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Theater
Shakespeare, Shylock, anti-Semitism— and Al Pacino (1st comment)
BY: Carol Rocamora
07.11.2010
Early O’Neill and Williams, together in London
BY: Carol Rocamora
06.12.2010
The meaning of Havel’s ‘Leaving’ (4th review)
BY: AJ Sabatini
06.01.2010
‘Shining City’ post-mortem (4th review)
BY: SaraKay Smullens
05.04.2010
Straight talk about ‘Romeo and Juliet’ (2nd review)
BY: Alaina Mabaso
03.16.2010
Who should play Helen Keller?
BY: Jim Rutter
11.24.2009
Sport vs. theater: ‘Chad Deity’ and ‘Grace’
BY: Jim Rutter
10.27.2009
Summer camp for show biz hopefuls
BY: Steve Cohen
08.11.2009
Harrower’s ‘Blackbird’ revisited
BY: SaraKay Smullens
07.07.2009
The storm over Caryl Churchill’s ‘Seven Jewish Children’
BY: Carol Rocamora
05.16.2009
‘Jihad Jones’ and Arab stereotypes
BY: Jim Rutter
04.07.2009
Theatrical readings, and where to find them
BY: Mark Wolverton
03.31.2009
Why ‘Hamlet’ still matters
BY: Jim Rutter
03.31.2009
The case for cantankerous critics
BY: Jim Rutter
02.07.2009
Free speech vs. creativity at the Wilma
BY: Dan Rottenberg
01.13.2009
A therapist in the theater
BY: SaraKay Smullens
11.18.2008
A too-modern ‘Medea’ in an Athens restroom
BY: Jim Rutter
10.14.2008
R.I.P., Mum Puppettheatre
BY: Bob Cronin
10.12.2008
Jonathan Larson and ‘Rent’
BY: Steve Cohen
10.05.2008
‘The Giant Squid’ at Fringe Festival
BY: Jonathan M. Stein
09.23.2008
EgoPo’s ‘Woyzeck’ (2nd review)
BY: Jim Rutter
09.23.2008
Pinter’s ‘Hothouse’ at Lantern Theater
BY: Robert Zaller
09.21.2008
‘Candide’ at the Arden
BY: Steve Cohen
09.21.2008
In defense of Toby Zinman
BY: Jim Rutter
06.03.2008
My problem with Toby Zinman
BY: Jonathan M. Stein
05.31.2008
What Spitzer could learn from Shakespeare
BY: Jim Rutter
03.11.2008
Philadelphia as ‘Premiere City’
BY: Armen Pandola
03.11.2008
Stoppard and the Wilma
BY: Jim Rutter
03.01.2008
Jiri Zizka and Wilma’s ‘Ying Tong’
BY: Jim Rutter
02.23.2008
On boycotting Greg Wood
BY: Jim Rutter
12.04.2007
Roles for Philadelphia actresses
BY: Jim Rutter
11.20.2007
‘Death and the Maiden’ and Duke U. lacrosse
BY: Jim Rutter
10.20.2007
Barrymore Awards problems
BY: Steve Cohen
10.06.2007
Barrymore Awards problems
BY: Steve Cohen
10.06.2007
Artists and criminals
BY: Jim Rutter
09.08.2007
A plague of small-cast plays
BY: Jim Rutter
06.23.2007
Broadway’s hit musicals, updated
BY: Armen Pandola
04.24.2007
Barrymore Awards: A bush-league show
BY: Steve Cohen
10.26.2006
How to fix the Fringe Festival
BY: Steve Cohen
09.28.2006
The trouble with gay theater
BY: Dan Rottenberg
07.13.2006
A plague of one-man shows
BY: Dan Rottenberg
02.24.2006
Who can save Freedom Theatre?
