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Akintilo and Lawton talk animatedly at a bar with rows of liquor bottles. Congdon sips a beer, looking annoyed behind them

Inis Nua presents Bisi Adigun and Roddy Doyle’s adaptation of John Millington Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World

The new West

Inis Nua opens its season with an ambitious, revitalized adaptation of The Playboy of the Western World. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

Cameron Kelsall

Sep 30, 2024 Reviews 3 minute read

Two people pose back to back, arms crossed. One has sunglasses and backwards cap, the other looks over their shoulder

Philly Fringe 2024: Cambria House presents Henry Clatt’s BODYSHOP

How not to be dead yet

Cambria House presents BODYSHOP, an uneven comedy with old-school Fringe-y charm. Kiran Pandey reviews.

Kiran Pandey

Sep 29, 2024 Reviews 3 minute read

Lim, Newmon, and Heaston sing with arms raised in bright-colored flowing contemporary clothes, ensemble around them.

Philly Fringe 2024: Opera Philadelphia and FringeArts present Missy Mazzoli and Royce Varek’s The Listeners

An immersive and impressive American premiere

The Listeners, a down-to-earth, refreshing new opera from composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Varek, gets its American premiere in a co-presentation with FringeArts as part of the 2024 Curated Fringe. Lowry Yankwich reviews.

Lowry Yankwich

Sep 26, 2024 Reviews 3 minute read

In shorts and a black bathing suit, Galinat stands with their head tipped back, yelling, in front of a projected beach image

Philly Fringe 2024: Kaila Galinat presents ok, bye!: a show about rejection

The truth about breakups

New York solo artist Kaila Galinat made her Philly debut in this year’s Fringe with ok, bye!, a standout show that fearlessly explores the universally human experience of rejection. Alaina Johns reviews.

Alaina Johns

Sep 24, 2024 Reviews 3 minute read

The blue-lit actors toast each other with forks. Words projected behind them say "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels"

Philly Fringe 2024: Interrobang Productions presents Katie Hileman’s I Will Eat You Alive

A body liberation banquet

A Baltimore-based theater company makes its Philly debut with I Will Eat You Alive: A Play in the Form of a Dinner Party, a pro-fat manifesto tackling the cruelties of body discrimination. Alaina Johns reviews.

Alaina Johns

Sep 24, 2024 Reviews 4 minute read

In color-coordinated tights, bloomers, Chuck Taylors & football jerseys, the grinning actors wave pompoms like cheerleaders

Resident Ensemble Players presents The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised] [Again]

Massaging and massacring the Bard

Delaware’s Resident Ensemble Players opens its season with The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised] [Again], mixing sketch and farce for a dizzy and hilarious presentation of the beloved tribute. Gail Obenreder reviews.

Gail Obenreder

Sep 24, 2024 Reviews 4 minute read

Dana, with his back to us in a white tee, boots, fatigues and gun, sits facing Gillespie, in similar clothes, looking worried

Philly Fringe 2024: Zaina Yasmin Dana’s Othello (vs the Military Industrial Complex)

Reimagining Othello as a Palestinian in the IDF

This bold and ambitious adaption of Othello from Philly-based Palestinian director Zaina Yasmin Dana weaves the original text with the modern realities of an ongoing war with mixed but impressive effects. Krista Mar reviews.

Krista Mar

Sep 23, 2024 Reviews 3 minute read

The ensemble of 7 women, in a variety of outfits, pose smiling on the White House set, with the Presidential seal above them.

The Arden Theatre presents Selina Fillinger’s POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive

A faulty feminist farce

A lack of laughs and reliance on stereotyping hampers the feminist farce POTUS now onstage at the Arden. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

Cameron Kelsall

Sep 23, 2024 Reviews 3 minute read

The cast of 10, dressed in baggy 90s stripes, plaid, polos, and corduroy, strikes sassy poses on the record-store set.

McCarter presents Carol Heikkinen and Zoe Sarnak’s Empire Records: The Musical

A 1990s cult classic hits the stage

Empire Records bombed when it first came out in 1995, but the soundtrack was a sensation. Now, the movie is a cult classic, inspiring a new musical getting its world premiere at McCarter. An Nichols reviews.

An Nichols

Sep 23, 2024 Reviews 4 minute read

Two Black men in mid-dance, dressed in loose fitted clothes, on a rehearsal stage

Philly Fringe 2024: Fist and Heel presents POWER

Stirring things up with Shakers

Fist and Heel’s Fringe entry merges a variety of dance elements from West African, Black Shaker, and modern dance, and more to imagine the life of Mother Rebecca Cox Jackson. An Nichols reviews.