Summer Stage, one of the largest draws for young theater artists on the East coast: Interview with founding executive and artistic director Harry Dietzler
View More Filling the World with Love and Theater: Interview with Harry Dietzler of Upper Darby Summer StageTag: Julia Poiesz
NICE WORK on a Summer Stage
The Upper Darby Summer Stage just opened its 2016 season with an entertaining Gershwin farce.
View More NICE WORK on a Summer StageTHE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (Lantern): 60-second review
The adaptation appropriates the ludicrous plot points and outlandish characters in Arthur Conan Doyle’s opus for a fast and fun theatrical comedy.
View More THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (Lantern): 60-second reviewAND THEN THERE WERE NONE (Walnut): Ten little soldier boys having lots of fun
Agatha Christie has always been a theatrical guilty pleasure, like sitting down with a nice genre book or singing along to top 40
View More AND THEN THERE WERE NONE (Walnut): Ten little soldier boys having lots of funA LIFE IN THE THEATRE (Walnut): 60-second review
David Mamet’s amusing A LIFE IN THE THEATRE uses the simple interplay of two actors backstage at a repertory company, to talk about life outside the theater.
View More A LIFE IN THE THEATRE (Walnut): 60-second reviewXANADU (Mazeppa Productions): A campy, aMUSEing musical
Zeus has decreed that Muses from Mount Olympus are not allowed to fall in love with mortals – that includes the Muse Clio and a boy from Venice Beach. Therein lies a story of forbidden love, gumption, and sly swipes at certain Hollywood movies — especially XANADU (Universal Pictures, 1980).
View More XANADU (Mazeppa Productions): A campy, aMUSEing musicalXANADU (Mazeppa Productions): A Flop of a Film, but a Smash of a Show!
Greek mythology meets roller-disco in XANADU, a spirited send-up of American pop culture circa 1980, based on the preposterous movie of the same name starring Olivia Newton-John. Mazeppa’s exuberant production of the award-winning musical-comedy (book by Douglas Carter Beane, music and lyrics by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar) delivers an uproarious parody of both disco culture and the cult-classic film.
View More XANADU (Mazeppa Productions): A Flop of a Film, but a Smash of a Show!AVENUE Q (Mazeppa): A puppet oasis in the summer heat
Rob Henry and Brian Seaman, founders of Mazeppa Productions, the newest resident musical theater company in Philadelphia, offer an oasis of entertainment in the Sahara…
View More AVENUE Q (Mazeppa): A puppet oasis in the summer heat