BY: Steve Cohen
02.01.2006
Guide to Philadelphia theater troupes
BY: Dan Rottenberg
11.01.2004
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Theater Reviews
Mauckingbird’s ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’
BY: Jim Rutter
08.31.2010
Iron Age Theatre’s ‘Empress of the Moon’
BY: Jim Rutter
08.17.2010
‘La Cage Aux Folles’ on Broadway
BY: Jane Biberman
07.31.2010
Shakespeare vs. New York’s Jews (2nd comment)
BY: Rathe Miller
07.31.2010
Temple Repertory’s ‘Three Sisters’
BY: Jim Rutter
07.20.2010
Temple Repertory Theater’s ‘Measure For Measure’
BY: Norman Roessler
07.20.2010
Second City’s 50th anniversary tour (2nd review)
BY: Jim Rutter
07.20.2010
Second City’s 50th anniversary tour (1st review)
BY: Steve Cohen
07.20.2010
Word feast at Canada’s Shaw Festival
BY: Toby Zinman
07.20.2010
‘The Secret of Sherlock Holmes’ at People’s Light (2nd review)
BY: Steve Cohen
07.17.2010
‘The Secret of Sherlock Holmes’ at People’s Light (1st review)
BY: Bill Murphy
07.12.2010
‘Musical of Musicals’ at Walnut Studio 3 (2nd review)
BY: Judy Weightman
06.29.2010
‘Musical of Musicals’ at Walnut Studio 3 (1st review)
BY: Steve Cohen
06.26.2010
A new twist on ‘Avenue Q’
BY: Steve Cohen
06.19.2010
‘Survive!’: Exploring the future with Swim Pony
BY: Jim Rutter
06.15.2010
Cavalia: Man and horse in the Meadowlands
BY: Jane Biberman
06.15.2010
‘If You Give a Mouse a Cookie’ at the Arden
BY: Dan Rottenberg
06.12.2010
Megan Gogerty’s ‘Love Jerry’
BY: Jim Rutter
06.07.2010
‘Sunday in the Park’ at the Arden (2nd review)
BY: Steve Cohen
06.07.2010
‘Sunday in the Park’ at the Arden (1st review)
BY: Jane Biberman
06.07.2010
Stage adaptations: a British foursome
BY: Carol Rocamora
06.04.2010
Vaclav Havel’s ‘Leaving’ at the Wilma (3rd review)
BY: Jim Rutter
06.01.2010
Vaclav Havel’s ‘Leaving’ at the Wilma (2nd review)
BY: Robert Zaller
05.31.2010
‘Fiddler On the Roof’ at the Walnut
BY: Steve Cohen
05.31.2010
Vaclav Havel’s ‘Leaving’ at the Wilma (1st review)
BY: Steve Cohen
05.28.2010
‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ by PTC
BY: Dan Rottenberg
05.27.2010
Katharine Gray’s ‘516’ by Philadelphia Theatre Workshop
BY: Jim Rutter
05.25.2010
Brecht’s ‘Arturo Ui’ in Delaware (2nd review)
BY: A.Q. Torby
05.15.2010
Quintessence Theatre’s ‘Measure For Measure’
BY: Jim Rutter
05.11.2010
‘Xanadu’ in Wilmington
BY: Steve Cohen
05.11.2010
Brecht’s ‘Arturo Ui’ in Delaware (1st review)
BY: Norman Roessler
05.08.2010
1812’s ‘Evening Without Woody Allen’
BY: Dan Rottenberg
05.06.2010
Tracy Letts’s ‘August: Osage County’ on tour (2nd review)
BY: Steve Cohen
05.04.2010
Lantern Theater’s ‘Henry IV, Part I’ (2nd review)
BY: Steve Cohen
05.01.2010
Tracy Letts’s ‘August: Osage County’ on tour (1st review)
BY: Neal Zoren
05.01.2010
August Wilson’s ‘Fences’ in New York
BY: Toby Zinman
05.01.2010
‘American Idiot’ on Broadway
BY: Wendy Rosenfield
04.27.2010
‘Romeo and Juliet’ at Annenberg
BY: Steve Cohen
04.27.2010
McPherson’s ‘Shining City’ by Theatre Exile (3rd review)
BY: Robert Zaller
04.24.2010
Sheila Callaghan’s ‘Crumble,’ by Flashpoint Theatre
BY: Jim Rutter
04.24.2010
McPherson’s ‘Shining City’ by Theatre Exile (2nd review)
BY: Jim Rutter
04.20.2010
Enda Walsh’s ‘Bedbound,’ by Inis Nua Theatre
BY: Jim Rutter
04.20.2010
Neil LaBute’s ‘Fat Pig’ by Theatre Horizon
BY: Steve Cohen
04.17.2010
Lee Blessing’s ‘When We Go Upon the Sea’
BY: Robert Zaller
04.17.2010
‘The 39 Steps’ in Wilmington
BY: Steve Cohen
04.13.2010
Luna Theater’s ‘Sick’ at Walnut Studio 5
BY: Jim Rutter
04.13.2010
‘Travels With My Aunt’ at Walnut’s Studio 3
BY: Jane Biberman
04.13.2010
McPherson’s ‘Shining City’ by Theatre Exile (1st review)
BY: Pamela Riley
04.10.2010
