Reaching middle age and beyond has long been a topic for popular commentary on the human condition, from the commonplace that "Growing old isn't bad when you consider the alternative" to Bet…
Wilmington's City Theater Company once again affirms its status as the go-to regional venue for youth-driven musicals, with its one-week run of Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical. S…
In 2006, Pete Pryor won the Barrymore Award for Leading Actor in a Play for his stellar portrayal of the titular character in Richard III at Lantern Theater Company. Now a decade later, he i…
When the Philadelphia Artists' Collective (PAC) decided to schedule He Who Gets Slapped for its mainstage production of spring 2016, the all-classics company recognized the opportunity it of…
Sir John Falstaff would be proud! Manayunk Theatre Company's one-night script-in-hand-and-beer-in-the-other-hand staged reading of A Midsummer Night's Dream was the sixth in its quarterly Sh…
There's nothing like a door-slammer farce for pure escapist fun and Bristol Riverside Theatre's production of Neil Simon's Rumors provides just that. When the show premiered in 1988, the pla…
Shakespeare's bloody history of Richard III, presented in a stunning production at People's Light and Theatre Company, is filled with blind ambition, violent power struggles, and remorseless…
A multi-level set of wooden platforms and beams, crates and barrels, chopped birch logs and an axe, a butter churn, milk can, and a jug of corn whisky thrust you into the rustic world of App…
If your best friends' husbands were cheating on them, would you tell them? Or would you tell everyone else? The second installment of EgoPo Classic Theater's 2015-16 "Season of American Gian…
What's a countess to do? Should the young widow, Countess Madeleine, marry the poet Olivier or the composer Flamand? Such is the dilemma of Richard Strauss's final opera, Capriccio–a c…
A multiple Barrymore Award winner, Liz Filios has twice been recognized as Best Actress in a Musical for her lead roles in Midsummer [a play with songs] at Inis Nua Theatre Company in …
Known for his bold cutting-edge artistry and glam-rock/drag personae, Erik Ransom commands the stage as a singer, musician, and actor, and behind the scenes as a composer, lyricist, and play…
Diskit (Anna Zaida Szapiro) is a high-school junior and a wiz at chemistry; Riley (Mary Tuomanen) is a senior in a heavy metal band who is failing her chemistry class. When Diskit ("It's a f…
From the British Invasion to the Psychedelic Sixties, the Fab Four from Liverpool defined the music and lifestyle of the watershed decade of our post-modern era. Rain: A Tribute to the Beatl…
Charles Frazier's 1997 award-winning best-selling debut novel, adapted into an Oscar-winning feature film starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, and Renée Zellweger in 2003, is now a new America…
First performed in 1836, The Government Inspector–playwright Nikolai Gogol's unrelenting farce on socio-political corruption in Imperial Russia–has long been considered an import…
Dismal, drab, and grimy, the site-specific setting of Iron Age Theatre's Philadelphia premiere of Dogfall in the subterranean space of The Power Plant, sparsely furnished with two metal cots…
Is there a more relevant topic in contemporary America, while gun control is being hotly debated by the presidential candidates, Congress, and the voting populace, than a look at gun violenc…
So what if he's invisible? He's still the best friend and constant companion of the lovably eccentric tippler Elwood P. Dowd in Harvey, a delightful revival of Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize-wi…
Once is not your usual Broadway musical. From the moment you enter the theater, the inventive staging immediately breaks through the proverbial fourth wall, as you are physically drawn into …