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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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SANS EVERYTHING (FringeArts): Artificial Intelligence with Lightning Rod Special + Strange Attractor

Lev Feigin February 11, 2017 1 Comment

Humanity creates its own godhead – AI – that longs to experience its creators through Shakespeare

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Dance Features Previews

Taking Flight with Cirque du Soliel

Eri Yoneda February 10, 2017 No Comments

Cirque du Soleil, the Montreal-based, internationally renowned, always-beyond-imaginable performance company brings TORUK-The First Flight to the Wells Fargo Center March 8-12, 2017

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THE ENCHANTED (IRC): a great revival speaks to our times

Lev Feigin February 10, 2017 No Comments

Philly’s favorite absurdist company Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium revives Jean Giraudoux’s THE ENCHANTED.

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seagull EgoPo review
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SEAGULL (EgoPo): A comedy of torn hearts and thwarted dreams

Kathryn Osenlund February 8, 2017 No Comments

The pathetically unfulfilled romantic expectations! The sad characters and absurd human comedy! EgoPo nails it, and beautifully. Sketches by Chuck Schultz.

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JOHN (Arden): Things that haunt

Christopher Munden February 7, 2017 No Comments

There remains something compelling about ghost stories. Annie Baker’s JOHN demonstrates why: our past haunts just as well as any poltergeist.

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ROMEO & JULIET (Media): A Rose of any other name

Chuck Schultz February 5, 2017 No Comments

The lights show a bare stage; the set is two dilapidated buildings with scaffolding. The curtains intermittently change from day to night with a transient…

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Philadelphia Theater Calendar February 2017

Calendar February 1, 2017 No Comments

What’s on stage this month in Philadelphia?

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Reviews Theater

LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR (Walnut): Funny, morbid, timely, and of a time

Julie Zeglen January 28, 2017 No Comments

Theatergoers who long for the good ol’ days of pre-political correctness will love it. Everyone else, just enjoy the ride.

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Two by Tuomanen: MARCUS/EMMA (InterAct) and HELLO! SADNESS (FringeArts)

Christopher Munden January 28, 2017 No Comments

Two shows by Philadelphia writer Mary Tuomanen opened on consecutive nights last week, providing a singular opportunity to assess common threads tying together works by the author.

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Dance Reviews

Dance eXchange (BalletX): Handing wings to our future

Eri Yoneda January 28, 2017 No Comments

Through performance, we how to keep our boundaries and respect each other, sharing what we love and cherish

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HAMLET (Bedlam Theater Company): “Shakespeare’s most underrated comedy” is at McCarter in Princeton

Kathryn Osenlund January 27, 2017 No Comments

Bedlam’s imagination and the energy of their acting make their production stand out.

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Interviews Music Previews

A Winter in the Life of J.S. Bach

Christopher Munden January 24, 2017 No Comments

This February, Choral Arts Philadelphia presents the Winter segment of the 1734-1735: A Season In The Life of J.S. Bach.

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Dance in Sketch: DOUG VARONE AND DANCERS (NextMove)

Chuck Schultz January 24, 2017 No Comments

oug Varone and Dancers presented three different dances

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Matt and Matt: A conversation with one-man comedy duo Matt Holmes

Smalley Bogg January 22, 2017 No Comments

In Matt&, Philly improv comedian Matt Holmes performs with an audience member. The show runs every month at 7pm on the fourth Thursday of the month at the new Good Good Comedy Theatre.

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CONSTELLATIONS (Wilma): Love in the multiverse

Julie Zeglen January 22, 2017 No Comments

“We have all the time we ever had.”

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INFORMED CONSENT (Lantern): A strange kind of ethics

William Brock January 21, 2017 No Comments

The play has a compelling point to make about the diversity of truth and mutual respect, but in the end, it’s difficult to take the argument seriously.

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AND THEN THERE WERE NONE (Allens Lane): This production of Agatha Christie’s classic stays close to the original

Dorie Byrne January 17, 2017 No Comments

The real horror of Christie’s original ending sits in discord with the show’s campy beginning.

View More AND THEN THERE WERE NONE (Allens Lane): This production of Agatha Christie’s classic stays close to the original
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LIZZIE (11th Hour): Lizzie Borden took an axe

Toby Zinman January 17, 2017 No Comments

This is what “stifled rage” sounds like. Not so stifled, but certainly enraged.

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Features Theater

Theater in Sketch: Chris Davis in ONE-MAN APOCALYPSE NOW

Chuck Schultz January 17, 2017 No Comments

The setting is Vietnam and we are just waking up at the voice of Martin Sheen.

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Reviews

THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, PART 2 (Hedgerow): Infinite fun!

Lisa Panzer January 17, 2017 No Comments

Familiarity with the pan-galactic Hitchhikers Guide isn’t necessary to appreciate this cosmic comedy, just a general suspension of time, disbelief and willingness to have infinite fun.

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