302 stories by "Tim Dunleavy"
A.R. Gurney's tale of a dog and her owners blends a clever approach with recognizable situations and characters, and, for the most part, the dialogue and the plot feel natural and believable.
"Elephant Room," "A Paper Garden" and "In the Blood."
"Twelfth Night," "Lady M," and "How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found."
After a dozen years of serving up gag-a-minute comedies, "The Good Doctor" was something else altogether: a series of sketches adapted from Anton Chekhov short stories.
Last summer, the Classical Acting Academy of the Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre presented a vibrant, exciting version of Henry V that was one of the season's highlights. This summer, a new…
Erin spoke to me about “Broadway Saturdays,” her upcoming movies, raising two girls, and other things that keep her busy and happy.
Photo coverage of this year's awards honoring the best of the Philadelphia theater scene.
Norristown's Theatre Horizon is presenting its annual Shakespeare in the Park series, once again performed in various public parks throughout suburban Philadelphia. This year's offering is A…
The show is about relationships—why men and women are different and why they see the world differently.
In Long Story Short, comedian Colin Quinn aims to prove that, despite what you may have heard, the world is not in decline; human nature has always been the same throughout history. There's …
At first, Willey's biggest problem is how to deal with a Russian (Jeff Berry) who is apparently a graduate of the Basil Fawlty School for Bumbling Foreign Waiters. But then we learn that Wil…
Imagine Wile E. Coyote as played by Paul Lynde, and you may get an idea of what Kemp is like. (Except Messrs. Lynde and Coyote were much funnier.)
Art, Yasmina Reza's comedy about three friends and the artwork that comes between them, has been a staple of stages worldwide for over a decade now, and it's easy to see why: it's funny, it …
Rob McClure, fresh off his winning lead performances in Amadeus at the Walnut and Where's Charley? at City Center Encores!, once again shows off his singular talent for clowning. His tuxedo-…
At Bristol Riverside Theatre, this spring's musical attraction is Little Women, an adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel which had a Broadway run in 2005. BRT's production is bless…
Hell is a new stage version of a 1908 novel by Henri Barbusse which was one of the biggest selling and most celebrated French novels of its age. But whatever power it may have had on the pag…
Theatre Horizon's production isn't without its bumps, but it works, thanks largely to a well-written script and two excellent lead performances.
Amaryllis Theatre Company's production is blessed by several strong performances. But for every poetic, lyrical speech in Solis' play, there's another that is embarrassingly overwritten. And…
The first act works better than the second, but both acts are well-crafted and rewarding, skillfully balancing comedy with tragedy and benefitting from complex, fully-developed characters an…
Martinez has a lot to say, and says it quite well"but so many of the speeches are fraught with meaning and symbolism that the play's efforts to tell us something important can seem obvious a…
According to Leo Tolstoy, "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Andrew Bovell's play Speaking in Tongues seems determined to prove virtually the opp…
Irish playwright Sebastian Barry's The Pride of Parnell Street walks a fine line between brutality and sentimentality, viewing Ireland's problems through the prism of a troubled married coup…
Losing the Shore is a new play by Catherine Rush which asks the question, "In 1953, when the then-recently defeated presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson boarded an ocean liner to take a cr…
Jeff Key was 34 years old when he enlisted in the Marines in 2000, driven by his patriotism and outraged by the attack on the USS Cole. Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for that attack, yet w…
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