The company has gone through drastic changes since last season, some of which may have come with sorrow. Still they never stopped their devotion to ballet and to the Philadelphia art community.
View More RE/ACTION (Pennsylvania Ballet): Brilliant ballet by divine dancers
A remarkable play navigating the deep waters of philosophy and the shallow waters of adults wearing animal costumes.
View More PEACEABLE KINGDOM (Orbiter 3): Can we live in peace?
A provocative and dismaying story, conveyed through complex characters rather than through statistics and theories
View More BUZZER (Theatre Exile): We wouldn’t come here if we didn’t live here
Pianist Inon Barnatan stepped in for an ailing colleague, offering an exquisite and inventive recital that explored musical variations.
View More Inon Barnatan in recital (Philadelphia Chamber Music Society): Variation as the theme
It feels like when I’ve rowed out to the middle of a lake alone on a cloudy-still day and suddenly I realize I’m in the middle of the lake.
View More SHUTTLEFISH (Eva Steinmetz): In the middle of the lake
I feel like I know the value of experimental theater thanks to the folks at Target Margin.
View More [NYC] MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA (Target Margin Theater): Getting closer to O’Neill
PAC gives the Jacobin the veneer of a mid-20th century hard-boiler. Sketches by Chuck Schultz.
View More THE WHITE DEVIL (PAC): A bloody good thriller
A meta take on Flaubert’s classic.
View More THE MASSIVE TRAGEDY OF MADAME BOVARY (Curio): Not your high school English class
Playwright James Ijames offers a searing examination of the commodification of black experience.
View More WHITE (Theatre Horizon): Representation matters
Though different in color and mood, all three pieces are entertaining and intellectual.
View More SPRING SERIES 2017 (BalletX): Intellectual and intriguing
For the last program of the 2016-2017 season, NextMove Dance brings in Aspen Santa Fe Ballet to the Prince Theater, May 3-7.
View More ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET (NextMove Dance): Flawless and vibrant
A visceral, exquisitely written, three-person anxiety attack
View More SWALLOW (Inis Nua): This Scottish play is a spot on reflection of America right now
Opera Philadelphia’s new co-production of Mozart’s MARRIAGE OF FIGARO is fast, lively and a wonderful way to be introduced to opera.
View More THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO (Opera Philadelphia): Mozart at the Academy of Music
A reality that we need to face, think about, and talk about.
View More SANCTUARY (KUN-YANG LIN/DANCERS): Sanctuary for those who know pain
A sense of familiarity permeates THE PRISONER OF ZENDA, Matt Tallman’s adaptation of Anthony Hope’s novel of intrigue, adventure, and mistaken identity
View More THE PRISONER OF ZENDA (Hedgerow Theatre): 60-second review
PARROT TALK follows a simple narrative arc of a woman dying on her way to the grocery store; however, nothing about her journey is linear.
View More PARROT TALK (Julius Ferraro): Like a sound wave begging to be heard
In celebration of it’s 47th year, PHILADANCO/The Philadelphia Dance Company presented BLACK STEAM, featuring two new works and two old ones.
View More BLACK STEAM (Philadanco): A multitude of one
They dusted off the rarely used Forrest Theater for this touring production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, a twenty-year-old rock musical which was itself recently dusted off for a 2014 Broadway revival.
View More HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (Forrest Theater): She’s coming for you
The Arden Theatre Company’s world premiere of THE LIGHT PRINCESS mixes up a elixir of make-believe
View More THE LIGHT PRINCESS (Arden): An elixir of make-believe
The narrative of the play dances around anxiety, narcissism, and companionship, and the cards let truth be told.
View More Dance in Sketch: Faye Driscoll’s THANK YOU FOR COMING: PLAY (FringeArts)