Steve Czarnecki says he is thrilled to be back on the barricade with the touring cast of Les Miserables. Steve not only plays an ensemble…
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BLACK LODGE (Opera Philadelphia): Beautiful, unsettling, and thrilling
If Black Lodge is any indication of what the afterlife has in store for us then I would encourage you all to repent immediately—that is,…
View More BLACK LODGE (Opera Philadelphia): Beautiful, unsettling, and thrillingMODIGLIANI UP CLOSE at the Barnes: A dilettante at large reviews
Modigliani at the Barnes Foundation is a ravishing exhibition in a ravishing venue.
View More MODIGLIANI UP CLOSE at the Barnes: A dilettante at large reviewsTHE GLASS MENAGERIE (Arden): Revisiting the famed memory play
Tennessee Williams had been writing since he was a teenager, and by the time he was 30 years old he was getting nowhere. His early…
View More THE GLASS MENAGERIE (Arden): Revisiting the famed memory playCINDERELLA (Pennsylvania Ballet): Ben Stevenson’s classic choreography
Philadelphia Ballet opens its 2022-2023 season with Ben Stevenson’s Cinderella. The production is dazzling and powerful, it may ALMOST let you believe in a fairytale. …
View More CINDERELLA (Pennsylvania Ballet): Ben Stevenson’s classic choreographyNew York Reviews: LEOPOLDSTADT and COST OF LIVING:
Two meditations on misfortune show us what it is to be “laughing wild amid severest woe.”
View More New York Reviews: LEOPOLDSTADT and COST OF LIVING:Actor Ben Dibble steps into the ring in ROCKY, The Musical
Actor and audience favorite Ben Dibble is set to take the stage in Walnut Street Theatre’s ROCKY, The Musical.
View More Actor Ben Dibble steps into the ring in ROCKY, The MusicalLittle Girls Everywhere: Stefanie Londino in ANNIE
Jersey Girl Stefanie Londino is coming to Philly with the cast of Annie.
View More Little Girls Everywhere: Stefanie Londino in ANNIETHE CHAIRS (Quintessence): 60-second review
Due to the pandemic, it had been many months since I’d visited the Sedgwick Theater in Germantown. October 1 was opening night for The Chairs…
View More THE CHAIRS (Quintessence): 60-second reviewROMEO AND JULIET (OJ Productions): 2022 Fringe review
It’s a tragedy that more audiences will not have a chance to enjoy the production.
View More ROMEO AND JULIET (OJ Productions): 2022 Fringe reviewLATE NIGHT SNACKS FAMILY SHOW (Bearded Ladies): 2022 Fringe review
Okay: A drag queen show for children.
View More LATE NIGHT SNACKS FAMILY SHOW (Bearded Ladies): 2022 Fringe reviewA Play at the Intersection of Law and Brutality: CORPUS opens this week
How many bodies make a body of law? Corpus is a play at the intersection of legal interpretation and human experience.
View More A Play at the Intersection of Law and Brutality: CORPUS opens this weekFringe in Sketch: BIG ASS BITTIES PRESENTS… (Sarah Knittel)
This will be wild. Expect bits. You will see bits.
View More Fringe in Sketch: BIG ASS BITTIES PRESENTS… (Sarah Knittel)TRAVESTIES (Lantern): A play of ideas married to farce
Tom Stoppard’s newest play Leopoldstadt is coming to New York, and once again he is being talked about as if he were the second coming…
View More TRAVESTIES (Lantern): A play of ideas married to farceFringe in Sketch: LUSTER (Junk)
Lust for exposure and success turns… TRAGIC. Set in an underground shopping mall turned nightclub, Junk’s newest experience, Luster, reveals the twisted nature of reality show…
View More Fringe in Sketch: LUSTER (Junk)Watching THE TWO-CHARACTER PLAY (OUT-CRY) by Tennessee Williams
This play-within-a-play about a play takes place on the Bluver Theatre’s tiny stage, brightly lit, although called dim by the characters. The audience, up close…
View More Watching THE TWO-CHARACTER PLAY (OUT-CRY) by Tennessee WilliamsRomeo & Juliet in a Bar (Shakespeare on Tap): 2022 Fringe review
A little bit naughty at times, semi-Shakespearean lingo is mixed with a good deal of TomFoolery.
View More Romeo & Juliet in a Bar (Shakespeare on Tap): 2022 Fringe reviewFOOD (Geoff Sobelle): 2022 Fringe review
Unless you know Geoff Sobelle’s other works, you’ve never seen anything like this.
View More FOOD (Geoff Sobelle): 2022 Fringe reviewTWO-CHARACTER PLAY (IRC): 2022 Fringe review
Nobody writes crazy, despairing, desperate women like Tennessee Williams
View More TWO-CHARACTER PLAY (IRC): 2022 Fringe reviewDEAR EVAN HANSEN (National Tour at Forrest Theatre): Return to sender
The show’s message is deeply cynical: that social media and community solidarity in the face of tragic events are ultimately self-serving
View More DEAR EVAN HANSEN (National Tour at Forrest Theatre): Return to sender