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Completeness is an ironic title since the characters are notably incomplete. This 2011 play by the talented Itamar Moses is newly revised and is directed by Matt Pfeiffer for Theatre Exile i…
She Loves Me. Music & lyrics by Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick. Directed by Matthew Decker for Villanova University Theater through November 18, 2018. She Loves Me is a unique…
The Manor. On-site production at Greystone Hall, West Chester, PA through November 18, 2018. This is a return of a production we recommended one year ago when it had its East Coast pr…
One of America’s favorite Thanksgiving traditions is coming back to Oaks, Pennsylvania. The National Dog Show will be returning yet again to the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oak…
Happy Birthday Wanda June by Kurt Vonnegut, directed by Jeff Wise for Wheelhouse Theatre Company at the Duke on 42nd Street, New York, through November 29, 2018. The novelist Kurt Von…
Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, music & lyrics by Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman, plus songs by Anthony Newley & Leslie Bricusse. Philadelphia Academy of M…
A Human Being Died That Night by Nicholas Wright, based on a book by Pulma Gobodo-Madikizela. EgoPo Classic Theater through November 11, 2018. www.egopo.org/201819festival It's extrem…
Fiddler on the Roof, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, book by Joseph Stein. Directed by Bartlett Sher. National tour production in Philadelphia through October 28, 2018. …
Collected Stories by Donald Margulies, Jessica Bedford directed. Through November 18, 2018, at Act II Playhouse, 56 E. Butler Avenue, Ambler, PA Donald Margulies's play, Collected Sto…
Sweat, by Lynn Nottage. Philadelphia Theatre Company, October 2018. Lynn Nottage's play comes bearing decorations from award committees. Thus it seemed like a great choice to re-open …
The Glow: A Jack-o-Lantern Experience has come to Philadelphia and it's a highlight among fall events. The Glow is essentially an outdoor exhibit in Fairmount Park that showcases hundreds of…
The True, by Sharr White, directed by Scott Elliott for The New Group, through October 28, 2018 at The Pershing Square Signature Center in New York. The True is a political drama " bu…
Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein. Quintessence Theatre Group’s Sedgwick Theatre, 7137 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia, through October 21, 2018. Many of us think we know the story …
Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O'Neill. EgoPo Classic Theater, October 2018. The 2018-19 season of EgoPo Classic Theater is devoted to the theater of South Africa. This genre has bee…
The Nap. Manhattan Theatre Club production at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, New York. October 2018. The Nap, recently opened at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Broadway, will cert…
Once, music by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, book by Enda Walsh, directed by Terrence J. Nolen. Arden Theatre, Philadelphia, September 2018. For the second time this year, Ter…
Holiday Inn by Irving Berlin. Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, September 2018. Holiday Inn has been pleasing audiences since its original movie version in 1942. It was adapted f…
The King and I by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II. Lincoln Center production directed by Bartlett Sher. June 2016. IN MEMORY OF MARIN MAZZIE, WE ARE RE-RUNNING THIS REVIEW …
Biloxi Blues by Neil Simon. Tony Braithwaite directs at Act II Playhouse, Ambler, PA, through September 30, 2018. This production of Biloxi Blues is the perfect memorial to Neil Simon…
Woody Sez: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie. Peoples Light & Theater Company, Malvern, PA, August 2018. Our nation was lucky to have Woody Guthrie as an inspiration during two…
Tommy and Me, by Ray Didinger, directed by Joe Canuso. World premiere by Theatre Exile, Philadelphia, 2016; revived at Media Theater, Media PA, August 2018. This successful theater pi…
On the Exhale by Martin Zimmerman, Theater With a View, Pottstown PA, July 2018. On the Exhale is a disturbing play. It's a great vehicle for its solo performer, in this case Nina Cov…
Tuesdays With Morrie. Act II Playhouse, Ambler Pennsylvania through July 29, 2018. The memoir called Tuesdays With Morrie is famed for its portrait of a real-life inspirational profes…
Volta by Cirque du Soleil, Greater Philadelphia Expo Center at Oaks, Pennsylvania, through August 19, 2018. The word volta means a turn in time, or a return. Cirque du Soleil says tha…
The transcendent talent of Oscar Hammerstein II was displayed in a one-night-only event June 23 at Bucks County Playhouse, near the farm where Hammerstein lived. This was a semi-staged conce…
