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
A script needs life breathed into it and that’s what happens with an inspired director, designers, and talented versatile actors.
View More MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Lantern): Still a joy
French playwright Edmond Rostand’s story about a brilliant man endowed with a large nose is a work of fiction.
View More Cyrano De Bergerac (Quintessence): 60-second review
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
Shakespeare wrote Twelfth Night (1599-1600), one of his few fantasy plays, immediately before he penned his incomparable Hamlet (1600-1601). As Artistic Director Charles McMahon describes…
View More TWELFTH NIGHT (Lantern): Some are born great
“Shall we set about some revels?” Yes! The battle begins: Lantern Theater Company opened its excellent and enjoyable production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night; soon to…
View More TWELFTH NIGHT (Lantern): Shall we set about some revels?
Terrific actors playing lovable characters, important issues, snappy dialogue, and plenty of comedy
View More CLYDE’S (Arden): All the ingredients are here
Philadelphia Theatre Company’s production of Chelsea Marcantel’s emotional and thought-provoking Everything is Wonderful is gorgeous
View More EVERYTHING IS WONDERFUL (PTC): 60-second review
As Lear, Robert Jason Jackson is “every inch a king.
View More KING LEAR (Quintessence): England at his feet
Looking at Arden Childrens Theater in words and sketch
View More Theater in Sketch: CHARLOTTE’S WEB (Arden Theatre)
Why does SWEAT appeal to us, as aging urban middle-to-upper-to-upper-upper-class theatergoers? Do we hope to understand? Relate? Gawk? What do we applaud?
View More SWEAT (PTC): What’s the matter with Reading?
Henrik Eger talks to actor Amanda Schoonover about Sarah Kane and her career.
View More Theater of the Extreme: Amanda Schoonover looks back on PHAEDRA’S LOVE
Lantern Theater’s production of THE TEMPEST, Shakespeare’s last play, is an enjoyable, modest show, full of comedy and romance and the gentle spirit of human forgiveness.
View More THE TEMPEST (Lantern): Sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not
Quintessence Theatre’s production of WAITING FOR GODOT just closed. Henrik Eger spoke to the director about his background and his experiences directing Samuel Beckett’s classic.
View More Why Wait? Director Ken Marini talks about Quintessence Theatre’s brilliant WAITING FOR GODOT
Quintessence Theatre Group’s WAITING FOR GODOT strikes a balance between humor and pathos, between realism and ridiculousness.
View More WAITING FOR GODOT (Quintessence): Really absurd
Phindie asked this year’s crop of Barrymore Award nominees about their experience of being nominated.
View More 2017 Barrymore nominees: In their own words
The InterAct Theater goes behind the scenes of a working kitchen
View More Theater in Sketch: HOW TO USE A KNIFE (InterAct)
Scene one is hilarious; scene two wipes the smile right off your face.
View More HOW TO USE A KNIFE (InterAct): A sharp new play
A cross-temporal interpretation of Shakespeare’s Elizabethan classic injects passages of current expressions and gestures, slapstick, and original music into the well-known pastoral rom-com.
View More AS YOU LIKE IT (Lantern): As you’ve never seen it!
This not your usual resurrection of the Dracula story of seducing young women to join him in the realm of the undead.
View More DRACULA (Hedgerow): Raising the stakes