Visually, musically, and vocally gorgeous, this is a delectable MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM.
View More What A Lark: The dilettante at large has A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM with Opera PhillyAuthor: Toby Zinman
Barbies Before the Fact: A dilettante at large sees new exhibitions at the PMA
A dilettante at large considers two exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
View More Barbies Before the Fact: A dilettante at large sees new exhibitions at the PMAA dilettante at large considers Philly After Dark at the Athenaeum
A whimsical and educational show combining images of the city by moonlight, gaslight, electric light, fire and lightning.
View More A dilettante at large considers Philly After Dark at the AthenaeumFIDDLER ON THE ROOF (Broadway tour at Academy of Music): An updated Fiddler
The thrill of a big show-biz production and the feeling of authenticity
View More FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (Broadway tour at Academy of Music): An updated FiddlerA dilettante at large reviews NE QUITTEZ PAS (Opera Philadelphia)
What a complicated evening, filled with gorgeous singing and roiled emotions and puzzling theatrics
View More A dilettante at large reviews NE QUITTEZ PAS (Opera Philadelphia)HAPGOOD (Lantern): Rising to the challenge of a gleefully complicated spy story
Hapgood is not just a spy story, it’s also a physics story
View More HAPGOOD (Lantern): Rising to the challenge of a gleefully complicated spy storyTHE ACCOUNTANT (Trey Lyford): 2018 Fringe review
Do the math. That’s what accountants do, right? The show is 75 minutes long. I looked at my watch about ten times, from which we…
View More THE ACCOUNTANT (Trey Lyford): 2018 Fringe reviewECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): 2018 Fringe review
ECCENTRICITIES is lush, loquacious and very typical Tennessee Williams: lonely, sex-starved women, men struggling against overbearing mothers, desperation everywhere.
View More ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): 2018 Fringe reviewMARY ROSE (Philadelphia Artists’ Collective): 2018 Fringe review
However crammed your Fringe calendar may be, don’t miss this one.
View More MARY ROSE (Philadelphia Artists’ Collective): 2018 Fringe reviewA Dilettante at Large reviews two new shows at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Toby Zinman considers “Rachel Rose: Wil-o-Wisp/The Future Fields Commission” and “Biting Wit and Brazen Folly: British Satirical Prints, 1780s–1830s”
View More A Dilettante at Large reviews two new shows at the Philadelphia Museum of ArtA Dilettante at Large: THE RESTAURANT SCHOOL AT WALNUT HILL COLLEGE
All this dilettanting around town can make a critic hungry
View More A Dilettante at Large: THE RESTAURANT SCHOOL AT WALNUT HILL COLLEGEOUR FEW AND EVIL DAYS (Inis Nua): Tantalizing ambiguity
This is difficult review to write since almost anything I’d say would be a spoiler. I can say this much: Go see it.
View More OUR FEW AND EVIL DAYS (Inis Nua): Tantalizing ambiguityA Dilettante at Large goes to Penn Museum
Toby Zinman gives her thoughts on the new Middle East galleries at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
View More A Dilettante at Large goes to Penn MuseumTHE TEMPEST (Lantern): Sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not
Lantern Theater’s production of THE TEMPEST, Shakespeare’s last play, is an enjoyable, modest show, full of comedy and romance and the gentle spirit of human forgiveness.
View More THE TEMPEST (Lantern): Sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt notA dilettante at large: LEONARD BERNSTEIN: THE POWER OF MUSIC (NMAJH)
If you’re a Leonard Bernstein fan, don’t miss the terrific new exhibit at the National Museum of American Jewish History.
View More A dilettante at large: LEONARD BERNSTEIN: THE POWER OF MUSIC (NMAJH)SMALL MOUTH SOUNDS (Ars Nova/PTC): Hmmph
As far as I can tell, this is a satire, although you know you’re on shaky ground when you’re not sure if the play knows it’s a satire.
View More SMALL MOUTH SOUNDS (Ars Nova/PTC): HmmphA dilettante at large: A QUIET PLACE (Curtis Institute of Music)
The Curtis Institute of Music and Opera Philadelphia’s stunning production Leonard Bernstein’s opera, A Quiet Place, is one of many worldwide celebrations of his centennial;
View More A dilettante at large: A QUIET PLACE (Curtis Institute of Music)A STEADY RAIN (Walnut St): An intense and engrossing cop show
If you’re a fan of TV police procedurals this is the play for you.
View More A STEADY RAIN (Walnut St): An intense and engrossing cop showA dilettante at large: WRITTEN ON SKIN (Opera Philadelphia)
Philadelphia’s premiere drama critic, Toby Zinman knows her theater. Opera, not so much. Here’s her dilettante review of Opera Philadelphia’s WRITTEN ON SKIN.
View More A dilettante at large: WRITTEN ON SKIN (Opera Philadelphia)REALLY (Theatre Exile): Camera obscura
Discomfort is the name of the game here, but to what purpose?
View More REALLY (Theatre Exile): Camera obscura