Quickie Capsules — Exit Strategy (PTC) and Twelfth Night (Annenberg)
Some of these shows will receive more detailed reviews. Others are about to close and rate mention, this early 2016 being an odd with several interesting failures in which an … Continue reading
More Quickies: Hans Brinker, Wonderful Life, This is the Week That Is
HANS BRINKER AND THE SILVER SKATES, Arden Theatre, 40 N. 2nd Street, Philadelphia, through January 31 — I read at the age of two and, like most children, was attracted … Continue reading
Disgraced — Philadelphia Theatre Company at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre
Ayad Akhtar pierces through the polite, and often meant, niceties by which we hide our true sentiments in this well-behaved politically correct world. “Disgraced’s” Amir Kapoor, née Amir Abdullah, was … Continue reading
Quickies on the Current — Ainsleys, Children’s Hour, Comedy of Tenors, Disgraced
To keep up with the glut, here is a listing of plays running currently in the Philadelphia region and some quick comments about them. ANTIGONE — Wilma Theater, Broad and … Continue reading
Macbeth — Arden Theatre
Ian Merrill Peakes’s Macbeth at Philadelphia’s Arden Theatre shows less ambition than dissatisfaction. Nothing is ever good enough for him. He can’t be content with what he has. When Banquo … Continue reading
The Dangerous House of Pretty Mbane — InterAct Theatre at Adrienne
As the host of the World Cup in 2010, South Africa is eager to show the progress the country has made in terms of equality and human relations during the 20 … Continue reading
This Is The Week That Is — 1812 Productions at Plays & Players
What a difference a season makes! Last spring, 1812 Productions moved its annual “This Is The Week That Is” from the holiday slot to April. The show had zing to … Continue reading
This Is the Week That Is — 1812 Productions at Plays & Players
Realizing that a $2.5 million fine may be chump change, or something akin to minimum wage for disgraced billionaire Donald Sterling, the cast of “This Is the Week That Is,” … Continue reading
The Exonerated — Delaware Theatre Company
When Ryan Ferguson was released from a Missouri prison in November after spending almost 10 years locked up for a murder he did not commit and for which there was … Continue reading
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