—sophisticated, scientific, blasé—are in a perfect position to imagine what ancient, primitive people must have thought and felt when the ground shook and the lights went out.
View More HADESTOWN (National Tour): To hell and backIn what other walks of musical life would a piece composed more than seventy years ago by a composer born more than one hundred years ago constitute new music?
View More Intersection (Curtis New Music Ensemble): “New music” from the rebranded ensembleDouble, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Cool it with a baboon’s blood, then the charm is firm and good. Macbeth, the…
View More MACBETH (Quintessence): Onstage magicA tale about cotton, Civil War, commodities, finance, and wealth told through the story of three brothers and the company they found.
View More THE LEHMAN TRILOGY (Arden): A play in three actsIf Art is an exploration of self in front of an audience, what is an exploration of self without an audience?
View More Exploring Self With and Without an Audience: ART HOE: A NEW ERAPenn grad Nick Silverio returns to Philadelphia in the national tour of Disney’s FROZEN
View More Whiteout: Interview with Nick Silverio from Disney’s Frozen