RETURN RETURN DEPARTURE considers the fleeting nature of time and the human compulsion to capture it, and there can be few more poignant examples than an ephemeral dance duet at sunset, videotaped for posterity by the performers themselves.
View More Fringe Festival Takes Flight with Nichole Canuso Dance Company at the APS MuseumCategory: Reviews
A Rare and Satisfying CYMBELINE at Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre
CYMBELINE is one of Shakespeare’s later and lesser-known works, not often performed and hard to classify. Though inspired by legends about an ancient British king…
View More A Rare and Satisfying CYMBELINE at Philadelphia Shakespeare TheatrePlenty of Pulp: THE END OF CIVILIZATION at the Walking Fish
Some of the best entertainments are plot-heavy pulp mysteries: the film Double Indemnity, Raymond Chandler’s stories, Agatha Christie’s plays. With unemployment, serial killing, prostitution, addiction, and…
View More Plenty of Pulp: THE END OF CIVILIZATION at the Walking Fish“Don’t ask me what happened. It’s best not to know!”: A DYBBUK, or Between two worlds
Review of A DYBBUCK from EgoPo Classic Theatre
View More “Don’t ask me what happened. It’s best not to know!”: A DYBBUK, or Between two worldsA Taste of the Fringe in Early Summer: New City Stage Presents Two Sam Shepard Shorts
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival receives hundreds of applications from American drama troupes every year. Philadelphia’s New City Stage Company is in talks to become one…
View More A Taste of the Fringe in Early Summer: New City Stage Presents Two Sam Shepard ShortsSisyphus Sings in Silent Joy: Lantern Theater Company’s THE ISLAND
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 ISLAND1812 Productions Weds Mamet in BOSTON MARRIAGE
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 MARRIAGEHAMLETMACHINE + MEDEAPLAYS = Renegade’s Richly Challenging Work
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 WorkTHE TEMPEST (Curio): Such stuff as dreams are made on
Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will…
View More THE TEMPEST (Curio): Such stuff as dreams are made onTheatre Exile’s A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE Entertains
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 EntertainsPhiladelphia Shakespeare Theatre Triumphs with TITUS ANDRONICUS
Shakespeare’s early revenge tragedy, TITUS ANDRONICUS, is a bloodbath of murder, dismemberment, rape, and cannibalism, which has remained for centuries the Bard’s most maligned work.…
View More Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre Triumphs with TITUS ANDRONICUSStirring BLACK MONK Offered Up by Simpatico
“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 SimpaticoRomeo and Juliet (Lantern Theater Company): Do we need another R&J?
You may ask, “Do we need yet another production of Romeo and Juliet?” The answer is yes we do. This is the Lantern. Next question? The…
View More Romeo and Juliet (Lantern Theater Company): Do we need another R&J?New City’s TERRORISM Presents a Sardonic Look at Modern Life
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 LifeA PLAY, A PIE AND A PINT: Three Things We Can All Like
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 LikeInis Nua Finds a Home with LITTLE GEM
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 GEMFun for a Night, Hell for a Life: Luna’s Toxically Humorous BACHELORETTE
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 BACHELORETTESimpatico’s THE MEEP PROJECT Brings Innovation to All-Ages Theater
THE MEEP PROJECT is a charming collaboration between playwright Ed Swidey and Simpatico Theatre Project. The world premiere development piece (which looked as fully developed as any original production I’ve seen!) employs new methods of storytelling, using movement and sound in place of language.
View More Simpatico’s THE MEEP PROJECT Brings Innovation to All-Ages TheaterFeliz Navidad! UN VIAJE: A CHRISTMAS JOURNEY at Kensington’s Walking Fish Theatre
UN VIAJE—A CHRISTMAS JOURNEY is running at Walking Fish Theatre in Kensington (Philadelphia), PA through December 30. (Photo courtesy of B. Someday Productions at Walking…
View More Feliz Navidad! UN VIAJE: A CHRISTMAS JOURNEY at Kensington’s Walking Fish TheatreA Versatile Acting Showcase in The Renegade Company’s THE AMISH PROJECT
“What happens to a person when they live in a world where you can’t believe anything and the things you don’t want to believe are…
View More A Versatile Acting Showcase in The Renegade Company’s THE AMISH PROJECT