In Will Arbery’s HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING, four Catholic conservative friends gather at a late-night backyard party in Wyoming, shortly before the 2017 eclipse.…
View More Recording HEROES: Wilma’s Kellie Mecleary talks about producing a digital, site-specific production
Changes are afoot at the Wilma Theater, with Blanka Zizka moving on from her role as sole artistic director after forty years in charge of the company.
View More Considering Wilma’s Next Chapter: Blanka Zizka is joined by three co-directors
The constant menace of teenage ambition hums under the entire production.
View More DANCE NATION (Wilma): What it means to be ferociously pubescent
THERE is not a place on Earth’s map. It is not a poem recital, nor is it a play.
View More THERE (Wilma): 2019 Fringe review
Visually arresting and aurally haunting, THERE makes rarefied language solid and visceral
View More THERE (Wilma): 2019 Fringe review
Revisiting Philly theater history through the eyes of one of its finest critics.
View More Philadelphia theater through the eyes of J. Cooper Robb, Part 2: 2004
What about Shakespeare do we want kids to like?
View More ROMEO AND JULIET (Wilma): Wherefore do Romeo and Juliet?
Ranked list of Philadelphia theaters by seating capacity
View More How Big Is That Theater? Seating capacities of Philadelphia theaters
Civilization has collapsed but The Simpsons is still going.
View More MR BURNS (Wilma): Darkness on the edge of Springfield
PASSAGE reminds sketch artist Chuck Schultz of a painting at the Philadelphia Museum by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
View More Theater in Sketch: PASSAGE (Wilma Theater)
Lorca’s BLOOD WEDDING makes a fitting vehicle for the Wilma Theater in-house troupe.
View More BLOOD WEDDING (Wilma): Movement in the veins
This bountiful menu of music had something for every taste
View More After the O17: A reflection on Opera Philadelphia’s brave endeavor
Here’s everything you need to know about the musical smorgasbord that awaits.
View More Your guide to Opera Philadelphia’s O17 Festival
On August 21, Theatre Philadelphia announced nominees for the 2017 Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre. Established companies led the day.
View More 2017 Barrymore Awards nominations
Opera Philadelphia’s innovative general director previews the upcoming O17 Festival.
View More Opera Innovator: An Interview with David Devan ahead of the O17 Festival
Blanka Zizka boldly steps forth as both debut playwright and seasoned director of the semi-autobiographical ADAPT!
View More ADAPT! (Wilma): On the brink of dawn
Neal Zoren chose his favorite productions, directors, and actors from the last year.
View More Neal Zoren’s BEST OF PHILADELPHIA THEATER, 2016
“We have all the time we ever had.”
View More CONSTELLATIONS (Wilma): Love in the multiverse
Using the endtimes as a backdrop, Andrew Bovell uses the drama within a family’s history as a parallel for the turbulence in humanity’s.
View More WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING (Wilma): How a hard rain’s a gonna fall
“Won’t you follow me down to Baldwin Country? This ain’t your mama’s Baldwin Country.” The show opens with offhand remarks by Stew, a large black…
View More NOTES OF A NATIVE SONG (Stew and Heidi Rodewald): 2016 Fringe review 9