March 2017 – reclining standards

THEATER REVIEW: In the Wilma’s Adapt!, Immigration Even Pre-Trump Is No Picnic

Blanka Zizka’s playwriting debut showcases her considerable skills… as a director.

Walnut Street’s production captures the arch surface of Wilde’s script, but not its anarchic zing.

Songs and spectacle win our hearts in this Rodgers and Hammerstein classic.

This playful take on Agatha Christie’s mystery delivers more chuckles than chills.

The best of this viscerally thrilling but interpretively odd take on Shakespeare’s play is very fine indeed.

A terrific cast scores in Nicky Silver’s coruscating, hilarious comedy.

I disagree with many of Sam Gold’s directorial ideas—yet I’ve never seen a production that feels so devastatingly right.

Arin Arbus’s gripping, entertaining production misses some of Thornton Wilder’s humanity.

An improbably delightful adaptation of the grimmest of all English-language dramas.

In this extraordinary sensory experience, the human dimension sometimes fades into the background.