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University administrator and teacher by day, theater and arts critic by night.

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.

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 […]

Who says you can’t go home again? Pig Iron Theatre is now 20 years old. In that time, the locally based 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 […]

Cabaret, perhaps our most intimate live art form, gets a new series – and a new venue – courtesy of the Arden Theatre Company.

If you go to Steve at Signature Center, by all means, get there early. There’s a captivating preshow concert of musical theatre […]

Ken Ludwig’s comic take on Sherlock Holmes gets a dazzling visual production, though suspense is in short supply.

It could hardly be a more difficult time to open a comedy – even one as popular as This Is the Week […]

Sometimes, a moment can bring into focus something I’ve idly pondered for months. In this case, that thing is Showtime’s hit serial, […]

New idea for a Ticket / Philadelphia Magazine column — snippet reviews of New York shows, along with links to longer reviews (also […]