Lantern Theater’s ‘Henry IV, Part I’ (1st review)
BY: Robert Zaller
04.10.2010
‘The Addams Family’ in New York
BY: Toby Zinman
04.08.2010
‘Red Hot Patriot’: Kathleen Turner as Molly Ivins (3rd review)
BY: Robert Zaller
04.03.2010
‘When the Rain Stops Falling’ in New York
BY: Toby Zinman
04.03.2010
John Logan’s ‘Red’: Mark Rothko on Broadway
BY: Toby Zinman
04.03.2010
‘Red Hot Patriot’: Kathleen Turner as Molly Ivins (2nd review)
BY: Jonathan M. Stein
03.30.2010
‘The Lion King’ gets the tour treatment
BY: Steve Cohen
03.27.2010
‘Red Hot Patriot’: Kathleen Turner as Molly Ivins (1st review)
BY: Dan Rottenberg
03.25.2010
‘Language Rooms’ at the Wilma (3rd review)
BY: Jonathan M. Stein
03.23.2010
‘Language Rooms’ at the Wilma (2nd review)
BY: Robert Zaller
03.23.2010
‘The Gnädiges Fräulein’ by Tennessee Williams
BY: Jim Rutter
03.23.2010
Beckett’s ‘Waiting For Godot,’ by EgoPo
BY: Jim Rutter
03.23.2010
‘The Book of Grace’ in New York
BY: Toby Zinman
03.20.2010
‘Language Rooms’ at the Wilma (1st review)
BY: Lesley Valdes
03.16.2010
Mary Martello’s ‘Happily Ever After’
BY: Dan Rottenberg
03.11.2010
‘Romeo and Juliet’ at the Arden (1st review)
BY: Jim Rutter
03.09.2010
Bill Cain’s ‘Equivocation,’ Off-Broadway
BY: Toby Zinman
03.09.2010
‘A Behanding in Spokane’ on Broadway
BY: Toby Zinman
03.06.2010
‘Annie’ shows her age
BY: Jennifer Baldino Bonett
03.02.2010
‘Coupla White Chicks’ by New City Stage (2nd review)
BY: Jim Rutter
02.16.2010
Graham’s ‘Any Given Monday’ by Theatre Exile (2nd review)
BY: Jim Rutter
02.16.2010
Campbell’s ‘The Pride,’ off-Broadway
BY: Toby Zinman
02.16.2010
‘Coupla White Chicks’ by New City Stage (1st review)
BY: Dan Rottenberg
02.15.2010
Graham’s ‘Any Given Monday’ by Theatre Exile (1st review)
BY: Dan Rottenberg
02.12.2010
McNally’s ‘Golden Age’ by PTC (3rd review)
BY: Jim Rutter
02.09.2010
Villanova Theatre’s modernized ‘Medea’
BY: Robert Zaller
02.09.2010
McNally’s ‘Golden Age’ by PTC (2nd review)
BY: Steve Cohen
02.02.2010
‘Time Stands Still’ in New York
BY: Toby Zinman
01.29.2010
Sam Shepard’s ‘Ages of the Moon’ in New York
BY: Toby Zinman
01.29.2010
McNally’s ‘Golden Age’ by PTC (1st review)
BY: Dan Rottenberg
01.29.2010
Gregory Burke’s ‘Gagarin Way’
BY: Jim Rutter
01.26.2010
Mauckingbird’s ‘Tru’ and ‘The Threshing Floor’
BY: Jim Rutter
01.19.2010
‘Peter Pan’ at the Arden
BY: Dan Rottenberg
01.18.2010
‘Becky Shaw’ at the Wilma (2nd review)
BY: Jim Rutter
01.12.2010
‘Becky Shaw’ at the Wilma (1st review)
BY: Dan Rottenberg
01.08.2010
‘Ragtime’ on Broadway, reconsidered (2nd review)
BY: Steve Cohen
12.29.2009
Liv Ullmann’s ‘Streetcar Named Desire’
BY: Carol Rocamora
12.27.2009
‘Superior Donuts’ on Broadway
BY: Steve Cohen
12.22.2009
‘Holiday Show With the Swing Club Band’
BY: Steve Cohen
12.19.2009
‘Sweeney Todd’ in Wilmington
BY: Julius Ferraro
12.19.2009
Molière’s ‘Scapin,’ by the Lantern
BY: Gresham Riley
12.19.2009
‘A Little Night Music’ revived in New York
BY: Toby Zinman
12.15.2009
David Mamet’s ‘Race’ on Broadway
BY: Toby Zinman
12.15.2009
‘This Is the Week That Is’ by 1812 Productions (2nd review)
BY: Steve Cohen
12.12.2009
‘This Is the Week That Is’ by 1812 Productions (1st review)
BY: Dan Rottenberg
12.11.2009
‘Legally Blonde’ in Wilmington
BY: Steve Cohen
12.07.2009
‘Harold and the Purple Crayon’ at the Prince
BY: Dan Rottenberg
12.07.2009
‘Ragtime’ revived in New York (1st review)
BY: Steve Cohen
11.28.2009
‘boom’ by Flashpoint Theatre
BY: Julius Ferraro
11.28.2009
Jude Law as ‘Hamlet’ on Broadway
BY: Carol Rocamora
11.24.2009
‘Light in the Piazza’ by PTC (2nd review)
BY: Dan Rottenberg
11.22.2009
‘Light in the Piazza’ by PTC (1st review)
BY: Steve Cohen
11.21.2009
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