AS YOU LIKE IT (Lantern): As you’ve never seen it!
A cross-temporal interpretation of Shakespeare’s Elizabethan classic injects passages of current expressions and gestures, slapstick, and original music into the well-known pastoral rom-com.
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NUREYEV’S EYES (DTC): Painter and dancer onstage
Michael Mastro’s production invigorates David Rush’s play so effectively, you almost don’t notice that each of Rush’s scenes have the same paradigm and general outcome.
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BRONX GOTHIC (Okwui Okpokwasili): Are you awake?
We follow a journey of sex, friendship, beauty, blackness, and love for two young girls in the Bronx.
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Taming the Brew: ShakesBEER brings the Bard to a brewery with a drinky MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
“The script is a little more silly and beer filled then Shakespeare originally wrote it,” says MTC’s artistic director Sean Connolly.
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WITHOUT BORDERS (Uniting Colleges Through Tap): Dance review
Without Borders: A Celebration of World Cultures Through Tap Dance took the audience on an entertaining ride through 11 different countries, performing different tap numbers for each one.
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Two Tickets to Cannes: Twin Philly filmmakers Eli and Lu Bevins talk about their France-bound short
An absence of opportunity is a window for growth: Interview with filmmakers Eli and Lu Bevins
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With RETROACT, Tangle Remixes Its Repertoire
Tangle Movement Arts’ latest show is a circus-theater remix of the most exciting moments from their oeuvre of aerial dance theater,
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Graffito Works: Improvisation Leading PROCESSION: THE ART OF NORMAN LEWIS (PAFA)
The first comprehensive museum overview of influential artist Norman Lewis opened at PAFA with an improvisational dance performance.
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25th Anniversary (Koresh): Celebrating an anniversary with new work
While each piece was different in many ways, there was nonetheless a common stylistic approach that tied them all together: rhythmic dramatic strength.
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A GALAXY UNCHERISHED (House of Solitude): 60-second review
A sketch comedy show disguised as a southern drama. Set in space.
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Lantern to Honor Mary Martello and Richard Vague at its RITE OF SPRING Benefit
Award-winning actress Mary Martello and philanthropic businessman Richard Vague are the Luminary Award honorees at Lantern Theater Company’s 2016 spring fundraising gala.
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Chickabiddy to Perform in the MANTIS SINGER/SONGWRITER SHOWCASE at The Troc
Multi-talented theater artists Aaron Cromie and Emily Schuman formed Chickabiddy in 2015.
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You Don’t Know Philadelphia Writers Like Thom Nickels
Thom Nickels is the go-to person for Philadelphia architecture, gay Philadelphia, and now, literary Philadelphia.
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DON QUIXOTE (PA Ballet): Love and passion, Spanish style
Based on the beloved novel, Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes, DON QUIXOTE has been one of the most popular and challenging ballets for over a century.
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DRIVING MISS DAISY (Act II): A production in the drivers seat
An elderly Jewish lady and a young African American strike up an unexpected and unusual friendship.
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THE WOMEN (EgoPo): An engaging show turns a trifle into a treatise
Clare Boothe Luce saw her 1936 play as a critique of certain malicious denizens of Park Avenue. Director Lane Savadove sees more in it.
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Tennessee Williams in Space? Caitlin Weigel talks about writing a play she doesn’t call a play
When does a sketch become a play? How you know when something is funny? Caitlin Weigel might know.
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I’D RATHER CHOKE THAN BE A QUITTER (Sam Tower + Ensemble): Grace versus crushing rage
A multimedia collaboration helmed by choreographer Sam Tower, who created last year’s Fringe hit 901 Nowhere Street.
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DANCE THEATER OF HARLEM (Annenberg Center): A deserved world-class reputation
Anyone who appreciates modern dance should see the Dance Theatre of Harlem. They are exquisite.
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TOO MUCH SUN (Isis): The hilarity and horrors of a dysfunctional family
An egomaniacal actress disrupts the lives of her estranged dysfunctional family in Nicky Silver’s sardonic and disturbing absurdist tragicomedy.
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