TOSCA (Philadelphia Orchestra): Music as a cultural mission
Yannick Nevet-Seguin conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra in a semi-staged performance of Puccini’s TOSCA
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Theater in Sketch: M. Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran (Alliance Française): )
Playwright Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt adapted his novella, Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, into a theatrical performance
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All Things Must Pass: Orbiter 3 members consider their finale
In the end, the plays you produce are greater than the plays you don’t
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Abracadabra: Jonathan Weir appears in ALADDIN
Jonathan Weir is set to return to Philadelphia as the villainous Jafar in Disney’s ALADDIN.
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JEWELS (PA Ballet): A dazzling season finale
Pennsylvania Ballet closed its 2017-2018 season with George Balanchine’s masterpiece, JEWELS
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Where Are Conservatives in the Arts?
Like truth, art has a well-known liberal bias
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MOMIX (NextMove Dance): Awakening your senses
What was on the stage was recreation of what exists in the universe: organisms; minerals; plants; animals that breath, live, and recreate.
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MEASURE OF A MAN (dir. Jim Loach): Film review
Even though the film is rather plain, the central characterization makes this breezy beach-read of a movie a thorough joy.
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Performance in Sketch: SÉANCERS (Jaamil Olawale Kosoko / FringeArts)
Jaamil Olawale Kosoko makes us feel comfortable before getting all Prince Purple Rain on us. It’s great.
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Dance in Sketch: INNER SUN (Koresh Dance)
Koresh Dance presented INNER SUN at the Suzanne Roberts Theater April 26.
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I HATE HAMLET: (Allens Lane): Theater on theater
Allens Lane Theater company, directed by Mariangela Saavedra offers an evening of community fun with I HATE HAMLET, a lighthearted comedy about theater’s favorite topic:…
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A Dilettante at Large: THE RESTAURANT SCHOOL AT WALNUT HILL COLLEGE
All this dilettanting around town can make a critic hungry
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HOPE AND GRAVITY (1812 Productions): “Even the lightest things come crashing back down to earth.”
There are many good comedies out there, but not many where the weight of tragedy crests and wanes beneath the laughter.
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Dance in Sketch: Nia-Ni Chen Dance Company and the Ahn Trio (Next Move Dance)
Next Move Dance presented Nia-Ni Chen company with the Ahn Trio
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PASSAGE (Wilma): Love and death in Country X
The way to get an audience to ask itself profound questions about a work is not by asking the audience profound questions about the work.
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Philadelphia Theater Calendar May 2018
Theater in Philadelphia in May 2018
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CARMEN (Opera Philadelphia): Color and excitement
nspired by by the resetting of their 2015 production of La Traviata, director Paul Curran and set/costume designer Gary McCann team up again to bring CARMEN to a nearer past, set in a beautiful Havana-esque 1950’s.
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OUR FEW AND EVIL DAYS (Inis Nua): Tantalizing ambiguity
This is difficult review to write since almost anything I’d say would be a spoiler. I can say this much: Go see it.
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Theater in Sketch: PASSAGE (Wilma Theater)
PASSAGE reminds sketch artist Chuck Schultz of a painting at the Philadelphia Museum by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
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SING THE BODY ELECTRIC (Theatre Exile): Electricity sparks and glows brightly, then sputters
Is there more still left in the playwright’s head that didn’t make it to the stage?
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