Theater

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 […]

Encores Musicals in Concert opened their current season – the 22nd, if I’m counting correctly – with exactly the kind of show […]

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 […]

The great thing about Doubt, John Patrick Shanley’s slender but effective drama about child abuse in the church, is that our sympathies […]

A sad truth that’s dawned on me as I’ve gotten older: We may all be, as our doting mothers told us, “unique” […]

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 […]

“Slotted spoons don’t hold much soup.” “The prettier the flower, the farther from the path.” “Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor.” To […]

Here’s a lesson to frequent theatre goers who think they know a lot – don’t expect that what established, experienced artists have […]

And God saw the light, that it was good… So the Bible tells us, but I’m not sure you’d know it to […]

On Facebook, I offered a more-or-less ongoing (and more-or-less snarky) commentary about last night’s Peter Pan… but I want to recap my […]