One of Shakespeare’s greatest hits, his first comedy, The Comedy of Errors, is playing at the Lantern Theater Company until June 16. Twins, shipwreck, mistaken…
View More THE COMEDY OF ERRORS (Lantern): Twins, shipwreck, mistaken identity, romance gone awry
Before he became a celebrated playwright, Jean-Baptiste Poquelan was a poor thing in a touring shoestring theater company. Although he had wanted to be a…
View More TARTUFFE (Lantern): Delightfully over-the-top
There’s a lot of Twelfth Night going around in the Philadelphia area, all different. The Wilma conjures a fresh seaside setting. A dock moves forward.…
View More TWELFTH NIGHT (Wilma): Beach blanket Bard
“Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines every where.” Leaving Copernicus aside, the Fool’s wry remark is an apt description…
View More TWELFTH NIGHT (Wilma): Foolery shines everywhere
Tom Stoppard’s newest play Leopoldstadt is coming to New York, and once again he is being talked about as if he were the second coming…
View More TRAVESTIES (Lantern): A play of ideas married to farce
Put on your thinking cap if you’re thinking of going to see DESCRIBE THE NIGHT
View More DESCRIBE THE NIGHT (Wilma): Put on your thinking caps
The constant menace of teenage ambition hums under the entire production.
View More DANCE NATION (Wilma): What it means to be ferociously pubescent
THERE is not a place on Earth’s map. It is not a poem recital, nor is it a play.
View More THERE (Wilma): 2019 Fringe review
Visually arresting and aurally haunting, THERE makes rarefied language solid and visceral
View More THERE (Wilma): 2019 Fringe review
Looking at Arden Childrens Theater in words and sketch
View More Theater in Sketch: CHARLOTTE’S WEB (Arden Theatre)
Anaya Strutz puts on an aerial silk performance to create the miraculous spider web that saves Wilbur.
View More Theater in Sketch: CHARLOTTE’S WEB (Arden)
WOLFCRUSH misses the no-holds-barred humor, shock value, and pop culture-infused insight into youth culture of playwright Haygen-Brice Walker’s previous Fringe entries
View More WOLFCRUSH: a queer werewolf play (On the Rocks): 2018 Fringe review
On the Rocks trust the process.
View More Werewolves, Mimosas, and Late Night Fringe: ON THE ROCKS Uncorks its Latest Show
Lorca’s BLOOD WEDDING makes a fitting vehicle for the Wilma Theater in-house troupe.
View More BLOOD WEDDING (Wilma): Movement in the veins
On the Rocks proves you can dismantle the master’s house with his tools.
View More THE GROOM’S A FAG; THE BRIDE’S A CUNT; THE BEST MAN’S A WHORE; AND THE MAIDEN OF HONOR (JUST) HUNG HERSELF IN THE CLOSET (On the Rocks): 2017 Fringe review
Cameron Kelsall has some ideas for the new executive director.
View More How should Philadelphia Theatre Company rebrand itself?
Blanka Zizka boldly steps forth as both debut playwright and seasoned director of the semi-autobiographical ADAPT!
View More ADAPT! (Wilma): On the brink of dawn
Neal Zoren chose his favorite productions, directors, and actors from the last year.
View More Neal Zoren’s BEST OF PHILADELPHIA THEATER, 2016
Act II Playhouse gets all dramatic with Theresa Rebeck’s MAURITIUS
View More MAURITIUS (Act II): Feeling the philatelia
Haygen Brice Walker doesn’t aim for subtlety in the roasting humor of both Millennial political correctness and stereotypical southern backwardness, but he finds rich veins of comedy in his broad mine
View More BIRDIE’S PIT STOP (On the Rocks): 2016 Fringe review 53