Attend the Tale of Audra – Thoughts on NYPO’s Sweeney Todd
Of the many things I love about the theater, near the top is this – shows almost never turn out to be exactly […]
You Can’t Take It With You on Broadway, and Thoughts on American Comedy
Growing up in a theatre family – a Jewish theatre family – I accepted on faith that George S. Kaufman and Moss […]
DF Reviews A Streetcar Named Desire (National Theatre Live, October 2014)
Sometimes – there’s God – so quickly! Sometimes – there isn’t. In the summer of 1974, I saw A Streetcar Named Desire […]
Rediscovering Cy Coleman… And The 11th Hour Theatre Company
Periodically, I try to spend time rediscovering an artist – composer, lyricist, playwright, performer – who I think I may not have […]
DF Reviews The Addams Family (Media Theatre, October 2014)
Sometimes, it’s all about the cast. That’s been the story from the start for Andrew Lippa, Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice’s The […]
DF Reviews La Bête at Arden Theatre (September 2014)
Generally, I like my comedies as I like my martinis – very dry. La Bête is… well, not dry. In fact, it’s […]
Thoughts on Bent, the Philly Fringe, and “Lost” American Plays
In August, when I looked over the Philly Fringe Guide, I noticed a fledgling theatre group, Truth Be Told Productions, making their Philly […]
DF Reviews 9 To 5 at the Walnut Street Theatre (September 2014)
It’s clever of the Walnut Street Theatre folks to program 9 to 5 on the heels of last season’s How to Succeed […]
DF Reviews Intimate Exchanges (1812 Productions)
For nearly two decades, 1812 Productions, founded in Philadelphia by several of our most gifted actors, has been devoted to comedy of […]
In Memoriam: Sandy Wilson
The death of English composer/lyricist/librettist/anecdotalist Sandy Wilson last week wasn’t widely publicized – not even in the British press, although there’s an […]
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