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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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  • Reviews Theater

    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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  • Reviews Theater

    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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  • Reviews Theater

    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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Dance Reviews

Hope Rising concert inspires awareness and action

Lewis Whittington for The Dance Journal October 22, 2016 No Comments

Some 50 dance artists and choreographers presenting a wide variety of styles and dance leve

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Features Music

Mexrrissey Does Morrissey: Interview with band member Ceci Bastida

Debra Danese October 22, 2016 No Comments

Top players in the Mexico music scene joined forces to play Morrissey’s and The Smith’s greatest hits. They’re coming to the Kimmel Center October 29.

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Reviews Theater

A NEW BRAIN (Horizon): Getting a new lease on life

Debra Miller October 22, 2016 2 Comments

Theatre Horizon’s production of William Finn’s autobiographical musical comedy is filled with off-beat humor, powerhouse vocals, and a life-affirming message.

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Reviews Theater

WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING (Wilma): How a hard rain’s a gonna fall

Nicole Forrester October 21, 2016 No Comments

Using the endtimes as a backdrop, Andrew Bovell uses the drama within a family’s history as a parallel for the turbulence in humanity’s.

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Features Music

Keen to Feed: Favorite tunes from Red 40 & the Last Groovement

Christopher Munden October 21, 2016 No Comments

Artists from Philly’s favorite clown-funk band pick favorite songs from their new album and the world of music

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Reviews Theater

THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA MCBRIDE (Arden): “Your First Shade!”

Joshua Millhouse October 21, 2016 No Comments

Dito van Reigersberg in a new drag persona steals the spotlight in this riotuous, fierce production.

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Features Theater

Kaepernick on a Hot Tin Roof? Did self-censorship constrain Tennessee Williams?

Bruce S. Ticker October 18, 2016 No Comments

Six decades separate the Broadway debut of Tennessee Williams’ CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF in 1955 from Colin Kaepernick’s boycott of the National Anthem

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Reviews Theater

MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN (Quintessence): Epic theater!

Lisa Panzer October 18, 2016 1 Comment

Quintessence Theatre brings to life a beautifully staged, truly epic production of Bertolt Brecht’s MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN, as brilliantly directed by Alexander Burns.

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Previews

ELECTORAL DYSFUNCTION Returns (no, we don’t mean the Trump campaign)

Smalley Bogg October 17, 2016 No Comments

As the electoral dysfunction of the 2016 presidential campaign nears to a much longed-for close, New York comedy show ELECTORAL DYSFUNCTION returns to Philadelphia for one night only, October 22, 2016, at 9pm.

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Dance Reviews

RUBBERBANDance Group (NextMove Dance): Hip-Hop, beyond borders

Eri Yoneda October 16, 2016 No Comments

Over four decades, NextMove Dance (formerly Dance Affiliates) has led the dance scene in Philadelphia, bringing countless cutting-edge dance companies from around the world. As…

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Features Interviews Theater

Gaslighting Done Right: Interview with the cast of Hedgerow Theatre’s reinvented ANGEL STREET

Henrik Eger October 16, 2016 No Comments

Considering a trimmed, contemporized, and feminized version of a classic British drama

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Dance Reviews

CINDERELLA (PA Ballet): Enchanting ballet magic

Eri Yoneda October 16, 2016 No Comments

The ballet shows the brave and caring intention of artistic director Angel Corella to the company and the Philadelphia ballet fans.

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Features Previews Theater

Dinner Theater, Recooked

Christopher Munden October 12, 2016 No Comments

Irreverent local performers present two strange and sumptuous evenings of independent theater and comedy alongside food and cocktails

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Reviews Theater

A CLOSER WALK WITH PATSY CLINE (BRT): Fall to pieces over Patsy

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper October 11, 2016 No Comments

Someone should sit down and write a dozen Country tunes for Jessica Wagner to record in the style of Patsy Cline.

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Features Interviews Theater

Talking EMPEROR JONES: Interview with the director and cast of O’Neill’s tragedy at the South Camden Theatre Company

Henrik Eger October 11, 2016 2 Comments

Eugene O’Neill’s THE EMPEROR JONES kicks off the South Camden Theatre Company’s Fall season

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Reviews Theater

GROUNDED (InterAct): The killing screens

Christopher Munden October 9, 2016 No Comments

GROUNDED is a tale for our times: war is most hellish when it resembles office life, reality is most profound rendered in pixels.

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Dance Reviews

Pennsylvania Ballet II performs at Culture in the Courtyard

Debra Danese October 9, 2016 No Comments

PB II performed under clear, blue skies, with William Penn as their backdrop

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Reviews Theater

THE BIRDS (Curio): Terror takes flight

Christopher Munden October 8, 2016 No Comments

This adaptation by master Irish playwright Conor McPherson finds its horror in the claustrophobic relationships between its four characters

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Music

Opera in Sketch: BREAKING THE WAVES

Chuck Schultz October 8, 2016 No Comments

This opera was really something else. An adaptation by Mizzy Mazzolli (music) and Royce Vavrek (libretto) of a movie by Lars von Trier.

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Reviews Theater

ELECTRA (Villanova): Sophocles gets electrified

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper October 5, 2016 No Comments

Review of Sophocles’ Electra at Villanova Theatre

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