Philadelphia’s Wilma Theater, one of the city’s leading playhouses, is concluding its 2011/12 season with Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches. The first part of Tony Kushner‘s acclaimed two-part…
View More Angels in America: two parts, two seasons
One of the best things about the annual Philly Fringe festival is the opportunity to see several works of performing arts in one day or evening. I…
View More A Philly theater double header this Saturday
In his essay The Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus compares man’s existence to the figure from Greek mythology, condemned for eternity to push a rock up a…
View More Sisyphus Sings in Silent Joy: Lantern Theater Company’s THE ISLAND
I have a soft spot for the drawing room plays by Oscar Wilde, Somerset Maughan, and the like. With ready wit they provide amusing takedowns…
View More 1812 Productions Weds Mamet in BOSTON MARRIAGE
n HAMLETMACHINE and MEDEAPLAYS, now in seemless production at the space by The Renegade Company, Müller has reassembled classic texts and plot-points into a dislocating new context.
View More HAMLETMACHINE + MEDEAPLAYS = Renegade’s Richly Challenging Work
Author Graham Greene wrote two types of books. His novels (The Power and the Glory, The Quiet American), onto which he staked his literary reputation, and…
View More Theatre Exile’s A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE Entertains
The story of Euripides’s third place finish in the 431 B.C. Athens Dionysia festival is one to warm the hearts of unsung writers everywhere. The great Greek…
View More Two Philadelphia companies take Medea in new directions
“Forget all the laws of optics, which the legend does not recognize” —Anton Chekhov, The Black Monk Attempting to summarize the best modernist short stories…
View More Stirring BLACK MONK Offered Up by Simpatico
Through its nearly twenty-year history, Headlong Dance Theater has been stretching boundaries. Stylistically, the company has incorporated such movement backgrounds as ballet, jazz, Bharata Natyam,…
View More Twenty years of Headlong Dance Theater
“She began dressing, too. Only now, looking at her, Kovrin realised the danger of his position — realised the meaning of the black monk and…
View More Simpatico concludes its Philadelphia season with David Rabe’s THE BLACK MONK
4SW Productions is launching onto the Philadelphia theater scene with a showcase of short comedic plays next Monday in the third-floor space at Plays & Players theater.…
View More Live from Philadelphia… it’s 4SW Live! (FREE show)
The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre opens its 15th Anniversary Season with Twelfth Night. Directed by Artistic Director Carmen Khan, the production promises to be a fun look at this…
View More Twelfth Night at the Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre
Passenger: It’s madness — what sort of an age do we live in? You don’t feel safe anywhere now, only at home… First Passenger: At…
View More New City’s TERRORISM Presents a Sardonic Look at Modern Life
As a lover of theater, beer, and meat-filled pastries, I’ve been excited by the ads and positive buzz about this series from Tiny Dynamite for…
View More A PLAY, A PIE AND A PINT: Three Things We Can All Like
Eugene Ionesco’s absurdest masterpiece The Bald Soprano (“La Cantatrice chauve”) ends as it begins: with an Englishwoman talking about french fried potatoes. Her husband isn’t listening, but this…
View More Philadelphia’s BRAT Productions makes the theater of the absurd even more absurd
Since 2004, Inis Nua Theatre Company has been entertaining Philadelphia audiences with provocative new Irish and British plays, staged at venues around the city. The…
View More Inis Nua Finds a Home with LITTLE GEM
“First dates are stressful,” says the postcard for Matchbox Theatre Projects Valentines Day special,The Playdaters. As we all know, the 100th date can be just…
View More A Valentines Playdate in Philadelphia
I’m writing this on February 4th, on what would be Rosa Parks 99th birthday. Parks herself is represented onstage in Philadelphia tonight, at the end…
View More African American History Month, onstage in Philadelphia
We’ve all met someone like her: the beautiful ex–prom queen with a cutting wit, overconfidence, and the forgivable tendency to say something hopelessly stupid and…
View More Fun for a Night, Hell for a Life: Luna’s Toxically Humorous BACHELORETTE
James Tolbert has decades of experience on stages in Philadelphia and around the country, most recently as the lead in August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come…
View More Interview with James C. Tolbert III