Thursday, March 7, 2019
Rent has reached the status of a classic. The audience at the Merriam Theatre of the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia treated it that way as the national touring production opened for a five-da…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 09:02PMFriday, March 1, 2019
Fans of Dancing With The Stars were disappointed when we heard there would be no spring season in 2019, for the first time in the show’s history. This left a long gap in between seasons wh…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 01:52PMWednesday, February 20, 2019
There are two strong reasons to welcome a revival of the musical Lolita, My Love, which is being staged at the York Theatre at Saint Peter’s from February 23 through March 3 as part of its…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 10:20PMSunday, February 17, 2019
Awake and Sing! by Clifford Odets. Quintessence Theare Group at the Sedgewick Theatre in Philadelphia through February 24, 2019. Max Shulman directs. Awake and Sing! dramatizes issues…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 06:47PMWednesday, February 13, 2019
The Bridges of Madison County. Philadelphia Theatre Company through March 3, 2019. For its second production — and first musical — since its reorganization, Philadelphia Theatre C…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 06:55PMSaint Joan by George Bernard Shaw, a new version with additional scenes by Chelsea Marcantel. Bud Martin directs at Delaware Theater Company, Wilmington Delaware through February 24, 2019. &…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 06:07PMTuesday, February 5, 2019
Three Sisters Two by Reza de Wet. Brenna Geffers directs for EgoPo Classic Theater, Philadelphia, February 2019. There’s a connection between Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters, Reza d…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 03:08PMSaturday, January 26, 2019
A Comedy of Tenors by Ken Ludwig. Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, through March 3, 2019. Ken Ludwig has a talent for writing farces that are extremely challenging for the actors.…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 06:24PMFriday, January 25, 2019
Becoming Dr. Ruth by Mark St. Germain. Through February 17, 2019 at Act II Playhouse, Ambler, PA. I remember a Sunday night in the 1980s. I was driving through North Jersey, listening…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 09:29AMThursday, December 20, 2018
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…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 10:18AMThursday, November 15, 2018
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…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 11:38AMTuesday, November 13, 2018
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…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 12:37PMSaturday, November 10, 2018
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…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 06:05PMWednesday, November 7, 2018
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…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 07:27PMRoald 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…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 06:24PMWednesday, October 31, 2018
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 extr…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 03:10PMWednesday, October 24, 2018
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. …
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 12:54PMMonday, October 22, 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 S…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 11:10PMSweat, 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-ope…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 10:59AMSunday, October 21, 2018
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 …
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 06:15PMSaturday, October 20, 2018
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 — …
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 10:27PMMary 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 …
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 05:14PMFriday, October 19, 2018
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 b…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 07:11PMTuesday, October 2, 2018
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…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 07:25PMMonday, October 1, 2018
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, Terre…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 07:46PMFriday, September 14, 2018
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…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 05:58PMThursday, September 13, 2018
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 …
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 10:10AMWednesday, September 5, 2018
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…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 08:16AMThursday, August 30, 2018
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…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 06:03PMSunday, August 12, 2018
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…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 10:28AMThursday, August 2, 2018
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 C…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 02:01PM 
