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 […]
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.
