In the eyes of director Alexander Burns this doomed romance never stood a chance.
View More ROMEO AND JULIET (Quintessence): What fray was here?Category: Reviews
GYPSY (Media Theatre): Everything’s coming up roses
GYPSY is an often produced classic for good reason and is terrific as Mama Rose in the Media Theatre’s production.
View More GYPSY (Media Theatre): Everything’s coming up rosesV TO X (GoKash): Truth behind bars
This world premiere play takes a deeply affecting look at the social carnage caused by mass imprisonment.
View More V TO X (GoKash): Truth behind barsBULLSHOT CRUMMOND (Hedgerow): On-target farce
Mark Tallman’s brisk, amiable production moves easily between farcical comedy and intuitive and intelligent theater.
View More BULLSHOT CRUMMOND (Hedgerow): On-target farceGOD OF CARNAGE (Montgomery Theater): A rich unraveling
Civilization is not easy to maintain. One knock and the lapse of a moment can set it off kilter.
View More GOD OF CARNAGE (Montgomery Theater): A rich unravelingLA TRAVIATA (Opera Philadelphia): A stunning new design and a stellar new Violetta
A refreshed rendition of Verdi’s tragic opera features the impressive house and role debut of Lisette Oropesa as the titular “fallen woman” and a stunning design that purposefully pairs the distant past with recent times.
View More LA TRAVIATA (Opera Philadelphia): A stunning new design and a stellar new ViolettaHIGH SOCIETY (Walnut): A curious Philadelphia Story
A curiously performed version of Arthur Kopit’s unnecessary rearranging and cheapening of The Philadelphia Story.
View More HIGH SOCIETY (Walnut): A curious Philadelphia StoryBABY DOLL (McCarter): Not a girl, not yet a woman
In Tennessee Williams’s script for 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and the 1956 screenplay that derives from it, Baby Doll, everybody puts Baby in a corner.
View More BABY DOLL (McCarter): Not a girl, not yet a womanMAURITIUS (Stagecrafters): Stamp of suspense
Theresa Rebeck’s thriller with a philatelical twist leaves a stamp of suspense on an appreciative audience.
View More MAURITIUS (Stagecrafters): Stamp of suspenseEURYDICE (Villanova Theatre): Death is a continuation of life
Death, as experienced in director James Ijames’s comic yet movingly evocative production of Sarah Ruhl’s play, is a continuation of life.
View More EURYDICE (Villanova Theatre): Death is a continuation of lifeBLACK MALE REVISITED (XPN/ Jaamil Kosoko): Fringe review 71
The dark space at the headquarters of Fringe Arts hosted a kaleidoscope of blackness. Sad blackness. Angry blackness. Rescued blackness. Incarcerated blackness. Lost blackness. Dead blackness.
View More BLACK MALE REVISITED (XPN/ Jaamil Kosoko): Fringe review 71THE EXTRA PEOPLE (Ant Hampton): 2015 Fringe review 71
A commentary on technology, as well as a platform for cultural and philosophic questions
View More THE EXTRA PEOPLE (Ant Hampton): 2015 Fringe review 71ALL MY SONS (People’s Light): A treat from the golden age of American theater
Seeing a naturalistic play by one of the masters of the form, Arthur Miller, with a cast and set that are as realistic and as authentically moving as the text, is a rarity and a treat.
View More ALL MY SONS (People’s Light): A treat from the golden age of American theaterBELLOWS FALLS (Leah Stein Dance Company): 2015 Fringe review 70
Stein makes you notice things about the Iron Factory that you would not have noticed before
View More BELLOWS FALLS (Leah Stein Dance Company): 2015 Fringe review 70PHOTOGRAPH 51 (Lantern): Discovering the secret of life
The backstory of Rosalind Franklin’s seminal image that led to the discovery of the double-helix structure of the DNA molecule is examined in an engrossing Philadelphia premiere.
View More PHOTOGRAPH 51 (Lantern): Discovering the secret of lifeSECOND SKULL (Sothis Music-Theater Ensemble): 2015 Fringe review 69
Sothis devises experimental theater to call attention to collective and conscious freedom.
View More SECOND SKULL (Sothis Music-Theater Ensemble): 2015 Fringe review 69BOING! (Vervet Dance): 2015 Fringe review 68
The Philadelphia Fringe Festival aims to celebrate innovation and creativity, and Vervet Dance certainly lived up to that goal
View More BOING! (Vervet Dance): 2015 Fringe review 68WALLS (Darcy Lyons): 2015 Fringe review 67
Covering everything from a cell wall to the Great Wall of China, WALLS explores of how walls—and the acts which build and destroy them—shape lives
View More WALLS (Darcy Lyons): 2015 Fringe review 67SOUL PROJECT (David Zambrano): 2015 Fringe review 66
An intensely physical performance rooted in an extreme manifestation of experience, SOUL PROJECT, is able to create a powerful reaction of joy and passion
View More SOUL PROJECT (David Zambrano): 2015 Fringe review 66TRACES OF SHE (Evalina Carbonell, Meredith Stapleton, Kat J. Sullivan): 2015 Fringe review 65
Three works focused on “the female embodied”.
View More TRACES OF SHE (Evalina Carbonell, Meredith Stapleton, Kat J. Sullivan): 2015 Fringe review 65