In opening scenes three Weird Sisters, witches, brew evil in a pot using scarce ingredients like eye of newt. They cherry pick the future for Macbeth with oracular accuracy, giving over the goods while leaving out important elements.
View More MACBETH (Lantern): Dancing, singing… and murder
Adapted by Patrick Barlow from the novel by John Buchan and the movie by Alfred Hitchcock
View More THE 39 STEPS (Lantern): Hitchcock onstage
Warning: These seven marvelous actors in the all female cast, are not your nice Aunt Sara. Wild and untamed, they’re women without borders. Stepping out…
View More POTUS (Arden): Brash and in your face
Now this is what a collective can do: a huge cast all so attuned to each others’ idiosyncrasies that they might as well be the household they are portraying.
View More CHILDREN OF THE SUN (PAC): A knockout contemporary production of a rarely seen classic
This is not the admiring smirk or a contemptuous Ha-ha!, but fall-off-your-chair, eye-mopping hilarity.
View More THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (1812): Fall-off-your-chair hilarity
A movie about the socially distanced Pageant Wagon that toured West Philly this Fall.
View More Shakespeare in Clark Park revisits its theater for Every Everyman
Matt Pfeiffer talks love of Shakespeare and SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
View More Bringing Shakespeare to Life: Interview with director Matt Pfeiffer about SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (People’s Light)
Anna Moench’s new, short, fascinating play is not to be missed.
View More MAN OF GOD (InterAct): Worthy of praise
PAC makes waves with a solid classic comedy with simplistic use of physicality and inventive fight choreography.
View More THE SEA VOYAGE (PAC): 2019 Fringe review
Adventure, reunion, and love intertwine to create a scrappy maritime tale of marauding and romance.
View More THE SEA VOYAGE (PAC): 2019 Fringe review
Henrik Eger greets international Fringe artists.
View More A Welcome to the International Artists at the 2019 Fringe Festival
Philadelphia Artists’ Collective hits the water with another Fringe gem.
View More Fringe preview: Sail away with the PAC
Henrik Eger thought he knew MOBY-DICK until he saw Robert Smythe as Ahab.
View More “Passionate iconoclast and maverick”: Interview with Robert Smythe, Ahab in Hedgerow’s MOBY-DICK
Stepping back to a Victorian workhouse with Quintessence Theatre Group.
View More OLIVER! (Quintessence): Eat gruel, get pickpocketed, and become an orphan