Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional detective stories are well suited to stage, with strong characters, a firm setting, and delicious plot lines.
View More Sherlock Holmes at Home in Northwest Philadelphia: THE VALLEY OF FEAR at the Ebeneezer Maxwell MansionTag: Josh Hitchens
Making Dreams Happen: The closing of the Shubin Theatre
The much-loved little Shubin Theatre is closing. Rich Rubin shares his memories and thoughts.
View More Making Dreams Happen: The closing of the Shubin TheatreSTOKER’S DRACULA (Josh Hitchens): 60-second review
Josh Hitchens delivers a spine-chilling tour de force in his solo dramatization of one of the world’s most terrifying horror stories.
View More STOKER’S DRACULA (Josh Hitchens): 60-second reviewTILL BIRNAM WOOD (John Schultz): Fringe Review 30
One way to focus on the extraordinary eloquence and drama of Shakespeare’s language is to eliminate all visual distraction, and that is precisely what John Schultz has done in TILL BIRNAM WOOD—a rapid-fire 55-minute adaptation of Macbeth that is performed before a blindfolded audience.
View More TILL BIRNAM WOOD (John Schultz): Fringe Review 30SOME ARE PEOPLE (Quince, GayFest! 2014): Summer loving is no drag
SOME ARE PEOPLE is about summer people. Those people who come into our lives for a time and then go back to wherever they came from, leaving us changed forever.
View More SOME ARE PEOPLE (Quince, GayFest! 2014): Summer loving is no dragA DOLL’S HOUSE (Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion): 60-second review
It’s hard to imagine a better set design for Henrik Ibsen’s devastating feminist classic than the living room of the Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion Victorian House…
View More A DOLL’S HOUSE (Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion): 60-second reviewConor McPherson’s The Weir: Subtlety and the Supernatural at the Curio Theatre
Irish playwright Conor McPherson has been called the “finest dramatist of his generation” (London Telegraph) with works that are “as near to perfection as a play can come”…
View More Conor McPherson’s The Weir: Subtlety and the Supernatural at the Curio Theatre