525 stories by "Toby Zinman"
Toby Zinman found THE FAT CAT KILLERS to be a weak satire about desperate workers and the heartlessness of big corporations.
Toby Zinman found EgoPo Classic Theater's THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK an excellent production of a terrible play.
Toby Zinman found nothing funny about these three comedies, despite the production's famous comic playwrights and famous comic actors.A Broadway dud.
This week, 1812 Productions' season opens with Mistakes Were Made, a comic play by Craig Wright that was named "Best of the Year" by both New York and Time magazines in 2010. The producer, a…
The play, at the Arden, is immense not only in its ambitions but also in its length (3½ hours) and in its scope: generations of monsters, each vying for sympathy, understanding, and love,…
Here's a shocker: Good news from Washington. Unlike Congress, three major theaters in D.C. have been winning rave review after rave review, from Wooly Mammoth's Clybourne Park to Kennedy Cen…
Alas, not to mention alack: This summer's production of The Comedy of Errors is embarrassingly amateurish and painfully dull. Everyone speaks very slowly and rhythmically, as if they had mem…
Two delicious and hilarious productions of Much Ado About Nothing are currently playing in London: one at the Globe, where "original practices" rule, and one on the West End, where high prof…
Two delicious and hilarious productions of Much Ado About Nothing are currently playing in London: one at the Globe, where "original practices" rule, and one on the West End, where high prof…
Forrest McClendon, an actor familiar to Philadelphia audiences, is up for a Tony in the daring but star-crossed "The Scottsboro Boys," coming here in 2012.
Vigil, by Morris Panych at Lantern Theater, is about a man waiting for an old woman to finally die. He waits and waits; months go by, the seasons change, and still he waits. Watching Vigil I…
Under Bruce Lumpkin's direction, everyone uses big Broadway voices, straining to create lots of passion and intensity but with few genuine emotional moments. What a waste that Jeff Coons and…
Scott Organ's one-act, Phoenix, which Flashpoint Theatre Company is presenting at the Adrienne, is a painful sort of romantic comedy of contemporary manners. It's not surprising to learn tha…
More nightclub show than theater, My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra is two hours of pure entertainment. There are no big thoughts to think, no complex plot to follow. Just a slew of…
Tony (Angels in America) Kushner has done it again with a rich, nourishing stew that clocks in at just less than four hours. Unlike other family dramas Kushner's revolves around serious, int…
Theatre Exile's Saturn Returns, by Noah Haidle, is a short play about a very long emotion - grief. It's about a man who cannot forget his dead wife and dead daughter, and we watch him endles…
Sharr White's The Other Place by is a terrifying play, illuminated by an astonishing performance by Laurie Metcalf as a middle-aged scientist struggling with dementia.
Stephen Adly Guirgis knows street talk and can write dialogue of astonishingly funny mad-dog ferocity. But somebody has to speak that dialogue onstage, and Chris Rock, the crass standup come…
Wanamaker's Pursuit, a new play by Rogelio Martinez at the Arden Theatre, is the first show of the Paris-themed PIFA (Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts). It is not an auspiciou…
The Pride of Parnell Street at Act II Playhouse in Ambler is a love story. Like so many Irish plays, it's told in monologues, making it seem more like storytelling than like conventional, di…
With so many Irish plays sprouting this spring on Philadelphia stages, a celebration seemed in order. And, sure enough, a festival was born.
Lantern Theater continues its success with Shakespeare by giving us a funny, lusty, rowdy, charming production of A Midsummer Night's Dream directed by Charles McMahon.
