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Three actors conspiring in fanciful, somewhat creepy masks, two with hats and one with a wild gray curly wig.

Quintessence Theatre Group presents Shakespeare’s The Tempest

A well-masked effort

Quintessence Theatre Group combines creative casting, minimalistic design, and a whole lot of masks for its ambitious production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Jill Ivey reviews.

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Mar 07, 2023 Reviews 3 minute read

Castro and Canales dance gleefully with arms outstretched, on a red & blue lit stage with leafy trees looming in the dark.

Azuka Theatre and Teatro del Sol present AZ Espinoza’s All My Mothers Dream in Spanish

Azuka teams with Teatro del Sol for the world premiere of AZ Espinoza’s All My Mothers Dream in Spanish, a magical exploration of ancestry and healing that’s also very much of the moment. Krista Mar reviews.

Krista Mar

Mar 06, 2023 Reviews 4 minute read

Marable as Thurgood, in a blue suit & glasses, leans on a large table, the words Brown v Board of Education projected behind

People’s Light presents George Stevens Jr.’s Thurgood

Equal justice under the law

People’s Light stages this informative and engaging one-man drama about lawyer Thurgood Marshall, who became the first Black justice on the US Supreme Court. An Nichols reviews.

An Nichols

Feb 27, 2023 Reviews 2 minute read

A menacing, cigar-waving Greer, in a khaki suit, lectures a dismayed Scharfman, in blond coif and fancy floral dress..

The Walnut presents Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Life and death in the Deep South

Big Daddy steals the show in Walnut Street Theatre’s new production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

Cameron Kelsall

Feb 23, 2023 Reviews 3 minute read

Mikel, a Black woman, costumed in green velvet as Franklin. Anderson and Gisela pose beyond in lush colonial garb.

The Kimmel Cultural Campus and the Shubert Organization present the new national tour of 1776

When “Cool, Considerate Men” aren’t men at all

It’s fitting that the new national tour of 1776 (without any cis men in the cast) is getting started here, in the city where it happened. Jill Ivey reviews.

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Feb 21, 2023 Reviews 4 minute read

Gold and Soro stand close together in as similar pose, both pointing at and staring at something far away.

Inis Nua Theatre Company presents Zinnie Harris’s Meet Me at Dawn

Beyond the coastline

Inis Nua brings a popular Scottish playwright to the Philly stage with Meet Me at Dawn, but the performance is more moving than satisfying. C. M. Crockford reviews.

C.M. Crockford

Feb 21, 2023 Reviews 3 minute read

Makoto, an Asian man, kneels and flamboyantly holds out a plate to Claire, a white woman, in front of their large beige couch

Philadelphia Theatre Company's Empathitrax is an unrealistic and irresponsible portrayal of mental illness

Spreading the anguish

The regional premiere of Empathitrax, now onstage at Suzanne Roberts, deals in troubling tropes of depression without preparing its audience. Alaina Johns considers.

Alaina Johns

Feb 21, 2023 Editorials 6 minute read

In a large gray living room, a woman huddles miserably on the couch while a man pulls a large curtain on the back wall.

Philadelphia Theatre Company presents Ana Nogueira’s Empathitrax

Better loving through chemistry

Philadelphia Theatre Company’s Empathitrax tests the limits of love and pharmaceutical intervention. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

Cameron Kelsall

Feb 17, 2023 Reviews 3 minute read

Hall & Jackson, playing 2 Black teens in 90s wear, face each other in a bedroom, hands touching in what might be a greeting

Hedgerow Theatre Company presents Ngozi Anyanwu’s Good Grief

How do we document sorrow?

Good Grief, in its regional premiere at Hedgerow Theatre Company, offers a sometimes touching, mostly frustrating, portrayal of grief. Kiran Pandey reviews.

Kiran Pandey

Feb 14, 2023 Reviews 3 minute read

Sesay and Bey, two Black actors, speak intently to each other while sitting on a yellow couch, their hands clasped together.

Theatre Exile presents Loy A. Webb’s The Light

A difficult proposal

It should be a wonderful night for Rashad and Genesis, but the couple’s complicated pasts come to the surface as they face their future in Theatre Exile’s production of The Light. Corey Qureshi reviews.

Corey Qureshi

Feb 13, 2023 Reviews 3 minute read

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