A Music Video to Make You HAPPY
Friend of Phindie Josh McIlvain and his band Casual Fantastic released a new video for their song “Happy (You Make Me)” from recently released album…
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Yes, It’s Possible to Learn Acting from Home—Here’s How
The path to becoming an actor is a difficult one full of twists and turns. A study in the Guardian in 2019 found that only…
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The Digital Era Reshaping Art: Insights from Olyvia Kwok-Decani
In a rapidly changing world, the art industry is undergoing a profound transformation due to the advent of the digital age, and millennials are playing…
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TWELFTH NIGHT (Wilma): Foolery shines everywhere
“Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines every where.” Leaving Copernicus aside, the Fool’s wry remark is an apt description…
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TWELFTH NIGHT (Lantern): Some are born great
Shakespeare wrote Twelfth Night (1599-1600), one of his few fantasy plays, immediately before he penned his incomparable Hamlet (1600-1601). As Artistic Director Charles McMahon describes…
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TITANIC (Fulton Theater): 60-second review
Featuring a large cast of fantastic singers, Fulton Theater’s production of Titanic is worth the drive to Lancaster. Telling the story of the infamous ocean…
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TWELFTH NIGHT (Lantern): Shall we set about some revels?
“Shall we set about some revels?” Yes! The battle begins: Lantern Theater Company opened its excellent and enjoyable production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night; soon to…
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OF GOD AND COUNTRY (PMA): A dilettante at large review
The DAL is having quite a week! First the Orchestra and then the Museum: Philadelphia’s finest institutions providing much enjoyment. Philadelphia Museum of Art has…
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THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA’S GREAT STAGES GALA: A Dilettante at Large review
DAL is pleased to report that this gala was more fun than glam. Oh, there was the occasional gown and a sprinkling of black ties,…
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A Fright of a Night: Interview with Michael Biren of Beetlejuice
Michael Biren always thought it would be possible to perform at the Academy of Music. The Cherry Hill, NJ native was exposed to the arts…
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FAT HAM + ABANDON: Considering James Ijames’s new and newer work
James Ijames won the Pulitzer Prize for Fat Ham, which is now running on Broadway; his even newer play, Abandon, has just opened at Theatre Exile.
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GALILEE (Azuka): A tale from down under
A small town’s main business—tourism— dries up and bit by bit small businesses follow.
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THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (1812): Fall-off-your-chair hilarity
This is not the admiring smirk or a contemptuous Ha-ha!, but fall-off-your-chair, eye-mopping hilarity.
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La Bohème (Opera Philadelphia): Time’s arrow
Of Yuval Sharon’s reverse-chronology retelling of Puccini’s La Bohème, the Wall Street Journal says, “It’s not just a gimmick—it works.” Of course, if you have…
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DON GIOVANNI (AVA): A dilettante at large review
Mozart’s Don Giovanni is the greatest opera ever written. Don’t take my word for it—what do I know, I’m a dilettante—but that was the opinion…
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[NYC] PRIMA FACIE (John Golden Theater): Ordeal by theater
Take the trigger warnings seriously: This is ordeal by theater.
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He’s Just a Man: Interview with Kodiak Thompson in Jesus Christ Superstar
Temple grad Kodiak Thompson returns to Philadelphia with the touring production of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
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PLUM BUN (EgoPo): Passing on history
This remarkable adaptation of a century-old novel concludes EgoPo’s Harlem Renaissance season
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The Art of Stepping: Interview with Valencia Springer of Step Afrika!
Valenica Odeyka Emonni Springer has been stepping since childhood. The Brooklyn native got her start in the dance style through her mom, and is now…
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Perry, Schumann, and Mahler (Curtis Symphony Orchestra): Season-closing performance
Kurt Vonnegut once wrote that there are two types of writers. And because he’s Kurt Vonnegut, he gave them both silly names. First you’ve got…
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