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    ROMEO AND JULIET (Arden): Bounty as boundless as the sea

    It’s quite likely that you’ll never see a finer performance of this Shakespearean warhorse.

    Kathryn Osenlund March 18, 2026 No Comments
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  • Theater

    Why Deaf Theater is a Form of Resistance

    This film follows Daymond Sands, a Deaf theatre program director, preparing his first original showcase, highlighting the cast’s heartfelt effort to bring Deaf perspectives center stage

    Smalley Bogg February 26, 2026 No Comments
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  • Reviews Theater

    RARE ACCIDENTS: HENRY IV parts I and II abridged (Quintessence): A quick visit to Eastcheap

    We are treated to a rare spectacle in a show that would surely please Shakespeare.

    Kathryn Osenlund February 24, 2026 1 Comment
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    MACBETH (Lantern): Dancing, singing… and murder

    In opening scenes three Weird Sisters, witches, brew evil in a pot using scarce ingredients like eye of newt. They cherry pick the future for Macbeth with oracular accuracy, giving over the goods while leaving out important elements.

    Kathryn Osenlund November 11, 2025 1 Comment
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  • Features Interviews

    A Life Unfolds: Kathryn Grody’s The Unexpected 3rd

    Acclaimed actor and writer Kathryn Grody brings her wit, warmth, and sharp perspective to People’s Light in The Unexpected 3rd. Known for her distinctive voice…

    Debra Danese September 19, 2025 No Comments
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Reviews Theater

LOVE, LIES AND TAXIDERMY (Inis Nua): To Wales with love

Christopher Munden February 21, 2018 No Comments

Perhaps it is Harris’s adept characterization of economic pains and societal pressures which sets light romantic comedy in pleasant relief.

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Features Interviews Theater

SOMETHING ROTTEN in Philadelphia: Philly natives return with the touring production

Debra Danese February 20, 2018 No Comments

Philadelphia natives Rob McClure and Maggie Lakis are returning home for SOMETHING ROTTEN.

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Reviews Theater

WAIT UNTIL DARK (Hedgerow Theatre): For brilliant suspense…

Lisa Panzer February 20, 2018 No Comments

Light, shadows, sound and silences coalesce with acting artistry to create a stirring, sensational air of suspense

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Dance Reviews

BALLETS JAZZ DE MONTREAL (NextMove Dance): An intriguing program of natural technique

Meredith Pellon February 20, 2018 No Comments

Ballets Jazz de Montréal returned to the Prince Theater this weekend to perform three Philadelphia premieres.

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Reviews Theater

NEXT TO NORMAL (Media Theatre): Powerful and poignant

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper February 15, 2018 No Comments

Krissy Fraelich’s riveting central performance blends with the perfection of Geoffrey Goldberg’s direction to make this production not only powerful and poignant.

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Reviews Theater

MR BURNS (Villanova): The future in three acts

Christopher Munden February 15, 2018 No Comments

What would 21st-century American culture look like if all we knew about it was told generations after an apocalypse

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60-Second Review Reviews Theater

HEISENBERG (Delaware Theatre Co.): 60-second review

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper February 14, 2018 No Comments

What? Him again? Yes and no.

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Features Theater

Theater in Sketch: TIME REMEMBERED (IRC)

Chuck Schultz February 13, 2018 No Comments

Sketches of TIME REMEMBERED by Jean Anouilh, presented by the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium February 6-March 4, 2018 at the Walnut Street Theatre Studio 5

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TIME REMEMBERED (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): review
Reviews

TIME REMEMBERED (IRC): What is love and how do we kill it?

Julius Ferraro February 13, 2018 No Comments

The IRC prove once again that they are able to pluck strange fruits out of theatrical history and serve them up ably.

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Reviews Theater

WAITING FOR GODOT (Quintessence): Really absurd

Christopher Munden February 12, 2018 No Comments

Quintessence Theatre Group’s WAITING FOR GODOT strikes a balance between humor and pathos, between realism and ridiculousness.

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Music Reviews

NINETEEN MOVEMENTS FOR UNACCOMPANIED CELLO (Scott Ordway): Sounding the Chestnut Hill Skyspace for a world premiere

Margaret Darby February 12, 2018 No Comments

The premiere of composer Scott Ordway’s Nineteen Movements for Unaccompanied Cello took place in the perfect setting – the James Turrell Skyspace in the Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting.

View More NINETEEN MOVEMENTS FOR UNACCOMPANIED CELLO (Scott Ordway): Sounding the Chestnut Hill Skyspace for a world premiere
Features Film

Dinner for One: The greatest cult film you’ve never heard of

Henrik Eger February 12, 2018 12 Comments

A comedy little known in its native Britain has become a cult favorite in Germany.

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Features Theater

A Vagina Monologues for our Times: Earlie Bird Productions’ V2: CREATION MYTH

Smalley Bogg February 12, 2018 No Comments

V2: Creation Myth follows up and updated the themes from The Vagina Monologues.

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Desi Oakley Takes Your Order: Talking about her role in the touring production of WAITRESS

Debra Danese February 11, 2018 No Comments

Desi Oakley is donning an apron and baking her way across the country as Jenna in the national tour of WAITRESS

View More Desi Oakley Takes Your Order: Talking about her role in the touring production of WAITRESS
Reviews Theater

A dilettante at large: WRITTEN ON SKIN (Opera Philadelphia)

Toby Zinman February 11, 2018 4 Comments

Philadelphia’s premiere drama critic, Toby Zinman knows her theater. Opera, not so much. Here’s her dilettante review of Opera Philadelphia’s WRITTEN ON SKIN.

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Features Music Theater

Performance in Sketch: Daedalus String Quartet and Michael Hollinger’s OPUS

Chuck Schultz February 11, 2018 No Comments

Annenberg Center presented a program of music and theater, with a Beethoven performance by the Daedalus String Quartet and a staged reading by playwright Michael Hollinger

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Dance Reviews

DANCES TO AMERICAN MUSIC (Mark Morris Dance Group and Music Ensemble): A breath of familiarity

Meredith Pellon February 11, 2018 No Comments

Mark Morris Dance Group and Music Ensemble returns to Philadelphia after 14 years with Dances to American Music,

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Dance Features

Dance in Sketch: Nadine Bommer Dance Company (IPAY)

Chuck Schultz February 8, 2018 No Comments

Nadine Bommer Dance Company’s Invisi’Ball was a participating artist in the 2018 International Performing Arts for Youth showcase in Philadelphia which happened last week.

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Reviews Theater

LYDIE BREEZE PART ONE: COLD HARBOR (EgoPo): Ambitious, sprawling, but emotionally hollow

Julius Ferraro February 5, 2018 No Comments

COLD HARBOR is fast-paced and skillfully produced, with a large, stylistically diverse cast, but at its emotional core it is stiff and distant.

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REALLY (Theatre Exile): Camera obscura

Toby Zinman February 1, 2018 No Comments

Discomfort is the name of the game here, but to what purpose?

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