The term ‘found footage’ is typically reserved for horror, where it describes a specific filmmaking style. With Jane, the stunning documentary about conservationist, Jane Goodall,…
View More JANE (dir. Brett Morgen): Philadelphia Film Festival review
I, Tonya wants to be about love.
View More I, TONYA (dir. Craig Gillespie): Philadelphia Film Festival review
Dan Scully considers I, Tonya; Thoroughbreds, and The Villianness.
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What is most impressive about Breathe is its unimpressiveness. And that is a sincere compliment.
View More BREATHE (dir. Andy Serkis): Philadelphia Film Festival review
The sterile corporate-speak of modern business pervades Aaron Loeb’s darkly comic contemporary play
View More IDEATION (Theatre Exile): How to succeed in business
This is one of those truth-is-stranger-than-fiction moments. BUYER AND CELLAR is about Barbra Streisand’s basement.
View More BUYER & CELLAR (1812 Productions): The way we are
An excellent play well done.
View More LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (Quintessence): Love and desire and hate
If you only visit one art show this month, make it Bucks County’s Kings Oaks Farm in Newtown
View More Art at Kings Oaks: A weeklong pop-up exhibit
It is our job as artists to create environments for people to see things differently. Pig Iron did that.
Sketches by Chuck Schultz.
View More A PERIOD OF ANIMATE EXISTENCE (Pig Iron): Creating an environment for thought
Seeing KINKY BOOTS every couple of years turns out to be a semi-good idea
View More KINKY BOOTS (national tour at the Academy of Music): Everybody say yeah
Ralph Malachowski see’s the Pride Night performance of Sam Shepard’s SIMPATICO.
View More SIMPATICO (McCarter Theatre Center): A Red Orchid Theatre’s production comes to Princeton
Sondheim’s classic musical in a new production is directed by Frank Ferrante.
View More A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM (Walnut): A funny thing is happening now at the Walnut
CABARET has taken on a new level of relevance, but Matthew Decker’s re-creation of Sam Mendes’ famous production remains stuck in the past.
View More CABARET (Arden): Glücklich zu sehen?
This bountiful menu of music had something for every taste
View More After the O17: A reflection on Opera Philadelphia’s brave endeavor
A worthy anchor of Opera Philadelphia’s inaugural O17 Festival.
View More THE MAGIC FLUTE (Opera Philadelphia): An animated opera in the O17 Festival
Who would want to read their middle school diaries? The members of AntiGravity Theatre Project, that’s who.
View More DEAR DIARY LOL (AntiGravity Theatre): 2017 Fringe review
Talia Mason’s DANCES is a one-woman dance / narrative piece about her Jewish heritage
View More ONION DANCES (Talia Mason): 2017 Fringe review
Let the fun begin!
View More TRIAGE (Bent Antennae): 2017 Fringe review
Carbonell + Gavino give powerful and genuine explorations of motherhood.
View More MUJERES (Evalina Carbonell and Annielille Gavino): 2017 Fringe review
Allendance has again delivered a contemplative take on movement through effortless contact and a fresh atmospheric perspective on the intimate space that is the Iron Factory.
View More THEN THE TAIL (allendance): 2017 Fringe review