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REVIEW: In Inis Nua’s Our Few and Evil Days, Family History Goes Awry

May 4, 2018

What’s most unsettling here happens quietly in the shadows.

REVIEW: In 1812 Productions’ Hope and Gravity, Romance has its Ups and Downs

May 3, 2018

Michael Hollinger’s funny and clever play could use more gravity.

REVIEW: Thank You for Smoking: Opera Philadelphia’s Carmen (for Parterre Box)

April 30, 2018

How do you like your Carmen? The role – and Bizet’s opera – contain multitudes.

REVIEW: Sing the Body Electric at Theatre Exile is a World Lit by Lightning

April 26, 2018

In Michael Hollinger’s perplexing but enchanting play, getting there is the best part.

REVIEW: In a Streamlined Saint Joan, the Grandeur Goes Up in Smoke

April 25, 2018

With Shaw’s go-big-or-go-home masterpiece, playing it small and safe is not good enough.

REVIEW: A Sparkling and Poignant La Traviata at AVA

April 23, 2018

The vocal standards are high, and the pleasure of discovering new talent always exhilarating.

Six Questions with Daniela Mack, Opera Philadelphia’s Carmen

April 20, 2018

Mack, who opened the season creating a new role, is now back in an iconic one.

REVIEW: Simon Stone’s Yerma, and the Problem with Critics

April 19, 2018

Can we please stop fetishizing female angst as the highest form of acting?

REVIEW: With Madaket Road, a Long, Intriguing Journey Comes to a Close

April 15, 2018

John Guare’s monumental Lydie Breeze trilogy ends movingly, if not entirely clearly.

REVIEW: At Walnut Studio, Andrew Llloyd Webber with Tears but no Chandeliers

April 13, 2018

A rare opportunity to see Tell Me on a Sunday reveals a good idea, flawed in the execution.

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