DF Reviews The Whale (Theatre Exile, February 2015)
It hit me the minute the curtain went up on The Whale, Samuel D. Hunter’s marvelous, heartbreaking play, in an exceptionally fine […]
DF Reviews Mothers and Sons (Philadelphia Theatre Company, February 2015)
“Sometimes – there’s God – so quickly!,” Tennessee Williams famously wrote. Here, though, He doesn’t show up till 9:15. Roughly 70 minutes […]
DF Reviews Long Live the Little Knife (Inis Nua Theatre, February 2015)
David Leddy’s Long Live the Little Knife, a 2013 Edinburgh Fringe hit now receiving a stylish production at Inis Nua, strikes me […]
DF Reviews Rasheeda Speaking (The New Group at Signature Center, New York, February 2015)
“Can we have an honest conversation about race?” It’s a question I hear with some regularity in my day job in university […]
DF Reviews Lady, Be Good! (Encores, New York, February 2015)
Encores Musicals in Concert opened their current season – the 22nd, if I’m counting correctly – with exactly the kind of show […]
I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard (Atlantic Theater, New York, January 2015)
In Halley Feiffer’s I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard, two damaged egos go at it, though (initially, at least) it’s hardly […]
DF Reviews Doubt (Lantern Theater, January 2015)
The great thing about Doubt, John Patrick Shanley’s slender but effective drama about child abuse in the church, is that our sympathies […]
DF on the Myth and Allure of “Irreplaceable” Performances
A sad truth that’s dawned on me as I’ve gotten older: We may all be, as our doting mothers told us, “unique” […]
DF’s Philadelphia Fall/Winter 2015 Theatre Preview
It’s been a strong Philadelphia theatre season so far, and the Winter/Spring has quite a few more promising events. I’ve compiled the […]
DF Considers Into the Woods On Film… And On Stage
“Slotted spoons don’t hold much soup.” “The prettier the flower, the farther from the path.” “Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor.” To […]
reclining standards 