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    TITANIC (Fulton Theater): 60-second review

    Featuring a large cast of fantastic singers, Fulton Theater’s production of Titanic is worth the drive to Lancaster. Telling the story of the infamous ocean…

    Joshua Herren May 20, 2023 No Comments
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  • Arts Visual

    OF GOD AND COUNTRY (PMA): A dilettante at large review

    The DAL is having quite a week! First the Orchestra and then the Museum: Philadelphia’s finest institutions providing much enjoyment. Philadelphia Museum of Art has…

    Toby Zinman May 20, 2023 1 Comment
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  • Music

    THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA’S GREAT STAGES GALA: A Dilettante at Large review

    DAL is pleased to report that this gala was more fun than glam. Oh, there was the occasional gown and a sprinkling of black ties,…

    Toby Zinman May 18, 2023 No Comments
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  • Theater

    A Fright of a Night: Interview with Michael Biren of Beetlejuice

    Michael Biren always thought it would be possible to perform at the Academy of Music. The Cherry Hill, NJ native was exposed to the arts…

    Debra Danese May 17, 2023 No Comments
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  • Theater

    FAT HAM + ABANDON: Considering James Ijames’s new and newer work

    James Ijames won the Pulitzer Prize for Fat Ham, which is now running on Broadway; his even newer play, Abandon, has just opened at Theatre Exile. 

    Toby Zinman May 8, 2023 1 Comment
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Reviews Theater

TITANIC (Fulton Theater): 60-second review

Joshua Herren May 20, 2023 No Comments

Featuring a large cast of fantastic singers, Fulton Theater’s production of Titanic is worth the drive to Lancaster. Telling the story of the infamous ocean…

View More TITANIC (Fulton Theater): 60-second review
Arts Visual

OF GOD AND COUNTRY (PMA): A dilettante at large review

Toby Zinman May 20, 2023 1 Comment

The DAL is having quite a week! First the Orchestra and then the Museum: Philadelphia’s finest institutions providing much enjoyment. Philadelphia Museum of Art has…

View More OF GOD AND COUNTRY (PMA): A dilettante at large review
Music

THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA’S GREAT STAGES GALA: A Dilettante at Large review

Toby Zinman May 18, 2023 No Comments

DAL is pleased to report that this gala was more fun than glam. Oh, there was the occasional gown and a sprinkling of black ties,…

View More THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA’S GREAT STAGES GALA: A Dilettante at Large review
Theater

A Fright of a Night: Interview with Michael Biren of Beetlejuice

Debra Danese May 17, 2023 No Comments

Michael Biren always thought it would be possible to perform at the Academy of Music. The Cherry Hill, NJ native was exposed to the arts…

View More A Fright of a Night: Interview with Michael Biren of Beetlejuice
Theater

FAT HAM + ABANDON: Considering James Ijames’s new and newer work

Toby Zinman May 8, 2023 1 Comment

James Ijames won the Pulitzer Prize for Fat Ham, which is now running on Broadway; his even newer play, Abandon, has just opened at Theatre Exile. 

View More FAT HAM + ABANDON: Considering James Ijames’s new and newer work
Reviews Theater

GALILEE (Azuka): A tale from down under

Toby Zinman May 7, 2023 No Comments

A small town’s main business—tourism— dries up and bit by bit small businesses follow. 

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Reviews Theater

THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (1812): Fall-off-your-chair hilarity

Toby Zinman May 6, 2023 No Comments

This is not the admiring smirk or a contemptuous Ha-ha!, but fall-off-your-chair, eye-mopping hilarity.

