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…
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Inis 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 PROJECTInterAct’s THE HOW AND THE WHY is Well Written and Full of Ideas
“It’s yours, you created it, you gave birth to it. Don’t throw it away because you’re frightened of the implications.” Zelda (Janis Dardaris), an award-winning…
View More InterAct’s THE HOW AND THE WHY is Well Written and Full of IdeasTracy Letts’s AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY…A Modern Great at the Arden
AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY bookends with characters quoting T. S. Elliot’s “The Hollow Men.” “Life is very long,” begins Beverly Weston (David Howey), the alcoholic patriarch…
View More Tracy Letts’s AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY…A Modern Great at the ArdenA Voyage of Wonder: WHaLE OPTICS at the Live Arts
“Meditation and water are wedded forever” —Herman Melville, Moby Dick For last year’s Live Arts Festival, playwright Thaddeus Phillips took us on a trip to…
View More A Voyage of Wonder: WHaLE OPTICS at the Live ArtsMadhouse Theater Company’s PLAYING LENI is Spellbinding
More than any other historical figure and his followers, Hitler and the Nazis are shorthand for evil. Few people emerge from the close contact with…
View More Madhouse Theater Company’s PLAYING LENI is SpellbindingOld People and Theater (VIGIL at Lantern)
I began to attend Philadelphia theater in earnest about a decade ago, in my early mid-twenties. Consistently, my companion and I would be the youngest…
View More Old People and Theater (VIGIL at Lantern)Commedia, Terrorism, and Royalty: Inis Nua’s DUBLIN BY LAMPLIGHT
Cast members from Inis Nua Theatre’s DUBLIN BY LAMPLIGHT, playing in Philadelphia PA through May 14. The Royal Wedding and the death of international terrorist…
View More Commedia, Terrorism, and Royalty: Inis Nua’s DUBLIN BY LAMPLIGHTAmaryllis Theatre Company Brings an Excelente LYDIA to the Adrienne
As Octavio Solis’s sublimely crafted play Lydia opens, the Mexican American Flores family is struggling to cope with the aftermath of a terrible car accident.…
View More Amaryllis Theatre Company Brings an Excelente LYDIA to the AdrienneTwo Jews Walk Into A War at InterAct
At the Adrienne last Thursday night, the show started before the curtain went up: first there was the woman who got a verbal spanking from…
View More Two Jews Walk Into A War at InterActBleak Complexity: SPEAKING IN TONGUES at the Walnut’s Independence on 3
As SPEAKING IN TONGUES opens, two couples are about to cheat on their partners. Their dialog develops in unison; each pairing uttering the same lines.…
View More Bleak Complexity: SPEAKING IN TONGUES at the Walnut’s Independence on 3One Woman, Many Voices: LET ME DOWN EASY at PTC
There are many voices in this nation’s health care debate, and Anna Deveare Smith could probably act out them all. In LET ME DOWN EASY,…
View More One Woman, Many Voices: LET ME DOWN EASY at PTCBCKSEET Productions’ Losing the Shore
You never expect lighthearted comedy when going to a show by BCKSEET Productions. Argentine prison dramas, biting Edward Albee plays, and a Christmas show depicting Santa…
View More BCKSEET Productions’ Losing the ShoreIt’s The End of the World As We Knew It: New City’s PTERODACTYLS at the Adrienne
PTERODACTYLS takes place in a sterile Main Line living room (set design Cory Palmer), a fitting setting for a work reminiscent of Victorian drawing room…
View More It’s The End of the World As We Knew It: New City’s PTERODACTYLS at the AdrienneTHE CRUCIBLE (Tri-County Performing Arts Center)
Like many people, I was introduced to THE CRUCIBLE in a high school English class. The teacher dutifully told us that it was a play…
View More THE CRUCIBLE (Tri-County Performing Arts Center)LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE by Theatre Exile at Plays and Players
Playwright Martin McDonagh delivers a powerful political message in the most palatable of pills
View More LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE by Theatre Exile at Plays and Players