REVIEW: Dark Shadows: Lucia di Lammermoor at O18 / Opera Philadelphia (for Parterre Box)
If only Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, a setting of Walter Scott’s gloomy novel in which the heroine is traded like a piece […]
REVIEW: Elle Is Other People: Ne Quittez Pas at O18 / Opera Philadelphia (for Parterre Box)
The two-part evening starts arch, but ends in triumph.
REVIEW: Grand Tourists: Duet Recital at O18/Opera Philadelphia (for Parterre Box)
In a delightful song program, Ashley Robillard and Siena Licht Miller show exceptional promise.
REVIEW: Touch the Sky: Sky on Swings at O18/Opera Philadelphia (for Parterre Box)
It would be hard to imagine a better metaphor for O18 than this poignant new opera.
REVIEW: 4Solo at Simpatico—Original Works, Brimming with Originality
A winning evening with local artists telling powerful and eclectic stories.
REVIEW: McCarter’s The Age of Innocence Suffers from an Abundance of Good Taste.
Seen here, Edith Wharton’s bitingly brilliant novel looks elegant, lovely, and largely inert.
REVIEW: Espionage Meets Physics in Lantern Theater’s Hapgood, But No Sparks Fly
Tom Stoppard hurls his cleverness like a javelin. But wouldn’t a truly smart play be about things that matter?
REVIEW: In Kill Move Paradise, We Shall Be Moved
James Ijames’ powerful play and Blanka Zizka’s fabulously theatrical staging must be seen.
REVIEW: In Mary Rose, J. M. Barrie in a Different and Haunting Neverland
A nearly-lost gem of a play gets a glowing revival by the gifted Philadelphia Artists Collective.
REVIEW: The Eccentricities of a Nightingale is a Brilliant Cabinet of Curiosities
An odd play in an idiosyncratic production. But when Tina Brock is onstage, the world is lit by lightning.
reclining standards 