THEATER: The Color Purple Makes a Joyful Noise at the Forrest Theatre
Should you see this emotionally gripping, vocally resplendent show? Hell yes!
REVIEW: In The Brownings, A Pair of Great Romantic Poets Work Blue
A terrific production and some clever, caustic wit don’t quite add up to a play.
Q&A with 11th Hour Theatre’s Michael O’Brien
The actor and artistic director talks about the Barrymore Awards, and upcoming performances of Sondheim’s Company.
Review: Eugene Onegin, Seen Through a Snowglobe
Despite exquisite moments, the Curtis production feels drained of emotional energy.
By the Bog of Cats—Medea, We Hardly Know Ye
Lovely actor work at IHT, but the play has Multiple Personality Disorder.
Making Your Family into Art in Azuka’s The Gap
Is it theater or therapy? You’ll need to judge for yourselves.
Blood Wedding Is A Marriage of Compromises
Having deconstructed Lorca’s play, this production can’t make it whole again.
In 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: Philly’s Breakout Bard
The actor shares some of his most recent milestones.
In The Swallowing Dark at Inis Nua, Action is Subjugated to Storytelling
Lizzie Nunnery’s earnest but inert play lacks a sense of forward momentum.
In Carousel at Media, 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.
O Festival Diary—Day V: The Wake World Is O17’s Glamorous Swan Song
David Hertzberg’s opera is dramatically pretentious, musically gorgeous, and very much An Event.