The city's newest stage officially opens Wednesday night in a Center City space with a high ceiling and 100 new seats. It doesn't even have a name yet. But already it has developed a pedigre…
The city's newest stage officially opens Wednesday night in a Center City space with a high ceiling and 100 new seats. It doesn't even have a name yet. But already it has developed a pedigre…
The challenge that choreographer-director Bill T. Jones faced when he tried to contain the vastness of Abraham Lincoln's mythology in a single evening-length work a couple of years ago isn't…
Day by day, day by day, all of Godspell's backers pray: To show St. Matthew clearly. To love new staging dearly. To fill the seats more nearly. Day by day.
So here's a real surprise: On the third floor of Plays and Players Theatre, there's a world premiere by an under-the-radar local playwright -- Joy Cutler -- filled with amateur actors, direc…
Most romantic comedies succeed by indulging fantasy: men want to date out of their league; women want a nice guy they can whip into a socially respectable man. Robin Pond's Even Steven, at t…
Iron Age Theatre presents Ray Saraceni's newest play, an account of the 1925 NFL champion Pottsville Maroons. The show is a win, even in overtime. Review by Wendy Rosenfield
In an unusual turn, the rights to a hot play - Red, which won the best-play Tony on Broadway two years ago - were granted to not one, but two professional theater companies in the wider Phil…
Tui is the Maori name for a black bird with a small white tuft at its throat. When the English came to New Zealand, its native habitat, they named it the parson bird. Tuis are honey eaters; …
It was a dark and stormy night. No, really. So dark and so stormy in the play The Whipping Man, or maybe just in Arden Theatre Company's production of it, that The Constant Metaphor blasts y…
Brat Productions' quick-change romp "Meanwhile ..." show Madi Distefano stretching her writer's chops and a production that has its highs and lows, says critic Jim Rutter.
Come into the cavernous California living room of the well-known Wyeth family, gathering for good tidings at Christmas Eve, 2004. Over here are the parents - he, a former movie star turned p…
Doomed by gender, and by the showier talents of her younger brother, Maria Anna "Nannerl" Mozart was a prodigy herself: composing complex sonatas in her teens, playing the harpsich…
Stroll past many a Philadelphia bus stop and you'll see theater posters bearing the phrase "Directed by Matt Pfeiffer."
It's all by-and-large solid at the Arden, where this intruiging story is frequently absorbing. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews.
Oh, to have been a fly on the wall during rehearsals for the frantic production of The Mystery of Irma Vep, which is unraveling, or detonating, or maybe mushrooming, on the stage of Ambler's…
Dito Van Reigersberg and Luigi Sottile give it all they've got, then come up with some more, in this super-whacko version of "The Mysetery of Irma Vep" at Act II Playhouse. Inquirer theater …
Watching Bruce Graham's absurdist comedy Any Given Monday, now being presented in New York by Ambler's Act II Playhouse, can't help but produce a warm and fuzzy feeling, especially if you're…
Carbon Dance Theatre made its Philadelphia debut Thursday evening at the Performance Garage with Swan Songs, a serious contemporary ballet program that uses the final songs written by classi…
Toby Zinman found THE FAT CAT KILLERS to be a weak satire about desperate workers and the heartlessness of big corporations.
The Tony-winning "Red" is not only playing at Philadelphia Theatre Company, but also at the Shore. Inquirer theatre critic Howard Shapiro reviews from Cape May.
If Shakespeare did not write the plays attributed to him, who then? According to Anonymous, an airless, bilious, endless pageant of pseudohistory, it was Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxf…
YOU DON'T have to know the history of William Shakespeare or the Earl of Oxford to know that "Anonymous" is completely full of beans.