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Elinor in green and Marianne in yellow, in empire-waisted dresses, look tenderly at each other, sharing a caress.

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival presents Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility

Sisters take the stage

With this adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival breathes new life into a literary classic that even newcomers to Austen will love. Mina Reinckens reviews.

Mina Reinckens

Jul 25, 2023 Reviews 3 minute read

In dramatic blue light & fog on the yellow outdoor stage at dusk, the actors strike different contorted & wary poses.

Delaware Shakespeare presents Macbeth

Welcoming the darkness

North Wilmington’s Rockwood Park, with its own alleged hauntings, makes an appropriately chilling setting for Delaware Shakespeare’s summer outing with the Scottish Play. Gail Obenreder reviews.

Gail Obenreder

Jul 24, 2023 Reviews 5 minute read

Posing together on a low wooden deck, the three characters interact warily in colorful, multi-textured costumes.

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival presents Shakespeare’s The Tempest

The formal tension of Shakespeare’s last storm

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival closes its 2023 season with bold comedic swings and infrequent wonder in an ultimately uneven Tempest. Kiran Pandey reviews.

Kiran Pandey

Jul 18, 2023 Reviews 4 minute read

Tuomanen under a black-light that renders their spiky costume and long gloves in hot neon colors against a blue backdrop.

Applied Mechanics presents Other Orbits

Applied Mechanics produces an interactive, choose-your-own-adventure work of theater in its latest Other Orbits installment, inviting audiences to a convention that is both surreal and oddly familiar. Jill Ivey reviews.

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Jul 18, 2023 Reviews 3 minute read

The three actors, with Mientus in the middle, sing smiling together with arms around each other on a black stage with a piano

Bucks County Playhouse presents Jonathan Larson’s Tick, Tick… Boom!

A first-rate local production

Bucks County Playhouse’s Tick, Tick… Boom! tops the recent film version, with two facts hanging over any version of the show: Jonathan Larson will create the megahit Rent, and he’ll die suddenly right before it opens. Stephen Silver reviews.

Stephen Silver

Jun 27, 2023 Reviews 3 minute read

5 cast members face each other from different sides of the beige-carpeted stage, looking troubled and frustrated.

People’s Light presents Boo Killebrew’s Lettie

An awkward homecoming

Onstage at People’s Light, Boo Killebrew’s Lettie charts one woman’s bumpy road to re-entry after incarceration. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

Cameron Kelsall

Jun 22, 2023 Reviews 4 minute read

On a realistic set of a street in Washington Heights, with a bridge behind, 21 cast members pose singing around the stage

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival presents Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights

A beautiful day in Little Dominican Republic

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes’s In the Heights relies on the life of a neighborhood for its drama, and a smooth, sparkling production from Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival delivers. An Nichols reviews.

An Nichols

Jun 19, 2023 Reviews 4 minute read

A group of five women in all white, expressive, thrash about on stage

Rhodessa Jones presents Once Upon a Time in a Place Called Now

Incarcerated women tell their story

The new show at Painted Bride offers a lens into a collection of stories women shared about their experiences being incarcerated, what common narratives all women share, and how they find their voice. David Block previews.

David Block

Jun 14, 2023 Previews 2 minute read

Tuomanen & Beschler mirror each other, leaning on the pillars of a pier in front of a rich, bright, night-blue backdrop

The Wilma Theater presents William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night

Really reimagined

The Wilma’s new Twelfth Night, from co-artistic director Yury Urnov, promises to “reimagine” Shakespeare (just like every theater company does). But this show has plenty to delight and surprise. Alaina Johns reviews.

Alaina Johns

Jun 12, 2023 Reviews 4 minute read

Lexi in a houndstooth vest and Muroya in a black satin kimono top, facing each other reverently, hands about to entwine.

Tiny Dynamite presents Julia Izumi’s Meet Murasaki Shikibu Followed by Book Signing, and Other Things

Can one good book change the world?

Tiny Dynamite brings the legendary, yet little-known, 11th-century Japanese novelist Murasaki Shikibu to life, alongside a bookstore manager whose own work is closer to the author’s legacy than she knows. Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer reviews.

Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer