Thursday, September 28, 2017
The sparkle of the Arden Theatre Company's 'Cabaret' overwhelms the Kander and Ebb musical's menace. Mark Cofta reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Delaware Theatre Company sets its sights on Broadway, right past its own audiences, with a high-tech adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic novel 'Something Wicked This Way Comes.' Mark Cofta …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:17AM[SHARE]Monday, September 25, 2017
A Red Orchid Theatre's 'Simpatico' at McCarter isn't a fitting farewell for the late, great Sam Shepard. Mark Cofta reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:13PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 23, 2017
AntiGravity Theatre Project's 'Dear Diary LOL' celebrates memories of tween angst using real diaries. Mark Cofta reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:22PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 21, 2017
Juniper Productions premieres with four new one-acts by local writers performed at Philadelphia Distilling. Mark Cofta reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 19, 2017
The Lantern's Red Velvet shares the story of black actor Ira Aldridge, played by Forrest McClendon, in a timely production. Mark Cofta reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:22AM[SHARE]Monday, September 18, 2017
Dragon's Eye Theatre leads children on a library adventure in 'Follow Me Through the Gates.' Mark Cofta reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:25PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 16, 2017
The Beserker Residents team with University of the Arts for their Fringe show 'These Terrible Things,' a spoof of actor training. Mark Cofta reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:35PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 14, 2017
The stars align for twins Artemis and Apollo, who decide a movie star is their mother in the Greenfield Collective's 'Tilda Swinton Adopt Me Please.' Mark Cofta reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:37PM[SHARE]Chris Davis and Mary Tuomanen dramatize their decades-long friendship in a spirited onstage memoir. Mark Cofta reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Elephant Room's first production shares insights about suicide in nine short interdisciplinary works, gallery style. Mark Cofta reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:53PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Sex, violence, rock, drugs, drinking, death, and teen angst: the completion of On the Rocks' Haygen-Brice Walker's Dead Teenager Trilogy makes an intoxicating cocktail. Mark Cofta reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:32PM[SHARE]Monday, September 11, 2017
GoKash OnSTAGE debuts at the Arden with a timely legal drama 'Seventy IV Seconds . . . to Judgement.' Mark Cofta reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:32PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 9, 2017
Tribe of Fools' 'Fishtown: A Hipster Noir' offers much more than a noir homage. Mark Cofta reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:45PM[SHARE]Friday, September 8, 2017
Die-Cast premieres with a low-tech, sensuous, seldom-seen Shakespeare, 'Pericles,' directed by Brenna Geffers. Mark Cofta reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:20PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 7, 2017
Don't touch that dial " at least not until after Found Theater Company's dark spoof of television, 'Game Show Show.' Mark Cofta reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:16PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 6, 2017
While the Fringe dominates September, many area theaters offer intriguing musical alternatives.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:09PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 29, 2017
From 'Iphigenia at Aulis' on a ship to Trump's echoes of Brecht, and improvised Tennessee Williams to doomsday 'Hamlet' and much more, classics-inspired Fringe shows are just as feisty a…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:08AM[SHARE]Monday, August 28, 2017
Run Boy Run Productions debuts with Allen Clark's powerful anthology of subway-inspired stories. Mark Cofta reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:43PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Jon Robin Baitz's 2011 hit 'Other Desert Cities' shows its age in Bucks County Playhouse's revival. Mark Cofta reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:34AM[SHARE]Monday, August 7, 2017
Theatre Horizon's 'Hero School' offers a fun adventure for kids of all ages. Mark Cofta reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 2, 2017
August is Philadelphia's quietest theater month, a lull before the Fringe Festival storm and the fall season, but from an NFL memoir to a women's march on Washington, there's plenty to …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 1, 2017
The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival's As You Like It shows Shakespeare, PSF, and Philadelphia director Matt Pfeiffer at their best. Mark Cofta reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:04PM[SHARE]Monday, July 31, 2017
The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival's annual "Extreme Shakespeare" reveals modern themes in 'Troilus and Cressida.' Mark Cofta reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:45PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 29, 2017
Where you sit will dramatically enhance the experience of Shakespeare in Clark Park's 'Coriolanus.' Mark Cofta reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:54PM[SHARE]Monday, July 24, 2017
Theater with a View's outdoor 'Rabbit Hole' reveals that great drama doesn't require walls or a floor. Mark Cofta reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:48PM[SHARE]Ken Ludwig's backstage farce 'Moon Over Buffalo' provides summer laughs at People's Light & Theatre Company. Mark Cofta reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Delaware Shakespeare strikes a blow for gender equality and a fine production with Emilie Krause playing the title character in 'Henry V.' Mark Cofta reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:03AM[SHARE]Tiny Dynamite's 'Perfect Blue' imagines a near-future battle for environmental control and a family's survival. Mark Cofta reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:06AM[SHARE]Monday, July 17, 2017
The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival's 'The Three Musketeers' features great fights but a muddled script. Mark Cofta reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 13, 2017
Commonwealth Classic Theatre Company's 13th "Free Theatre in the Parks" tours 'Romeo & Juliet' through July. Mark Cofta reviews.
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