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
If you’ve ever seen an inscription in a used book and envisioned the person who wrote it, or stumbled upon a note meant for someone else and marveled, FOUND is speaking to you
View More FOUND (PTC): 60-second reviewIf your dancing shoes aren’t quite up to the task, this show will do the trick.
View More AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (Broadway Philadelphia): Put on your dancing shoes, watch your spirits climbThe distinguished British pianist Imogen Cooper presented several works for piano on November 9, 2016, at the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton.
View More Imogen Cooper (McCarter): Concert reviewAN ILIAD brings Homer’s characters and their epic struggle to life using just a sole narrator and musical accompaniment.
View More AN ILIAD (Lantern): Homer sweet homerThere’s no place like home, and this winter you don’t need to drive very far to learn that lesson again at the Walnut Street Theater’s musical THE WIZARD OF OZ.
View More THE WIZARD OF OZ (Walnut): Just like you remember it!Drawing dance is a challenge. It is difficult to capture gesture, for example, because it is always changing. Modern dance provides a new means to an abstracted form of story telling. Each performance left me with a different feeling: bizarre, savage, sweet and tender, sensual, and empowering.
View More Dance in Sketch: Koresh Artists’ Showcase November SeriesLike other masterpieces of ballet, SUNSET, O639 HOURS grows by itself and lets the dancers grow.
View More SUNSET, O639 HOURS (BalletX): A ballet masterpieceInis Nua Theatre Company’s 2011 breakout hit DUBLIN BY LAMPLIGHT returns to the stage in partnership with Drexel University’s Mandell Professionals in Residence Project
View More DUBLIN BY LAMPLIGHT (Inis Nua / Drexel MPiRP): Irish theater for the theatricalFemale-centric theater group ReVamp Collective presents 12 CHAIRS.
View More Six Questions for Six Directors: John O’Hara’s 12 CHAIRS gets a revamped productionAN AMERICAN IN PARIS’s touring cast includes Philly local Colby Q. Lindeman, a proud graduate of Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts
View More A Philadelphian in AN AMERICAN IN PARIS: Colby Lindeman returns to his hometown on a Broadway tourEri Yoneda interviews the lead dancers of BalletX’s popular contemporary full-length
View More Ready for the Next Flight: BalletX reprises SUNSET, o639 HOURSWitnessing Jérôme Bel’s dance I captured the representation of a baroque drama, an existential dance, and light and sound personified.
View More Dance in Sketch: Jérôme Bel (FringeArts)Dance is an ever-changing artform: the standard themes change, technique changes,audiences change. Even such key aspects and tools as the body shape of the dancers change.
View More REVOLUTION (PA Ballet): Revolution for our mindJosé Rivera’s fantastically powerful portent of a world is fabulously riveting as directed by James Ijames at Villanova Theatre.
View More MARISOL (Villanova): Wake up call by golf clubAct II Playhouse gets all dramatic with Theresa Rebeck’s MAURITIUS
View More MAURITIUS (Act II): Feeling the philateliaAn election comic by Aaron Krolikowski
View More The Architect and the Candidate: An election comicAs a pioneer dancer and choreographer, Martha Graham established the root of modern dance almost single-handedly.
View More MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY (NextMove DANCE): Timeless dancesSEX TALK once again turns musical theater tropes into sing-song gropes that will touch you in places only your partner—or favorite presidential candidate—should
View More Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby: Katherine Perry returns with SEX TALK election specialAt 800+ pages, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov would not seem ideally suited to theatrical interpretation.
View More DELIRIUM (EgoPo): 60-second reviewThoughts on two shows, HEISENBERG and VIETGONE, under the auspices of the Manhattan Theatre Club.
View More [NYC] HEISENBERG and VIETGONE (Manhattan Theatre Club): A weekend report