Monday, May 25, 2015
Arden Theatre production tackles a tough topic with great dialogue, acting.
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 05:58PMPlaywright Jeffrey Hatcher is responsible for a wealth of entertaining plays: the theatrical Compleat Female Stage Beauty, the amusing story of homicide among the elderly Murderers, and Thre…
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 05:58PMCarrie is fun, but Brat Productions lacks its usual fire.
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 05:58PMThe Arden Theatre Company opens the season on its F. Otto Haas Stage with a disappointing production of Bertolt Brecht’s and Kurt Weill’s play with music The Threepenny Opera.
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 05:58PMA lot happens in the four-act play, but little changes—but under Kathryn MacMillan’s direction in a powerfully affecting production by Lantern Theater Company, inertia has never …
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 05:58PMBroadway smash The 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee is something less than smashing in a new co-production between New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse and Philadelphia Theatre Company on …
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 05:58PMTheater is one of the live arts, but you would barely know it from Amaryllis Theatre Company’s sobering production of celebrated Irish playwright Conor McPherson’s Dublin Carol.
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 05:58PMJorge Cousineau has never appeared onstage or uttered a single word in front of an audience. But that doesn’t stop him from being our runaway choice for PW ’s 2010 Philadelphia T…
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 05:58PMLantern Theater Company contributes to the Philadelphia Irish Theatre Festival with its entertaining production of Martin McDonagh’s darkly funny and slightly gruesome...
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 05:58PMRace isn’t Mamet’s finest play, but at PTC it is certainly interesting, and offers a compelling look at America’s racial divide.
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 05:58PMFor all the emotional angst conjured by Gonglewski and Hissom, the best moments in the production involve the quiet passage of time.
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 05:58PMMcDonagh’s dark comedy may not be the funniest play ever written but it’s not far behind.
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 05:58PMThursday, July 18, 2013
Let’s look back at the top shows, performances and designs from a year in local theater that, by almost any measure, was a smashing success.
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 10:58AMWednesday, June 12, 2013
The Arden Theatre concludes its season with Stephen Sondheim’s timeless A Little Night Music, one of the finest shows in the company’s 25-year history.
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Ten years after its debut, Seth Rozin’s staging of InterAct Theater Company’s marvelous drama still hits home.
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The Philadelphia Theatre Company is back on sure footing with Seminar, a splendid production of Theresa Rebeck’s accomplished drama about love and literature.
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Mary Martello began acting at seven. Fifty years later, she’s just completed what may have been the finest performance of her career: playing the cruel, desperate Mag in Lantern Theater’…
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 03:29PMBy far the most interesting scenes in Assassin are when Robson examines the limited shelf life of professional athletes and the toll football takes on its players’ bodies. Despite walking …
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 03:28PMWednesday, January 30, 2013
In a work not for the faint of heart, Simpatico Theatre Project and the Renegade Company are presenting an affecting co-production of The Amish Project, playwright Jessica Dickey’s powerfu…
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Not only is this one of the busiest times on area stages, but history has shown that January and February typically spawn many of the season’s best productions. With that in mind, we’ve …
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 08:58AMLeslye Headland’s comedy Assistance, currently on stage at the Wilma Theater, is not a great play. It is, however, one that will inspire much discussion about the nature of theater and how…
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 08:55AMThursday, January 10, 2013
Film and theater are entirely different mediums, and comparing Les Mis’s current incarnations is difficult—and perhaps unfair. That said, with the possible exception of Hugh Jackman’s …
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It’s impossible to say precisely what will happen in Philadelphia theater in 2013; after all, one of the art form’s greatest virtues is its unpredictability. No matter how many times a p…
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The weather outside is far from frightful, so thankfully nothing has dampened the spirits of the spunky foursome serving up a feast of holiday songs, with a lively side of snappy patter and …
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 04:06PMWhat’s the best word to sum up Philadelphia’s theater community in 2012? Unpredictable.
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 04:04PMThursday, November 29, 2012
The intriguing drama doesn’t offer any easy answers. But the mother of its most interesting character is correct when she tells her daughter that “the world is full of wickedness.”
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 05:49AMIts story covers the battle-ravaged early 1900s, but the National Theatre of Great Britain’s production speaks volumes today.
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The British-born visionary's 30 years of determined focus and populist programming has created the world’s biggest subscriber theater.
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