DF Reviews The It Girl (Simpatico Theatre Project)
This dazzlingly smart, heartbreaking, genre-defying theater piece about the great Clara Bow (and much more) should be seen by every lover of theater and film.
DF Reviews Harvey (Walnut Street Theatre)
In the leading role, Ben Dibble is luminously sweet — but the frantic Walnut Street production sometimes robs Harvey of its gentle charm.
DF Reviews Funnyman (Arden Theatre Company)
Bruce Graham’s play, an over-plotted riff on the behind-the-scenes saga of Bert Lahr in Waiting for Godot, is nowhere near as good as the real story.
DF Reviews The Piano Lesson (McCarter Theatre)
Jade King Carroll’s production hits all the right notes, and actors John Earl Jelks and Cleavant Derricks offer a master class in Wilson style.
DF Reviews A Moon for the Misbegotten (Walnut Studio Theater)
Eugene O’Neill’s last completed play finds true greatness in its second half — and Kate Galvin’s production rises to meet it.
DF Reviews The Hard Problem (Wilma Theater)
Stoppard’s meditation on science, the humanities and other big questions has his familiar dazzle, and Blanka Zizka’s direction is visually brilliant. But sometimes the human dimension gets lost.
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 […]
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