View More THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (1812): Fall-off-your-chair hilarity
Music

La Bohème (Opera Philadelphia): Time’s arrow

Michael Fisher May 1, 2023 No Comments

Of Yuval Sharon’s reverse-chronology retelling of Puccini’s La Bohème, the Wall Street Journal says, “It’s not just a gimmick—it works.” Of course, if you have…

View More La Bohème (Opera Philadelphia): Time’s arrow
Music

DON GIOVANNI (AVA): A dilettante at large review

Toby Zinman May 1, 2023 No Comments

Mozart’s Don Giovanni is the greatest opera ever written. Don’t take my word for it—what do I know, I’m a dilettante—but that was the opinion…

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Theater

[NYC] PRIMA FACIE (John Golden Theater): Ordeal by theater

Toby Zinman April 26, 2023 No Comments

Take the trigger warnings seriously: This is ordeal by theater.

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Theater

He’s Just a Man: Interview with Kodiak Thompson in Jesus Christ Superstar

Debra Danese April 23, 2023 No Comments

Temple grad Kodiak Thompson returns to Philadelphia with the touring production of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

View More He’s Just a Man: Interview with Kodiak Thompson in Jesus Christ Superstar
Theater

PLUM BUN (EgoPo): Passing on history

Toby Zinman April 23, 2023 4 Comments

This remarkable adaptation of a century-old novel concludes EgoPo’s Harlem Renaissance season

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Theater

The Art of Stepping: Interview with Valencia Springer of Step Afrika!

Debra Danese April 22, 2023 No Comments

Valenica Odeyka Emonni Springer has been stepping since childhood. The Brooklyn native got her start in the dance style through her mom, and is now…

View More The Art of Stepping: Interview with Valencia Springer of Step Afrika!
Music Reviews

Perry, Schumann, and Mahler (Curtis Symphony Orchestra): Season-closing performance

Michael Fisher April 18, 2023 1 Comment

Kurt Vonnegut once wrote that there are two types of writers. And because he’s Kurt Vonnegut, he gave them both silly names. First you’ve got…

View More Perry, Schumann, and Mahler (Curtis Symphony Orchestra): Season-closing performance
Reviews Theater

[NYC] CAMELOT (Lincoln Center): Back to the round table

Toby Zinman April 18, 2023 No Comments

Sometimes cynical, ultra-cool  critical disdain—much in evidence these days— just won’t do. I loved this show; it’s filled with wonderful songs and wonderful singers, an…

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Reviews Theater

LADY DAY AT EMERSON’S BAR & GRILL (PTC): A living portrait and an evening of wonderful songs

Toby Zinman April 14, 2023 No Comments

At 15th & Bainbridge—only a few blocks from Philadelphia Theatre Company’s stage at Broad & Lombard—there stood a legendary dive bar called Emerson’s. Jazz greats—John…

View More LADY DAY AT EMERSON’S BAR & GRILL (PTC): A living portrait and an evening of wonderful songs
Theater

ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE (Walnut Street): A wackadoodle of a show

Toby Zinman April 11, 2023 No Comments

What a wackadoodle of a show! Part party, part pop musical, the Walnut Street Theatre’s production of Jimmy Buffett’s hit is an enjoyable evening, but…

View More ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE (Walnut Street): A wackadoodle of a show
Theater

RADIO GOLF (Arden): Hearts on one side, heads on the other

Kathryn Osenlund April 6, 2023 No Comments

A crippling honesty and family ties mark August Wilson’s Radio Golf, a play that flows with humor along with sharply incisive dialogue and a clever story line.

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Reviews Theater

[NYC] SWEENEY TODD (Lunt-Fontanne): How to review a show that is just about perfect?

Toby Zinman April 6, 2023 No Comments

I should have such a problem all the time: how to review a show that is just about perfect. 

View More [NYC] SWEENEY TODD (Lunt-Fontanne): How to review a show that is just about perfect?
Reviews Theater

JOHNNY DEPP: A RETROSPECTIVE ON LATE STAGE CAPITALISM (Jenna Kuerzi): A coin-tossing good time

Frank Schierloh April 2, 2023 No Comments

Funny, eye opening, and sometimes maddening in its acknowledgement of how our society worships celebrities. 

View More JOHNNY DEPP: A RETROSPECTIVE ON LATE STAGE CAPITALISM (Jenna Kuerzi): A coin-tossing good time

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