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REVIEW: Marilyn Maye Scores a Home Run at Dino’s Backstage
Theater REVIEW: Marilyn Maye Scores a Home Run at Dino’s Backstage Singing doesn’t get better than this. Get our weekly picks of what to do this weekend and the latest on Philly's arts and entertainment scene. Growing up in suburban Southern California, my motto might have been “Eastward Ho!” I imagined life there, especially in New York, as so much more sophisticated. When I finally made the… → Read More
REVIEW: In Monster in the Hall, Things Go Bump in the Light
It begins with a clap of thunder and a plunge into darkness, a traditional theatrical clue that something bad is about to happen. Yet in … → Read More
REVIEW: In Love Never Dies at the Academy, He’s Baa-aack
The real subject here is Love Never Dies, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s lush, creepy, spectacular, overwrought, often incomprehensible, and ultimately embarrassingly entertaining follow-up to The Phantom … → Read More
PREVIEW: At EgoPo Classic Theater, Two Worlds Meet in Desire Under the Elms
PREVIEW: At EgoPo Classic Theater, Two Worlds Meet in Desire Under the Elms An important but rarely produced American play gets a reboot from a South African company. Get our weekly picks of what to do this weekend and the latest on Philly's arts and entertainment scene. Mbali Bloom and Robin Smith in Desire Under the Elms, coming to EgoPo. (Photo by Pat Bromilow Downing) Even by EgoPo Classic… → Read More
REVIEW: At Lantern’s Don’t Dress for Dinner, There’s a Heavy Hand in the Kitchen – Philadelphia Magazine
A running gag in Don’t Dress for Dinner, Marc Camoletti’s hit French farce—on stage at Lantern Theater Company in a snappy adaptation by Robin Hawdon—involves … → Read More
REVIEW: In Turning Off the Morning News, Christopher Durang Returns with a Bang – Philadelphia Magazine
Welcome back, Christopher Durang! I’ve missed you. More: REVIEW: Stones in his Pockets Skims Elegantly Over the Surface THEATER REVIEW: Simpatico at McCarter Uneasily Straddles … → Read More
REVIEW: Reliving the ‘60s with Catch-22 at Curio Theatre – Philadelphia Magazine
For its title alone, Catch-22 is assured immortality. Author Joseph Heller coined the term, defining a situation with mutually contradictory coordinates, from which there is … → Read More
Six Questions with Daniela Mack, Opera Philadelphia’s Carmen – Philadelphia Magazine
Mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack, whose schedule takes her all over the United States and around the globe (she was a Cardiff Singer of the World finalist … → Read More
REVIEW: With Madaket Road, a Long, Intriguing Journey Comes to a Close – Philadelphia Magazine
And so, the journey ends. In Lydie Breeze—a deeply ambitious trilogy of plays by the formidable John Guare, presented here at EgoPo with palpable love … → Read More
REVIEW: In John Guare’s Aipotu, Utopia Ain’t What it’s Cracked Up to Be – Philadelphia Magazine
REVIEW: In John Guare’s Aipotu, Utopia Ain’t What it’s Cracked Up to Be Part II of the Lydie Breeze Trilogy is linear, concise, and better than Part I. Melanie Julian, Charlie DelMarcelle, and Hannah Gold in Aipotu at EgoPo. (Photo by Dave Sarrafian) When we last saw army nurse Lydie Breeze — in Cold Harbor, the first play of John Guare’s trilogy that bears her name — she and her cohort were… → Read More
REVIEW: The Bluest Eye — From Page to Stage, Between a Rock and a Hard Place – Philadelphia Magazine
Theater REVIEW: The Bluest Eye — From Page to Stage, Between a Rock and a Hard Place The Arden’s Toni Morrison adaptation is too much handsome staging, too little Morrison. Jasmine Ward as Pecola in The Bluest Eye at Arden Theatre. (Photo by Mark Garvin) The jump from page to the stage sounds so easy, right? So fluid, so natural. Yet Lydia R. Diamond’s conscientious but reductive stage… → Read More
REVIEW: A Quiet Place—Leonard Bernstein’s Chilly Winter Garden – Philadelphia Magazine
Theater REVIEW: A Quiet Place—Leonard Bernstein’s Chilly Winter Garden Without its companion pieced, Trouble in Tahiti, this difficult late work feels like half of an opera. Ashley Milanese and Tyler Zimmerman in A Quiet Place at the Perelman Theater. (Photo by Paula Court) Leonard Bernstein liked his gardens. “We’ll build our house and chop our wood / and make our garden grow,” the ensemble… → Read More
REVIEW: Ready, Steady, Yeti…. What? – Philadelphia Magazine
REVIEW: Ready, Steady, Yeti…. What? David Jacobi’s play wants to capture something important. I wish I knew what. Kishia Nixon and Frank Nardi, Jr. in Ready, Steady, Yeti, Go at Azuka Theatre. Underneath it all is a harsh, ugly moment and a need for understanding. A racial epithet—yes, the N-word—has been scrawled on the wall of a local family home. Of course, it’s not the first time this… → Read More
REVIEW: In A Steady Rain, Crime Stories at Arm’s Length – Philadelphia Magazine
Two actors, two chairs, and some harrowing stories. The ingredients are spare, but so is a lot of powerful theater. The long, narrow tennis court-style … → Read More
REVIEW: Time Remembered Is an Elegant French Feast – Philadelphia Magazine
Style. I sometimes think it’s the rarest element in the theater, and the most precious. Fortunately for Philadelphia, Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium (IRC from here on, … → Read More
REVIEW: In Waitress, Lots of Sugar and Lard, Not Much Filling – Philadelphia Magazine
REVIEW: In Waitress, Lots of Sugar and Lard, Not Much Filling How could some very talented people deliver a show so devoid of authenticity? Maiesha McQueen, Desi Oakley, and Bryan Fenkart in the National Tour of Waitress. (Photo by Joan Marcus) I’ve seen Sweeney Todd, read Mildred Pierce, and eaten at Magpie, so believe me when I tell you that I know the transformative power of pies. But the… → Read More
REVIEW: Stones in his Pockets Skims Elegantly Over the Surface – Philadelphia Magazine
REVIEW: Stones in his Pockets Skims Elegantly Over the Surface McCarter’s enjoyable production doesn’t fully realize the shows virtuosity or pathos. Garrett Lombard and Aaron Monaghan in Stones in his Pockets at McCarter Theatre Center. (Photo by T. Charles Erickson) Marie Jones’ Stones in His Pockets was a genuine international hit when it was first produced two decades ago in Ireland, London,… → Read More
REVIEW: Arden’s Peter Pan, Reinvented in an American Campground
Theater REVIEW: Arden’s Peter Pan, Reinvented in an American Campground Some darkly provocative ideas here keep bumping heads with the upbeat tone at the center. Jo Vito Ramirez and Emilie Krause in Arden Theatre’s Peter Pan. (Photo by Mark Garvin) Peter Pan is one of the classic books of childhood, its greatness firmly established. You don’t need me to tell you that. But the older I get, the… → Read More
REVIEW: Philadelphia Orchestra’s Messiah Rings Out the Year
Handel’s Messiah, like the God it so gloriously celebrates, contains multitudes. The composer himself wrote alternate versions of some of the numbers and assigned them … → Read More
Review: In The Brownings, Romantic Poetry Takes the Comic Low Road
Some famous pictures capture the great actress Katharine Cornell as Elizabeth Barrett Browning in The Barretts of Wimpole Street. Rudolf Besier’s sentimental comedy, a Broadway … → Read More