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This month features circus heroes Almanac, Philadanco alum Lauren Putty White, a short by SmokeyScout artistic director Josh McIlvain, and the return of prodigal playwright John Rosenberg.
View More Theater, dance, and circus for the price of a sandwich: NICE AND FRESH December
Holiday magic is alive and well at the Laurie Beechman Cabaret Theater.
View More HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS (Blend Theatrics): A sweet treat for the season
Tribe of Fools’ popular holiday burlesque is back this year for one night only with its fifth ensemble-devised installment, THE REVENGE OF HORNY RUDOLPH.
View More Tribe of Fools Gets Naughty with THE REVENGE OF HORNY RUDOLPH: A Holiday Burlesque Preview with Terry Brennan
Can theater be sincere? What does it mean to reveal personal secrets onstage? Is truth a form of performance? Find out.
View More Opens this week, runs through 2028: THE SINCERITY PROJECT (Team Sunshine), a 24-year experiment
KISS ME, KATE should bring comedy, heart, big production numbers, and a classic big finale. But Renaissance Music Theatre’s production is a few weeks of…
View More KISS ME, KATE (Renaissance Music Theatre): Tom, Dick, or Harry would all call this a flop
Power Street Theatre was founded in 2012 by two Latina Temple alums to showcase the talents of Latin American theater artists. It’s biggest production to…
View More Dominicana Dreamin’: Erlina Ortiz on Latin American theater and her new play, MORIR SONYANDO
The family friendly holiday panto takes a wacky look at the growing pains of the future King Arthur as he faces the challenges of life, learning, and leadership.
View More ARTHUR AND THE TALE OF THE RED DRAGON: A MUSICAL PANTO (People’s Light): Coming of age in the Middle Ages
But you don’t have to be an egghead to enjoy this play. It’s a great show for non-physicists, a category that includes a whole lot of us.
View More QED (Lantern) No doctorate in theoretical physics is required to enjoy this production
Peter DeLaurier reprises his role as physicist Richard Feynman in Lantern Theater Company’s remount of its 2006 hit.
View More QED (Lantern): A glowing tribute to a brilliant man
Debra Miller sees a LOT of theater. Indeed, she is the most prolific theater writer in town. Henrik Eger talked to Deb about her background and writing.
View More Debra Miller: An interview with Philadelphia’s most prolific theater reviewer
In a time-bending script that requires each of the actors to play multiple roles across the last century or so, “Watson”, played in all his guises by Griffin Stanton-Ameisen, is the force that ties them all together.
View More THE (CURIOUS CASE OF THE) WATSON INTELLIGENCE (Azuka): Do we all need a Watson in our lives
In doing MARY POPPINS, a director has to decide between approaches: light and fantastical like the movie or darker like the book.
View More MARY POPPINS (Walnut): Flying between lightness and gravitas
The much-loved little Shubin Theatre is closing. Rich Rubin shares his memories and thoughts.
View More Making Dreams Happen: The closing of the Shubin Theatre
There is magic and wonder in the world, and not the cheap kind from childhood fairy tales, but the hard earned kind from adults who speak in their own true voices and dare to tell us how we’re all put together.
View More JUG-BABY: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY (Transmissions Theatre): A jar of surprises
Curio personalizes a national news story: THE MATTER OF FRANK SCHAEFER, a Methodist priest defrocked for officiating his son’s same sex wedding.
View More THE MATTER OF FRANK SCHAEFER (Curio): Go and do likewise
It’s no secret that sex and celebrity sell, so what better use for those ever-reliable marketing commodities than in the service of a serious message?…
View More GREEN PORNO (Isabella Rossellini): Sex and celebrity in the service of a serious message
Dan Hodge discusses his edited version of HAMLET, onstage through November 23 at Hedgerow Theatre.
View More To alter or not to alter, that is the question: Dan Hodge on directing HAMLET in unorthodox ways
This 90-minute cabaret featuring of three bitter divorced women and a newspaper pen pal crams heartless bubble gum jingles and cheap laughs into the plot of a confused Lifetime special.
View More TIL DIVORCE DO US PART: THE MUSICAL (Society Hill Playhouse): The annoying ex you never wanted to see
High-energy hilarity fills L’Étage as the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium remounts its 2008 Fringe hit, a trio of one-act parodies by Christopher Durang.
View More A STREETCAR NAMED DURANG (IRC): 60-second review
Vivienne Franzmann’s new play, PESTS, is the first offering of Inis Nua Theatre Company’s 2014/15 reading series
View More PESTS opens Inis Nua’s reading series tonight