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    FRANKLINLAND (Lantern): A visit with Philadelphia’s Founding Father

    The first thing to know about Lantern Theater Company’s Franklinland is that the direction is solid, the actors first-rate, and their back-and-forth conversations are punchy and funny.

    Kathryn Osenlund May 23, 2026 No Comments
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    CLASS C (Azuka): Dystopia close at hand

    Things are not yet as bad as the reality presented in the play. But it urges us to beware, to speak up for ourselves at the ballot box, and not allow the promise of 1776 to continue down the sad road to nightmare. 

    Kathryn Osenlund May 17, 2026 No Comments
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    THE HYPOCHONDRIAC (Quintessence): The silliest possible nonsense

    Outrageous and farcical, this play is not just over the top – it’s left the top so far behind that they’ve forgotten where it left it. The applause at the end was wild.

    Kathryn Osenlund April 30, 2026 No Comments
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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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    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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Marc D. Donovan and Keith J. Conallen in A STEADY RAIN in Walnut Street Theatre's Independence Studio on 3. Photo by Mark Garvin
Reviews Theater

A STEADY RAIN (Walnut St): An intense and engrossing cop show

Toby Zinman February 24, 2018 No Comments

If you’re a fan of TV police procedurals this is the play for you.

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Why Wait? Director Ken Marini talks about Quintessence Theatre’s brilliant WAITING FOR GODOT

Henrik Eger February 22, 2018 4 Comments

Quintessence Theatre’s production of WAITING FOR GODOT just closed. Henrik Eger spoke to the director about his background and his experiences directing Samuel Beckett’s classic.

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AN EVENING WITH GROUCHO (Bucks County Playhouse): 60-second review

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper February 21, 2018 No Comments

Frank Ferrante can turn into his boyhood and current idol, Groucho Marx, on a dime.

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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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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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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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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.

View More NEXT TO NORMAL (Media Theatre): Powerful and poignant
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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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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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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
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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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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
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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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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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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

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