RED, not to be confused with REDS, is a color, not a Commie. It refers to the impression given by one of ten huge canvases…
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THE LEHMAN TRILOGY (Arden): A play in three acts
A tale about cotton, Civil War, commodities, finance, and wealth told through the story of three brothers and the company they found.
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THE FLATLANDERS (1812 Productions): Couples theater can be couples therapy
Real-life married couple Scott Greer and Jennifer Childs play a fictitious couple in Bruce Graham’s newest play.
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ASSASSINS (Arden): A celebration of psychopaths
The wall of the F. Otto Haas Stage features pictures of targets and X’s for murdered presidents. Starting with John Wilkes Booth’s killing of Abraham…
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TWELFTH NIGHT (Lantern): Some are born great
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…
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TWELFTH NIGHT (Lantern): Shall we set about some revels?
“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…
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THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (1812): Fall-off-your-chair hilarity
This is not the admiring smirk or a contemptuous Ha-ha!, but fall-off-your-chair, eye-mopping hilarity.
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CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (Walnut Street Theatre): A thinking play
Introducing Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as “a thinking play,” Tennessee Williams wrote to his audiences: “I want to go on talking to you…
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LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS (Walnut): Feeling nostalgic?
Are you missing those bad hairdos and baggy blue suits of 1969?
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Every Brilliant Thing (Arden Theatre Company): 60-second review
Scott Greer has the audience suffering with him, then happy for him. It seems this story could have been his personal history. He owns it that much.
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A Brilliant Role: Interview with actor Scott Greer
Scott Greer returns to Arden Theatre this month to reprise his role in Every Brilliant Thing. The local actor is no stranger to the Philadelphia…
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INTO THE WOODS (Arden): A Sondheim show for grown-ups
No woods. No cutesy pop-up book set. Just three hours of pure musical theater pleasure: gorgeous melodies, clever lyrics, profound ideas and a dream cast.…
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Lantern Theater’s Brave Return to Stage: A Man For All Seasons
What a brave return to live theater this production is! Lantern Theater Company gives us old-time drama and powerful theater, full of big ideas and complex language, rather than a bit of fluff to amuse or console us. With a top-notch cast and clever direction by Peter DeLaurier, it’s a heady three hours.
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Reading Every Play That Won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama
WHY MARRY? by Jesse Lynch Williams (1918): Chosen by Committee Episode 1
Beginning a discussion of every play which won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama
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A DOLL’S HOUSE (Arden): Ibsen for our times
A timelessly relevant damnation of our human falsehoods is also an au courant commentary on sexism.
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EVERY BRILLIANT THING (Arden): Scott Greer in an entertaining, painful, life-enhancing play
To balance the traumas of life—from a difficult childhood through a challenging adulthood—a man writes down every brilliant thing, every wish he can think of.
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A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM (Walnut): A funny thing is happening now at the Walnut
Sondheim’s classic musical in a new production is directed by Frank Ferrante.
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A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM (Walnut Street Theatre): 60-second review
The promise of “something for everyone” is both too little and too much.
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2017 Barrymore nominees: In their own words
Phindie asked this year’s crop of Barrymore Award nominees about their experience of being nominated.
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