While effort to thoughtfully examine the text is matched by a respect for the play as ghost story and psychological thriller, neither constitutes a consistent or unifying vision, and the pla…
What is it about the word "Brechtian" that makes me want to reach for a gun?
Sans her longtime collaborator, Blanka Zizka takes on a new partner: Shakespeare.
It's a small miracle that Kander and Ebb's Curtains ever made it to Broadway.
Hollinger's intimate, powerful work — given a superb Arden Theatre Co. production by director Jim Christy — uses supernatural mystery to explore creative inspiration.
With a hefty grant from Temple, a fledgling theater company gets its wings.
Swellco & Swellco are biting chickens and killing hookers at the end of the world.
A new wave of theater bucks the economic trend.
Hats off to Arden Theatre " with Stick Fly following its highly praised production of Parade, and its Hamilton Family Arts Center soon to open down the block, this company is firing on all c…
The ballsy title suggests there will not be much beating around the bush (OK, I'll stop now), but in the end, Cock is surprisingly tame.
Both prove eminently watchable, and the rotation provides extra benefits. If you see one, be sure to see the other; repertory celebrates actors' talents, showcasing them playing two disparat…
Inis Nua produces the American premiere of Phil Porter's gentle and sweet play, which previously was well-received at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Curio's "lesbian" Romeo and Juliet"in which a woman plays Romeo not as a pants role but as an actual female character"will disappoint those expecting an overt political statement.
Equal parts sketch comedy and interactive drinking game, Bye Bye Liver is the kind of performance that speaks to folks who are more comfortable sidling up to the bar than being ushered to a …
Fringe has been evolving steadily since its beginnings as a five-day theater, dance, music and visual-art festival in Old City. It's grown in performances, days and locations, bursting out o…
More than 20 faces stare up at Aaron Cromie, each frozen into an exaggerated, often grotesque expression. One registers surprise, another dismay, still others confusion, elation or outrage. …
InterAct's Some Other Kind of Person sometimes hits the target on self-interested Helping The Less Fortunate.
For a couple weeks now, I've been Ice-packing about what Philly's top-notch theater lasses will be up to in the immediate future. Deborah Block " one of the Fringe Fest's original fire-start…
EgoPo's controversial casting swap of black and white actors turns out a drab gray.
When A Little Night Music premiered on Broadway in 1973, it took Sondheim fans by surprise. The composer-lyricist was famous as an acerbic observer of contemporary life; this show's period s…
Classic wrestling " with its iconic costumed characters, frothing proclamations and cartoonish violence " seems a tired topic for satire. And, in fact, that's not Adam Rapp's intention in Am…
The script of BDSM fantasia Venus In Fur only goes skin deep.
A white Mammy. A black Simon Legree. Is Philly ready?
Mark Cofta reviews Heroes at the Lantern.
David Anthony Fox reviews Robert O'Hara's very adult play.