Lost Girls by John Pollono, directed by Joe Canuso. Theatre Exile, Philadelphia, March 2017 I've seen so many dramas about losers that I'm tired of the genre. I get impatient with peo…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 11:36AM[SHARE]Bull in a China Shop by Bryna Turner, directed by Lee Sunday Evans at the Claire Tow Theater of Lincoln Center, New York. The name of Mary Woolley has become obscured by the passage o…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 11:50AM[SHARE]The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Simon Stephens, based on the novel by Mark Haddon. Directed by Marianne Elliott for national tour. The hero of this play is, in p…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 02:15PM[SHARE]The Seagull by Anton Chekhov; Lane Savadove directed. EgoPo Classic Theater, Philadelphia, February 2017. Not everyone likes Chekhov's The Seagull. Despite it being a lauded masterpie…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 07:34PM[SHARE]Grand Concourse by Heidi Schreck; Beth Lopes directed at Theatre Horizon, Norristown PA, February 2017. Combining its selection of play with a mission to help hungry and homeless peop…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 09:36PM[SHARE]Dancing With the Stars on tour, Upper Darby, PA, January 2017 Dancing With The Stars may be off TV, between seasons, but the choreography hasn't stopped. Ten of the most talented ball…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 01:00AM[SHARE]The Nose, by Nikolai Gogol. EgoPo Classic Theatre, Philadelphia, January 2017 In the midst of its season devoted to Russian classics, the EgoPo theater company scheduled a fund-raisin…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 10:48AM[SHARE]The Road: My Life With John Denver. By Randal Myler and Dan Wheetman. Myler directed at Peoples Light & Theatre, Malvern, PA. January 2017 The latest musical at Peoples Light has…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 01:33PM[SHARE]In Transit. Book, music & lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, James-Allen Ford, Russ Kaplan and Sara Wordsworth. Directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall. Circle in the Square, New …
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 11:28AM[SHARE]Allegiance. Music & lyrics by Jay Kuo, book by Marc Acito, Jay Kuo and Lorenzo Thione. Stafford Arima directed. Presented in movie theaters by Fathom Events. Allegiance had a shor…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 10:45AM[SHARE]She Loves Me. Music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, book by Joe Masteroff, based on a play by Miklos Laszlo. 2016 Broadway production, presented in HD in movie theaters by Fathom E…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 02:31PM[SHARE]The National Dog Show, presented by the Kennel Club of Philadelphia. NBC telecast on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 2016, as recorded live on November 19 & 20 at the Greater Phila…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 07:56PM[SHARE]Delirium, an adaptation by Enda Walsh of The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. EgoPo Classic Theater in Philadelphia. Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov is great literature,…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 05:45AM[SHARE]Guards at the Taj, by Rajiv Joseph. Deborah Block directed at Theatre Exile, Philadelphia. Shah Mirza Jahan was a cultured patron of the arts. His reign in the 17th century was consid…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 11:45AM[SHARE]Mauritius, by Theresa Rebeck, through November 20, 2016 at Act II Playhouse, 56 E. Butler Ave., Ambler PA. Theresa Reback's Mauritius channels David Mamet at his best while eschewing …
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 12:01PM[SHARE]A New Brain. Music and lyrics by William Finn, Matthew Decker directed at Theatre Horizon, Norristown PA. A New Brain is a musical about the life-threatening illness of the composer a…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 02:29PM[SHARE]When Donald Trump's Access Hollywood recording became public, politicians panicked about how they should respond. The heads of two Philadelphia-area theater companies, on the other hand, vie…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 09:09AM[SHARE]This is the Week That Is: Election Special. 1812 Productions, performing at Plays & Players Theatre in Philadelphia, October & November 2016. Will Rogers used gentle, folksy…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 08:47AM[SHARE]The War of the Roses, by Warren Adler. American stage premiere directed by Bud Martin. Delaware Theatre Company. This new stage production improves on the successful 1989 movie of the…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 04:11PM[SHARE]Electile Dysfunction. Written by and starring Tony Braithwaite, Tracie Higgins and Will Dennis. Braithwaite directed at Act II Playhouse, Ambler, PA. We readily identify with the prob…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 08:53PM[SHARE]Tommy and Me, by Ray Didinger. World premiere by Theatre Exile, Philadelphia, 2016 I remember when I first met Ray Didinger. It was in the audience at a performance of a Bruce Graham …
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 05:55PM[SHARE]Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash. Created by Richard Maltby Jr., conceived by William Meade. Sherry Lutken directed. Peoples Light & Theatre Company, Malvern, PA. * Just as its ti…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 04:04PM[SHARE]Fiddler on the Roof. Music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, book by Joseph Stein. Bartlett Sher directed. Broadway Theatre, New York. Fiddler on the Roof takes place over 100…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 09:48AM[SHARE]The Harassment of Iris Malloy, by Zak Berkman. Lisa Rothe directed its world premiere by Poeples Light & Theater Company, Malvern PA. * * While most regional theaters are on summer vaca…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 02:16PM[SHARE]Jamaica. Book by Yip Harburg & Fred Saidy, lyrics by Harburg, music by Harold Arlen. Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj directed. New Freedom Theatre, Philadelphia * Small local companies sometimes…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 05:20PM[SHARE]36 Views, a play by Naomi Iizuka. Lantern Theater Company, Philadelphia. We are being seduced, all of us, in the audience and on the stage. You feel it from the first meeting of two o…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 10:59AM[SHARE]At Philadelphia's Freedom Theater in 2004, Walter Dallas directed a musical about Jesus reviving the dead, Lazarus Unstoned. It was an exciting, compelling production. But soon afterwards, t…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 11:02AM[SHARE]The 1957 musical Jamaica is being revived at Freedom Theater in Philadelphia in June of 2016. It's pleasant nostalgia to think of Jamaica as an example of golden-age Broadway. But that show'…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 03:39PM[SHARE]The Invisible Hand, by Ayad Akhtar. Matthew Pfeiffer directed. Theatre Exile, Philadelphia. If you were to judge by comments on the web and by advertising, you'd think that Ayad Akhta…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 03:05PM[SHARE]Fully Committed, by Becky Mode. Lyceum Theatre in New York City; Theatre Horizon in Norristown PA. Michael Doherty is no Jesse Tyler Ferguson; he's even better. It's no secret …
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 12:39PM[SHARE]Tuck Everlasting. Music by Chris Miller, lyrics by Nathan Tysen, book by Claudia Shear and Tim Federle. Broadhurst Theatre, New York. If you could choose to live forever, would you? T…
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