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A stage with ornate armchairs & purple-peach backdrop. A man with a shocked face wearing a sweater vest holds a stone wheel

Quintessence Theatre Group presents Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth

Humanity and its discontents
The Skin of Our Teeth, Thornton Wilder’s timeless exploration of society’s follies, receives a digital staging from Quintessence Theatre Group that meets our moment. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

Reviews 4 minute read
Actors Mary Tuomanen, wearing white, and Lindsay Smiling, wearing black, crouch and plot gleefully over a purple flower

The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Lovers, friends, and fairies
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival moves outdoors this season with an ebullient, endearingly goofing staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

Reviews 3 minute read
A performance snapshot of actor Buchanan as he leans out from a gazebo in a greenspace.

Delaware Shakespeare Summer Festival offers three inviting performances

Triple your Bard!
Delaware Shakespeare Summer Festival presents a trifecta. Gail Obenreder previews.
Gail Obenreder

Gail Obenreder

Previews 3 minute read
In dramatic blue lighting, actor Desirée Hall seems to fly in a dragon costume with giant wings, beside a cinderblock wall.

Brian Sanders’ JUNK presents Dragonbutter

The art of the game
Dragonbutter is an inventive hour-long experience from Brian Sanders’ JUNK that inserts participants into a hands-on science-fiction video-game quest. Melissa Strong reviews.
Melissa Strong

Melissa Strong

Reviews 4 minute read

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Jared Chichester as Moses (left) and Davon Johnson as Kitch contemplate what’s waiting for them on the other side. (Photo by Paola Nogueras.)

Theatre Exile and Theatre in the X present Antoinette Nwandu’s ‘Pass Over’

Surviving to the promised land
Theatre Exile and Theatre in the X present ‘Pass Over,’ a story about two young Black men looking to pass over into their imagined promised land. Kyle V. Hiller reviews.
Kyle V. Hiller

Kyle V. Hiller

Reviews 4 minute read
There’s nothing like the polish and precision of a large comedy cast: the ensemble of ‘It’s Only a Play’ at George Street Playhouse. (Image courtesy of George Street Playhouse.)

George Street Playhouse presents Terrence McNally’s ‘It’s Only a Play’

Curtain up on comedy
Terrence McNally’s Broadway-insider comedy ‘It’s Only a Play,’ from George Street Playhouse, will make theater lovers laugh till they cry. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

Reviews 3 minute read
(Image courtesy of Quintessence.)

Quintessence presents Thornton Wilder’s ‘The Seven Deadly Sins’

The wonders of late Wilder
Quintessence Theatre Group presents ‘The Seven Deadly Sins,’ a rare cycle of Thornton Wilder one-acts, in a radio drama production. Josh Herren reviews.
Josh Herren

Josh Herren

Reviews 3 minute read
Chemistry, grace, and flexibility: Kyle Driggs and Andrea Murillo in ‘Eventide.’ (Photo by Johanna Austin.)

Hand to Hand Circus Festival presents 3AM Theatre’s ‘Eventide’ at FringeArts

A couple’s journey
In-person performance is back, and the Hand to Hand Circus Festival kicked off the reopening at FringeArts with 3AM Theatre’s ‘Eventide,’ a modern circus performance about a young couple discovering themselves. Blair Krassen reviews.
Blair Krassen

Blair Krassen

Reviews 2 minute read
Sharing a special language: Joilet Harris and Mary Martello in ‘Sisters!’. (Image courtesy of Arden Theatre Company.)

The Arden presents ‘Joilet Harris and Mary Martello: Sisters!’

Such devoted sisters
Stalwart Philadelphia performers chronicle their decades-long friendship in 'Sisters!,' a virtual cabaret
produced by Arden Theatre. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

Reviews 4 minute read
A masterclass in emotional vulnerability: Laiona Michelle as Sugar in 'Tiny Beautiful Things.' (Image courtesy of George Street Playhouse.)

George Street Playhouse presents Nia Vardalos’s ‘Tiny Beautiful Things’

Discovering Dear Sugar
The power of truth-telling is on display in ‘Tiny Beautiful Things,’ the stage adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s best-selling book. Brad Rothbart reviews.
Brad Rothbart

Brad Rothbart

Reviews 3 minute read