A tragic play gives this Irish American writer a newfound appreciation for his Irish heritage.
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Category: Reviews
THE JUNGLE BOOK (Arden): Merging morals with make-believe
Based on British author Rudyard Kipling’s series of exotic children’s stories inspired by his childhood in India, THE JUNGLE BOOK is now an engaging family play, celebrating its world premiere at Arden Children’s Theatre.
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HAVING OUR SAY… (Philadanco): Five dances resonate
Republished by kind permission from The Dance Journal. Philadanco had a roller-coaster winter when the heating system at their company studios blew out to the…
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Philadelphia Hosts World Dance Day
International Day has grown into a weeklong celebration of dance that commences on April 22 and finishes on April 29,
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BONHOEFFER’S COST (Beacon): 60-second review
A serious drama about the last year and a half of a short, fascinating life.
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UNDERNEATH THE LINTEL (Hedgerow): Following a shaggy dog to the library
One of the funniest and most entertaining of all shaggy dog stories.
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PENELOPE (Inis Nua): Love and death in a hot country
Enda Walsh’s existential thought-play treads a well-worn path, but it does so with intelligence and poetry.
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THE GOLDEN COACH (Stagecrafters): Farcical wheels of fortune
In THE GOLDEN COACH, a comedy, author and director Yaga Brady takes the audience back to 1770 in Lima, Peru. We meet the Spanish Viceroy,…
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GREEN DAY’S AMERICAN IDIOT (CTC): An electrifying production of a timeless punk-rock opera
CTC’s production, directed with full-out intensity by Michael Gray, captures all the rage, love, frustration, and uncertainty of rebellious youth on the verge of adulthood.
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THE HAIRY APE (EgoPo): The cage of modern life
The challenge for EgoPo director Brenna Geffers was to make a play which must have been theatrically and politically radical a century ago relevant to a 21st-century audience.
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THE SHADOW OF A GUNMAN (IHT): Humor and horror in the Irish homeland
Set during their fight for independence, this controversial two-act tragicomedy merges realism with poetry for an insightful and funny view of the Irish.
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MACBETH (Arden): Rare emotion and rarer straightforwardness [critical mass review #5]
The elements which displease other writers are what makes this production a success, according to Michael Fisher in review five of the ongoing Critical Mass series.
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre): What fools these mortals be!
Philly Shakes’ production isn’t afraid to embrace the wonderfully silly and naughty aspects of Shakespeare, and the approach works like a charm.
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UNCANNY VALLEY (InterAct): What makes us human?
Post-modern technology collides with human ethics in InterAct Theatre Company’s revolving world-premiere production of playwright-in-residence Thomas Gibbons’ UNCANNY VALLEY.
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NATIONAL PASTIME (Bucks County Playhouse): 60-second review
It’s 1933 in the struggling radio station WZBQ in Baker City, Iowa. Owner Barry hatches an ingenious plan to resurrect a defunct baseball team, boost ratings, and save the station.
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SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER (Mechanical): An authentic delight!
What better place than Philadelphia’s historic Powel House for its resident company, The Mechanical Theater, to stage this historically faithful production.
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MACBETH (Arden): Shakepeare as spectacle [critical mass review #4]
It’s the fourth installment of the Critical Mass review of MACBETH at the Arden, but Julius Ferraro thinks too many works have already been written about an unremarkable piece of theater.
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HAMLET (Wilma): Blanka Zizka’s daring production amazes while keeping its distance
Not unlike the U.S. Constitution, HAMLET endures partly because its imperfections and spaces allow for different ways to read it.
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THE FAIR MAID OF THE WEST, PART I (PAC): A pirate adventure “worth gold!”
Thomas Heywood’s ridiculous rip-roaring romantic romp across the high seas of the English Renaissance is the latest in the Philadelphia Artists’ Collective’s acclaimed productions of rarely seen classics.
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MACBETH (Arden): Numb from the neck down, well almost [critical mass review #3]
Jessica Foley gives this week’s critical mass take on MACBETH at the Arden, part of a new review series on Phindie.
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