AN ILIAD (Lantern): Homer sweet homer
AN ILIAD brings Homer’s characters and their epic struggle to life using just a sole narrator and musical accompaniment.
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THE WIZARD OF OZ (Walnut): Just like you remember it!
There’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.
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Dance in Sketch: Koresh Artists’ Showcase November Series
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.
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SUNSET, O639 HOURS (BalletX): A ballet masterpiece
Like other masterpieces of ballet, SUNSET, O639 HOURS grows by itself and lets the dancers grow.
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DUBLIN BY LAMPLIGHT (Inis Nua / Drexel MPiRP): Irish theater for the theatrical
Inis 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
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Six Questions for Six Directors: John O’Hara’s 12 CHAIRS gets a revamped production
Female-centric theater group ReVamp Collective presents 12 CHAIRS.
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A Philadelphian in AN AMERICAN IN PARIS: Colby Lindeman returns to his hometown on a Broadway tour
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS’s touring cast includes Philly local Colby Q. Lindeman, a proud graduate of Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts
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Ready for the Next Flight: BalletX reprises SUNSET, o639 HOURS
Eri Yoneda interviews the lead dancers of BalletX’s popular contemporary full-length
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Dance in Sketch: Jérôme Bel (FringeArts)
Witnessing Jérôme Bel’s dance I captured the representation of a baroque drama, an existential dance, and light and sound personified.
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REVOLUTION (PA Ballet): Revolution for our mind
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.
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MARISOL (Villanova): Wake up call by golf club
José Rivera’s fantastically powerful portent of a world is fabulously riveting as directed by James Ijames at Villanova Theatre.
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MAURITIUS (Act II): Feeling the philatelia
Act II Playhouse gets all dramatic with Theresa Rebeck’s MAURITIUS
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The Architect and the Candidate: An election comic
An election comic by Aaron Krolikowski
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MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY (NextMove DANCE): Timeless dances
As a pioneer dancer and choreographer, Martha Graham established the root of modern dance almost single-handedly.
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Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby: Katherine Perry returns with SEX TALK election special
SEX 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
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DELIRIUM (EgoPo): 60-second review
At 800+ pages, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov would not seem ideally suited to theatrical interpretation.
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[NYC] HEISENBERG and VIETGONE (Manhattan Theatre Club): A weekend report
Thoughts on two shows, HEISENBERG and VIETGONE, under the auspices of the Manhattan Theatre Club.
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Getting NOWHERE FAST: Sam Tower and BRAT team up for female-fronted rock ‘n’ roll dance theater
Jess Conda joins Sam Tower + Ensemble in an all badass female rock noir cabaret.
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Philadelphia Theater Calendar: November 2016
what’s on stage this month?
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Making Philadelphia Theater Great Again: Ken Brady’s THE LETTER H
What will future theatermakers and scriptwriters make of Donald Trump and his campaign. Ken Brady gets a head start.
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