Amanda Palmer meets Lizzie Borden
The NYC-based producers of an Amanda Palmer musical welcome cast members from 11th Hour Theater Company’s Lizzie for a one-night-only collaboration.
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George Balanchine’s THE NUTCRACKER (PA Ballet): Showcasing the next great talents
It uses the same stage, the same music, and the same settings as previous years, but this year’s NUTCRACKER is even more convincing and more magical than before.
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THIS WONDERFUL LIFE (Act II): Every time a bell rings…
Tony Braithwaite re-enacts a holiday film classic in Act II Playhouse’s THIS WONDERFUL LIFE.
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PARSONS DANCE (NextMove DANCE): Modern technology meets dance
The repertoires PARSONS DANCE present at the Prince have clear themes and stories, yet remain enigmatic and abstract.
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Welsh Christmas in Philadelphia: Interview with the cast of Walnut Street Theatre’s A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALES
A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALES: Interview with Aaron Cromie, Scott Greer, Maggie Lakes, Matthew Mastronardi, and Amanda Jill Robinson
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ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL (PAC): A mingled web well woven
PAC’s current production confirms its reputation as the best adaptor of classic works.
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A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD (Arden Children’s Theatre): Another year with frog and toad
The simple tricks of the stage awe an audience of CGI-era children, showing that even something as normal as friendship can be magic.
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TWO WALKENS (Miniature Refrigerator Operator): Finding Christopher Walken, finding us
Meehan and Collins use convincing Christopher Walken impressions in an intriguing look at how the fantasies of popular culture provide escape from our lives while they shape them.
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Theater in Sketch: ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL (PAC)
Sketches of William Shakespeare’s ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL from Philadelphia Artists’ Collective.
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BECOMING AN IMAGE (PAFA): Intimacy and isolation in the dark – Cassils at PAFA
There is a strange, uncomfortable mix of intimacy and isolation at play when a group of people are thrust into total darkness together.
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ANTAGONYMS (Curio): What are any of us but destructive dualities
The messiness in Rachel Gluck’s debut play is what make it most lifelike. In the end, what are any of us but destructive dualities, fighting between our desires and our own self-interest?
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Shhh… tell no one, invite everyone: Almanac Dance Circus Theater has a secret show
Did you know you were a member of a secret religious cult? You are, and a meeting has been called to elect a new leader
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A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALES (Walnut Street): 60-second review
Written by Welshman Dylan Thomas in the 1950s, A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALES is every nostalgic Christmas trope with song thrown in, and it’s totally delightful.
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SLEEPING BEAUTY (People’s Light): Festive wake-up
The Grimmish fairy tale kingdom is transformed to Paoli Shoals, a town depressed by the collapse of a once-thriving recording industry
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RUMORS (Allens Lane Theater): 60-second review
Noel Hanley’s masterful treatment of Neil Simon’s RUMORS exemplifies a farce done right.
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Dance in Sketch: AT HOME WITH THE HUMORLESS BASTARD
“Is this a dance performance or a social experiment?”
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HANDLE WITH CARE (Montgomery Theater): 60-second review
HANDLE WITH CARE is brilliantly seasoned with humor—the type found when differing cultures collide.
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The Unemployed Young Actor, a case study
When Megan Farley was still studying theater at Rutgers University in Camden, she thought life as an actor was going to be easy after college.
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JEAN & TERRY (FringeArts): A mystery of the heart
What exactly is the relationship between Jean and Terry?
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Theater in Sketch: JEAN & TERRY
Philadelphia artist Melissa Krodman and long-time collaborator Kelly Bond enter the mind’s eye for an experimental new play.
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