Lightning Flashes — I Will Not Go Gently; Krissy Fraelich; Macbeth
OK, so short form is not my metier. Not so much writer’s block — Find me speechless, and look for a murderer. — as needing a vacation from the keyboard … Continue reading
Doctor Faustus — Quintessence at Sedgwick Theatre
Watching Alexander Burns’s creative, engaging production of Christopher Marlowe’s “Doctor Faustus,” I couldn’t help thinking how the learned German scholar squandered the 24 years of pleasure he was afforded by … Continue reading
The Women — EgoPo Classic Theater at the Latvian Society
The opening few minutes of Lane Savadove’s production of EgoPo’s production of Clare Booth Luce’s comic classic, “The Women,” are far from funny and border on the ominous. As the … Continue reading
Death of a Salesman — Curio Theatre
Paul Kuhn’s touching, everyman portrayal of American theater icon Willy Loman would be enough to recommend Curio’s unceasingly perceptive and moving production of Arthur Miller’s modern classic. Kuhn, whether in … Continue reading
The Government Inspector — Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium at Walnut Studio 5
When I was a child, my first inkling that life was different in the Communist world behind the Iron Curtain did not derive from propaganda but from Eastern European … Continue reading
Harvey — Walnut Street Theatre
Harvey, the towering — 6’3″…and a half — invisible rabbit in Mary Chase’s durable 1944 play, is a survivor. He outlasts Veta Louise Simmons’s plot to have him exorcised from … Continue reading
To Kill a Mockingbird — Media Theatre
Respect can be too influential. Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” is one of the established classics of 20th century literature. It is included in many, and probably most, curricula. … Continue reading
Macbeth — Villanova Theatre at Vasey Theatre
Although passages are cut and the story is framed to be a close comparison of the men who might rule Scotland in James J. Christy’s production of “Macbeth” at Villanova … Continue reading
The Mandrake — Quintessence Theatre Group at Sedgwick Theatre
Niccolo Machiavelli goes way past the already questionable conundrum about ends justifying means. In the Machiavellian universe, ends are everything. The means don’t have to be justified. They only have … Continue reading
Les Misérables — Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
Regional theater productions of the perennial Broadway staple, “Les Misérables,” have confirmed how durable Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, and Herbert Kretzmer’s musical adaptation of Victor Hugo’s 19th century epic is. … Continue reading
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