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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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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

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.

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

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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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.

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.

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.

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.

Features Theater

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

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.

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

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,

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.