289 stories from City Paper (Philadelphia)
Edward Albee's The Zoo Story - America's most famous one-act - just turned 50. But Zoo wears its years lightly.
Wozzeck strikes a chord in our Great Recession.
David Harrower's Blackbird
Stephen Sondheim opens up to the unlikeliest of collaborators.
One might expect a play set during South Africa's apartheid system of separating and subjugating natives would feel dated, given today's democratic reforms. But Athol Fugard's work remains c…
Something wicked this way comes: Q&As with the heavy hitters of Bristol Riverside Theatre's What You Will
At Bristol Riverside Theatre, the Bard gets hip to hip-hop.
In Daniel Beaty's patriarch-focused Resurrection, five men and one boy fulfill, rather than negate, stereotypes.
Chatting - and cursing heavily - with Pearce Bunting.
Pearce Bunting's latest role at Theatre Exile has him believing.
Hedda's real tragedy is that she's more conventional than she wants to be. These wretched men in their different ways are still in control of her mind and heart. Hedda may be bossy and angry…
This is a marvelous evening of theater: intimate, sincere, magical. If it inspires theatergoers to read Chaim Potok and readers to attend plays, then it will be doubly successful.
Cherry Bomb
Roy Smiles' Schmucks
Dark Play or Stories for Boys at Theatre Exile
The cast includes Faith Prince, one of our greatest stage actors, a woman who embodies her characters with such luminous realness that she seems to be doing almost nothing. Aspiring performe…
Here, the topical treatment is iconic and sweeping. There are too many obvious metaphors and too much one-dimensional character writing.
I thought Prince's mission was to cultivate interesting new work. Nothing here qualifies.
Supporting performances, particularly by Mary McCool as a frisky academic and Ryan Farley as Jan's closest friend, emphasize the human dimensions of a typically dizzying Stoppard script.
A list of seminal shows that opened in Philadelphia theaters.
The local scene is thriving, so why are our grand old stages left waiting in the wings?
Jamaica - it's a play! Hooray, play!
The Arden's Our Town revival is overwrought.
Bill Irwin's dazzling, joyful The Happiness Lecture grabbed me (and I'm known to be unrepentantly mime-averse and clown-o-phobic), and kept me spellbound for 80 minutes.
