Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Toby Zinman wrote: Inis Nua Company's production of a new play by Elaine Murphy, is full of charm and sentiment and monologues and accents and working class women who keep on keeping on.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:44PM[SHARE]Friday, February 3, 2012
Toby Zinman wrote: Somewhere between a high school assembly speech, a pep talk, and a Wikipedia article, "Branch" by Walt Vail isn't really a play at all.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 09:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 1, 2012
"Clybourne Park" a bitter satire about race and real estate, performed by a skilled cast.Toby Zinman found that the play both annoys and amuses; it creeps up on you and makes you squirm.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Toby Zinman found this new play by Danai Gurira riveting, with a cast beyond outstanding.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 08:48PM[SHARE]Toby Zinman found this a fine, strong production of August Wilson's powerful play, JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 19, 2012
Toby Zinman found this production of PROOF both luminous and moving, making the math as well as the characters accessible and interesting.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Toby Zinman found "In the Footprint" a disappointingly dull docudrama about the legalities of eminent domain focused on the seven-year battle over building an arena in Brooklyn.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 17, 2011
Sunday, December 11, 2011
An Assault on the "war on terror," Christopher Durang's leaden farce is, Toby Zinman found, a perfect demonstration of how short the shelf life of political humor is.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 10:02AM[SHARE]An assault on the "war on terror," Toby Zinman found this Christopher Durang farce the perfect demonstration of how short the shelf life of political humor is
SOURCE: Philly.com at 09:56AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 10, 2011
Toby Zinman found Curio Theatre's production of "Accidental Death of an Anarchist," Dario Fo's dated political comedy about police brutality, desperately unfunny as well as irrelevant to co…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 1, 2011
According to Toby Zinman, NOEL AND GERTIE, a musical biography of Noel Coward's friendship with Gertrude Lawrence, tries for old-timey savoir faire, but manages only old-timey.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:32PM[SHARE]Our unfunny world has provided plenty of material for this funny company's spoof of the news and views"just the ticket when the real stuff gets you down, says Toby Zinman.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:15AM[SHARE]Monday, November 28, 2011
Ordinary Days provides, according to Toby Zinman, a sentimental, entirely predictable but altogether pleasant evening in the theater.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:26PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 20, 2011
A wonderful cast of four young very skilled actors is led by Alan Rickman in Theresa Rebeck's new dark comedy about writers, according to Toby Zinman.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 10:00PM[SHARE]Friday, November 18, 2011
Medley is the name of the complicated, charming and entertaining gamethe Bearded Ladies are playing in their tuneful cabaret, according to Toby Zinman
SOURCE: Philly.com at 10:25AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 17, 2011
In Theatre Exile's fine production Director Deborah Block has found exactly the right funny and tender and troubling tone. Toby Zinman found the two actors, Keith Conallen and Charlotte Fo…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:03AM[SHARE]Friday, November 11, 2011
Quidam is one of many Cirque shows, and although Toby Zinman found it diminished from their circus shows of five or ten years ago, there are still some reasons to gasp or murmur "amazing!"
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:14AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Asuka's production of 'Act a Lady'is a strong one, but Toby Zinman found the play unfunny and trite.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:41PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Monday, October 31, 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
Toby Zinman found THE FAT CAT KILLERS to be a weak satire about desperate workers and the heartlessness of big corporations.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:58PM[SHARE]Friday, October 21, 2011
Toby Zinman found EgoPo Classic Theater's THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK an excellent production of a terrible play.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 03:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 20, 2011
Toby Zinman found nothing funny about these three comedies, despite the production's famous comic playwrights and famous comic actors.A Broadway dud.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:23PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 11, 2011
This week, 1812 Productions' season opens with Mistakes Were Made, a comic play by Craig Wright that was named "Best of the Year" by both New York and Time magazines in 2010. The producer, a…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 10:23AM[SHARE]Friday, October 7, 2011
The play, at the Arden, is immense not only in its ambitions but also in its length (3½ hours) and in its scope: generations of monsters, each vying for sympathy, understanding, and love,…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:16AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Here's a shocker: Good news from Washington. Unlike Congress, three major theaters in D.C. have been winning rave review after rave review, from Wooly Mammoth's Clybourne Park to Kennedy Cen…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:10AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 6, 2011
Alas, not to mention alack: This summer's production of The Comedy of Errors is embarrassingly amateurish and painfully dull. Everyone speaks very slowly and rhythmically, as if they had mem…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 10:09AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Two delicious and hilarious productions of Much Ado About Nothing are currently playing in London: one at the Globe, where "original practices" rule, and one on the West End, where high prof…
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