PARTERRE BOX

I Want Your Rex: DF reviews Oedipus Rex + Lilacs at Opera Philadelphia (for Parterre Box)

Opera Philadelphia returns to the stage with an honorable, if not entirely convincing, mixed program.

This audacious and charming new musical is especially welcome for wondrous presence of Victoria Clark.

Katrina Lenk’s Bobbie channels an assertive female persona, but it doesn’t feel fully realized or convincing.

So many of my memories are not simply about shows I loved—they are experiences that literally shaped my life.

This relentlessly upbeat musical about teen suicide raises the question: Is gay without irony even possible?

Morning Sun often feels as occluded and distancing as the austere, featureless set on which it’s performed.

The Lehman Trilogy had me in its thrall from the start. That’s not to say I endorse it wholeheartedly, though.

Who would pay $150 for the privilege to see this schlockfest again, masked and in an uncomfortable chair?

This short but powerful monologue, superbly delivered by Kirsten Quinn, exemplifies the strengths of Irish Heritage Theatre.

This now largely forgotten oddity from the great Nicholas Ray offers Gloria Grahame in two enticing modes.