On the day I finally got around to watching Tár, Alpha Classics released a new collection of chamber music performed by virtuoso violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaya…
View More Tár (dir. Todd Field): Film review
Charles P. Way says he is “elated” to be on the first national tour of Jagged Little Pill. The UArts grad will return to Philly as a…
View More “You Oughta Know”: Interview with Jagged Little Pill’s Charles P. Way
Adrienne Kennedy’s crushingly beautiful play, Ohio State Murders, is making a long overdue debut on Broadway.
View More [NYC] OHIO STATE MURDERS: Still experimental, still challenging, and still exciting controversy
This new musical comedy, a Big Broadway rewrite of the 1959 classic movie, Some Like it Hot, offers fabulosity: huge production numbers, flashy costumes, marvelous…
View More [NYC] SOME LIKE IT HOT: Irony-free goodness
The Crucible, has withstood all manner of productions, from starry Broadway to high school drama club, and it will withstand Sarah Ruhl’s crass replay, Becky Nurse of Salem
View More [NYC] BECKY NURSE OF SALEM (Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center)
Bassist Adam Kubota is enjoying life on tour with Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox. The band performs today’s pop hits in the style of yesterday’s classics.…
View More All About the Bass: Interview with Adam Kubota of Postmodern Jukebox
Where are the great acts I remembered? The trained cats? the galloping horses? the iron men? the Wheel of Death?
View More BIG APPLE CIRCUS: A dilettante at large review
Alabama native Garrett Turner is playing Ike Turner in the national tour of Tina: The Tina Turner Musical.
View More Playing Ike: Interview with actor Garrett Turner of Tina: The Tina Turner Musical
Scott Greer has the audience suffering with him, then happy for him. It seems this story could have been his personal history. He owns it that much.
View More Every Brilliant Thing (Arden Theatre Company): 60-second review
Boisterous, joyful, defiant, and a little bawdy, the show may have a sketchy contraption of a plot, but you don’t go to a musical expecting Hamlet.
View More The Tattooed Lady (Philadelphia Theatre Company): Tattoo as metaphor, tattoo as tattoo
“We are together.” This line is an often-repeated refrain in Death of a Driver, a grim new play by Will Snider presented by InterAct at the Drake’s Proscenium…
View More DEATH OF A DRIVER (InterAct): Years pass, roads are built, potholes appear
It’s hard to pinpoint exactly why My Policeman doesn’t resonate as deeply as it should. Director Michael Grandage and writer Ron Nyswaner’s adaptation of Bethan…
View More My Policeman (dir. Michael Grandage): Film review
Q: How do you say schmaltz in French? A: Les Miserables. This long musical melodrama, based on Victor Hugo’s long novelistic melodrama is currently wowing…
View More LES MISERABLES (National Tour): How do you say schmaltz in French?
Faced with bureaucratic nonsense or official missteps, who hasn’t said ‘fuck the government’ or a more genteel equivalent? The multi-ethnic East African Kenya Colony gained independence in…
View More DEATH OF A DRIVER (InterAct): 60-second review
Scott Greer returns to Arden Theatre this month to reprise his role in Every Brilliant Thing. The local actor is no stranger to the Philadelphia…
View More A Brilliant Role: Interview with actor Scott Greer
Anna Faye Lieberman gives us the raging, disappointed, self-indicting, violent, drunk, lonely, and altogether wild-hearted Mary
View More 10 DATES WITH MAD MARY (Inis Nua): Irish charm at Fergies Pub
Steve Czarnecki says he is thrilled to be back on the barricade with the touring cast of Les Miserables. Steve not only plays an ensemble…
View More One Day More: Interview with Les Misérables’ Steve Czarnecki
If Black Lodge is any indication of what the afterlife has in store for us then I would encourage you all to repent immediately—that is,…
View More BLACK LODGE (Opera Philadelphia): Beautiful, unsettling, and thrilling
Modigliani at the Barnes Foundation is a ravishing exhibition in a ravishing venue.
View More MODIGLIANI UP CLOSE at the Barnes: A dilettante at large reviews
Tennessee Williams had been writing since he was a teenager, and by the time he was 30 years old he was getting nowhere. His early…
View More THE GLASS MENAGERIE (Arden): Revisiting the famed memory play