Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Oh, to have been a fly on the wall during rehearsals for the frantic production of The Mystery of Irma Vep, which is unraveling, or detonating, or maybe mushrooming, on the stage of Ambler's…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:17AM[SHARE]Monday, October 31, 2011
Dito Van Reigersberg and Luigi Sottile give it all they've got, then come up with some more, in this super-whacko version of "The Mysetery of Irma Vep" at Act II Playhouse. Inquirer theater …
SOURCE: Philly.com at 03:15PM[SHARE]Friday, October 28, 2011
The Tony-winning "Red" is not only playing at Philadelphia Theatre Company, but also at the Shore. Inquirer theatre critic Howard Shapiro reviews from Cape May.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:21PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 26, 2011
The robust InterAct Theatre Company production of Sarah Treem's "The How and the Why," at the Adrienne Theatre, tells the story of two women scientists, each on opposite ends of their career…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:02PM[SHARE]The world premiere of Irish playwright Marina Carr's "Phaedra Backwards" makes the myth sizzle. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews from McCarter Theatre in Princeton, N.J.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 25, 2011
The excellent, fast-moving rendition of The Merchant of Venice by Quintessence Theatre Group at the Sedgwick in Mount Airy is all the more interesting for its choices.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:33AM[SHARE]Monday, October 24, 2011
An excellent, fluid "The Mercant of Venice" is being staged by Quintessence Theatre Group at its Mount Airy home, the Sedgwick Theatre. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews from n…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 02:22PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 20, 2011
The extraordinary play and production of "Our Class" is in its American premiere at the Wilma. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 04:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 5, 2011
The theater, in its first tour, stages improved version of the show Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 4, 2011
The Wilma Theater led all others Monday night at the 2011 Barrymore Awards, the region's professional theater honors, for its production of Sarah Ruhl's offbeat, often funny play In the Next…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:36AM[SHARE]Monday, October 3, 2011
Agatha Christie's theatrical mystery, Black Coffee, is like
her work in general: methodical and not showy. So too is her primary hero, the Belgian
detective Hercule Poirot. And the same go…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:21AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 17, 2011
In Kimberly Akimbo, which opened Thursday and is getting a good ride at Theatre Horizon in Norristown, playwright David Lindsay-Abaire calls for an actress in her 50s to play a 16-year-old.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:05AM[SHARE]Friday, September 16, 2011
It's all a bit much - and a bit too little. Lloyd Webber's painfully swollen music (played with gusto by the Walnut's orchestra, which knows its way around a crescendo, or two, or maybe 70) …
SOURCE: Philly.com at 09:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 15, 2011
The Inis Nua production, seen here in April, has opened Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 10:16AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 6, 2011
The Wilma Theater's production of an offbeat, often funny play about the early history of vibrators and a children's show at the Arden Theatre top the nominations for the Barrymore Awards fo…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 16, 2011
The women have it all over the men down the Shore this summer - at least on stage. During lemming time, the current period when Philadelphians seem to flock to Jersey beaches with an innate …
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:05AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 30, 2011
CENTER VALLEY, Pa. - Nobody had a makeup artist in the Elizabethan theater, or a lighting designer, choreographer, or even a director.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 03:27PM[SHARE]Monday, July 11, 2011
John Rosenberg's intense new play is set on his birthday in 1976, but has nothing to do with him, only with the era. A week before his October birth, the leaders of Germany's terroristic Baa…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:20AM[SHARE]Friday, July 8, 2011
In the crisp, fluid rendering of Tartuffe by Temple University's professional Repertory Theater, the maid is a strikingly insolent Genevieve Perrier, who spouts orders and insults in a charm…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:18AM[SHARE]Friday, June 17, 2011
The Bard has plenty of company in playhouses this season.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:58PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 16, 2011
An idealistic actor is drawing performers to do their thing on the former estate of a trolley magnate in Cheltenham. And the results are free to see.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 05:52AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 28, 2011
At the Wilma Theater, where Alan Ayckbourn's comedy My Wonderful Day starts off quietly and gets funnier and funnier as it plows forward for 90 minutes, I was completely bamboozled - and wha…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 08:45AM[SHARE]Friday, May 27, 2011
In Lynn Nottage's powerfully crafted Ruined, which opened Wednesday night in director Maria Mileaf's riveting production by the Philadelphia Theatre Company, you want so much to believe that…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 09:16AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 12, 2011
The clever, sweet new musical Sleeping Beauty Wakes, at Princeton's McCarter Theatre Center, is about what happens when science runs up against love.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 08:46AM[SHARE]Friday, May 6, 2011
In Theresa Rebeck's play, commissioned by the University of Delaware's professional theater company, REP, Mic Matarrese (right) as the smarmy extremist talk-show host interviews Drew Brhel a…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Having the formidable Lady Bracknell among us - she appears in two of the three acts of Oscar Wilde's stylish comedy The Importance of Being Earnest - is to be faced down by Victorian London…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:18AM[SHARE]Monday, May 2, 2011
If the play is the thing but the cost is not, there's theater at the cinema.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 29, 2011
Talk about taking on a challenge: EgoPo Classic Theater's artistic director, Lane Savadove, and local actor Ross Beschler set about adapting a 1908 French novel called L'Enfer, or Hell, to t…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 08:49AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 13, 2011
I enjoyed A Passing Wind - how can you poo-poo a show that seizes the characters of Sigmund Freud (the excellent Tim Moyer), actress Sarah Bernhardt (Maureen Torsney-Weir), artist Claude Mon…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 08:46AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 2, 2011
In the middle of a whirlwind week this month, Rose Hemingway finished stage-smooching with Daniel Radcliffe in a matinee performance of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and t…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 09:51AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 27, 2011
Let's raise a glass to shtick, the little, often unscripted physical stage business that can turn a moment of fun into a heightened laff-riot. And here's a toast to The 39 Steps - the show a…
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