REVIEW: Making Your Family into Art in Azuka’s The Gap
Is Emma Goidel’s play theater or therapy? You’ll need to judge for yourselves.
REVIEW: The Wilma’s Blood Wedding Is A Marriage of Compromises
Having deconstructed Lorca’s play, this production can’t make it whole again.
THEATER REVIEW: In InterAct’s Broken Stones, A Political Tale Goes Down the Rabbit Hole
There’s a play here, somewhere. Good luck finding it.
THEATER REVIEW: TouchTones, The Phone Sex Musical—Sorry, Wrong Number
This limp, by-the-numbers musical at the Arden lacks not only an erotic charge, but even general interest
In Theatre Exile’s Ideation, Consultants Pitching for their Lives
The ideas fly fast, furious, and ominous in Aaron Loeb’s entertaining satire.
James Ijames: Breakout Bard (Philadelphia Magazine)
The actor and playwright, a mainstay of the Philly theater scene, is now making waves nationally.
In The Swallowing Dark at Inis Nua, Action is Subjegated to Storytelling
Lizzie Nunnery’s earnest but inert play lacks a sense of forward momentum.
Four Gay Men Ponder Their Cosmic Attachment to Barbra Streisand
A chat with the cast and crew of 1812’s Buyer & Cellar.
In Carousel at the Media Theatre, Life Lived Fully in a One-Horse Town
This production is small-scale, but often imaginative and satisfying.
In Arden Theatre’s Cabaret—Garter Belts, Nipples, and Oh, Yes… Nazis
The emphasis on louche sexual openness, meant to shock the audience, instead makes this production feel less dangerous.
