15 Outstanding Philly Arts Moments in 2015 (for Ticket / Philadelphia Magazine)
Ticket arts writers weigh in on the most important local arts moments of 2015.
DF on Radio Times — The Pervasiveness of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker
Radio Times Program Guests: Beatrice Jona Affron, David Fox This time of year, we are inundated with songs from the unofficial Christmas […]
DF Reviews The Three Maries (Prince Theater)
Michael Ogborn’s musical is at its best when evoking the quirks and follies of our home city, especially the local accent.
DF Reviews Hir (Playwrights Horizons)
Hir, Taylor Mac’s electrifying, take-no-prisoners play, struck me like a bolt of lightening – all the more because only hours before, I’d […]
DF Reviews Gentlemen Volunteers (Pig Iron Theatre)
Who says you can’t go home again? Pig Iron Theatre is now 20 years old. In that time, the locally based company […]
DF Reviews Hedda Gabler (Laurel Tree Theater Company)
Scholars of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler will continue to debate why the protagonist (that’s Hedda, of course) is so profoundly unhappy. But there’s […]
DF Preview — Arden Theatre Cabaret Series (December 2015)
Cabaret, perhaps our most intimate live art form, gets a new series – and a new venue – courtesy of the Arden Theatre Company.
DF reviews Steve (New Group at Signature Center)
If you go to Steve at Signature Center, by all means, get there early. There’s a captivating preshow concert of musical theatre […]
DF Reviews Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (Philadelphia Theatre Company)
Ken Ludwig’s comic take on Sherlock Holmes gets a dazzling visual production, though suspense is in short supply.
DF Reviews This Is the Week That Is (1812 Productions)
It could hardly be a more difficult time to open a comedy – even one as popular as This Is the Week […]
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