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Pennsylvania ballet artistic director Angel Corella is making plans for the company's next step, onto stages beyond the U.S. But it's going to need some new partners. Camille Bacon-Smith con…
Philadelphia Theatre Company's 'The Bridges of Madison County' swells with treacly sentimentality. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Inis Nua Theatre Company deftly and delicately handles the cycle of poverty in this two-actor show. Jill Ivey reviews.
The collaboratively-written world premiere of 'We'll Sleep When We're Dead' is entertaining and unabashedly queer, but it falls a little short in the dystopia department. Jill Ivey reviews.
Curio Theatre Company's 'Three Sisters, by RashDash, After Chekhov' interrogates theatrical traditions and gendered expectations. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Contemporary playwright Chelsea Marcantel assays the great George Bernard Shaw for 'Saint Joan,' now onstage at Delaware Theatre Company. Gail Obenreder reviews.
South Camden Theatre Company ably pairs 'The Duck Variations' and 'The Dumb Waiter,' early-career successes for David Mamet and Harold Pinter. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
The boundaries between fantasy and reality blur too frequently in Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium's 'Dream Girl.' Cameron Kelsall reviews.
'Clown Sex Ed' by Tribe of Fools combines comedy with the birds and the bees. Alix Rosenfeld reviews.
An aquatically named world-premiere play addresses the fluid nature of attraction and identity. Joseph Myers reviews.
'Cana of Galilee,' the latest DIY offering from Kensington's Hella Fresh Theater, considers growth and grief with surprising power. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
EgoPo Classic Theater powerfully explores the doomed Prozorov sisters, and the future of South Africa, in Reza de Wet's 'Three Sisters Two.' Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Temple Theaters revives 'Fabulation, or, the Re-Education of Undine,' an early Lynn Nottage play that nods to 19th-century sentimental fiction. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
The important themes of 'Hype Man: A Break Beat Play,' at InterAct Theatre Company, too often get lost in the musical shuffle. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
With all the big ideas and Very Important Art flying around out there, sometimes we need to just take a seat and laugh, and the Walnut's 'Comedy of Tenors' is waiting. Jill Ivey reviews.
'Awake and Sing!,' too often written off as a Depression-era period piece, becomes a poignant and timely experience in the American winter of 2019. Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer reviews.
Into the 21st-century woods we go with the Resident Ensemble Players' premiere of 'Minor Fantastical Kingdoms' at the University of Delaware. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Timeless and timely, 'Ragtime' reinforces its status as a great American musical in Eagle Theatre's fine production. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Like its octogenarian protagonist, 'On Golden Pond,' now onstage at Bristol Riverside Theatre, shows its age. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
'74 Seconds…To Judgment,' at the Arden Theatre Company, joins the pantheon of political plays that ask tough questions and reject easy answers. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Longstanding multicultural friendships at a steel factory in Reading, PA are put to the test when the forces of deindustrialization pit one worker against another in Lynn Nottage's 'Sweat.' …
With strong performances and creative staging, the Walnut Street Theatre's production of Oleanna is " sadly " as relevant in 2019 as the play's original production was in 1992. Jill Ivey rev…
With its new adaptation of 'Romeo and Juliet,' the Wilma Theater promises to reimagine Shakespeare as something leaner, hipper, and more modern than ever before. Alaina Johns reviews.
Two River Theater's production of 'Noises Off,' Michael Frayn's durable backstage comedy, works too hard and achieves too little. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
'The Niceties,' a thrilling new play at McCarter Theatre Center, considers academic freedom across a racial and generational divide. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
