Professional Theatre

From the moment Tyne Daly appears on stage commanding the audience to focus on the troubled soul of Katharine Gerard, she shows her extensive theatre and television experience in Terrence McNally’s new play, MOTHERS AND SONS at Bucks County Playhouse. Often best remembered as Detective Mary Beth Lacey in the [...]

Odd-couple type relationships always make for an engaging show premise, especially when the two steadfast characters are portrayed with such chemistry and buoyancy.  The volley of wits between an unlikely pair: the Southern, white, Jewish Miss Daisy Werthan, (played by Susan Dewey), and her enthusiastic yet uneducated African American chauffeur, [...]

“BOOOOOOOOOOO!!! BOOOOOOOOOOO!!!” So begins THE PHILLY FAN, the hilarious collaboration between Theatre Exile, playwright Bruce Graham, and actor Tom McCarthy. The solo show, a Philadelphia tradition since its inception by McCarthy in the 2004 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, is running for the first time at Studio X, Theatre Exile’s intimate space [...]

“Why,” the legendary writer Noel Coward once asked, “am I always expected to wear a dressing-gown, smoke cigarettes in a long holder and say ‘Darling, how wonderful’?” The answer is quite simple: that is the cultivated, urbane and witty persona he established for himself…and the characters he created; through which [...]

GLASS: SHATTERED, The Renegade Company’s innovative, updated deconstruction of Tennessee Williams’ THE GLASS MENAGERIE, combines live theater with film and Freudian self-analysis in its study of a tortured protagonist damaged by a dysfunctional family. Unable to escape the past, Tom–here a filmmaker, not the aspiring poet of Williams’ thinly fictionalized [...]

The Eagle Theatre of Hammonton’s new production of URINETOWN THE MUSICAL is an absolute smash hit! The spunky satire hits a home run right out of the ball park and straight into URINETOWN. Originally produced on Broadway in 2001, URINETOWN had 965 performances and received ten Tony nominations and three [...]

To pee or not to pee, that is the question. That’s enough potty humor. In fact, there is no more. I promise. My wife, daughter and I just attended the opening night of URINETOWN THE MUSICAL at The Eagle Theatre in Hammonton, NJ. Let me say this first: don’t let [...]

The title of Eric Pfeffinger’s SOME OTHER KIND OF PERSON, now in production by Interact Theatre Company, refers to a purposefully misquoted line of Aristotle, that if you act virtuously out of self-interest you cannot be called a virtuous person but “some other kind of person.” Pfeffinger’s characters are never [...]

She’s loud, drunk, and crass—the standard cliché of an American tourist. He’s handsome, reserved, and mature—the epitome of Old World refinement. They meet at a tapas bar in Barcelona, and what was to be a one-night stand at his apartment becomes a cat-and-mouse game of sexual mores, personal biases, international [...]

Almost everyone is familiar with the story of PINOCCHIO, first introduced in the Italian children’s novel of 1883, and the subject of an animated musical movie by Walt Disney in 1940. And that’s the premise of Arden Theatre Company’s new take on the traditional tale; everyone knows the story, and [...]

When teenage wrestling fan Bobby Bibby wins a trip to Art “Crazy Train” Sligo’s final pro match, his grand prize includes joining the dysfunctional Sligo family for a pre-show dinner in their suburban Midwestern home. Set primarily around the dining room table, the hilarious and deeply disturbing tragicomedy AMERICAN SLIGO, [...]

From the moment EgoPo Classic Theater announced that it would stage a new race-reversed version of UNCLE TOM’S CABIN, it has been the subject of much heated debate and controversy. Written in 1852 as a fervent abolitionist statement, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel would soon become the racist stock of blackface [...]

Arden Theatre Company concludes its outstanding 2012-13 season with A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, Stephen Sondheim’s transcendent musical exposé of love, liaisons, and life in 1900 Sweden. At once operatic and intimate, sophisticated and witty, the play made its Broadway debut in 1973, receiving both the New York Drama Critics’ Circle [...]

Andrea McArdle is absolutely marvelous in the title role of  MAME, currently playing at Bucks County Playhouse. The woman who as a child, went from Northeast Philadelphia to Broadway in 1977 as the first “Annie” is simply stunning in the current New Hope Season 2013 opening. McArdle’s voice is rich, [...]

Quintessence Theatre Group closes its third season with its Chocolate & Champagne Repertory of two classics: Martin Crimp’s adaptation of Molière’s THE MISANTHROPE, and George Bernard Shaw’s ARMS AND THE MAN – in rotation Wednesday, April 17 through Sunday, May 26, at the Sedgwick Theater in Mt. Airy. Both productions [...]

At the Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre in 2007, costume designer Millie Hiibel was recognized for her outstanding work as a finalist for the F. Otto Haas Award for Emerging Theater Artist. This followed her 2004 Barrymore nomination for Outstanding Costume Design for Lantern Theater Company’s production of Shakespeare’s [...]

Lantern Theater Company’s Philadelphia premiere of Tom Stoppard’s HEROES, adapted and translated from Gérald Sibleyras’ Le Vent des Peupliers (“The Wind in the Poplars”), is funny and profound and fully relatable; it’s beautifully staged and brilliantly acted. A production like this reminds audiences and critics alike of why they love [...]

In Aristophanes’ ancient Greek comedy LYSISTRATA, first performed in Athens in 411 BC, the men are at war and the women want peace. But the women have no rights in their male-dominated society, so as a negotiating tactic, they block access to the war funds in the state treasury with [...]

As soon as I saw the title of this show, I had to go see it… Walking Fish Burlesque has unfurled its latest entry into the world…be afraid, be very afraid. BLOOD KEGGER ON MONSTER PARTY ISLAND brings back the “scary” duo of Dr. (formerly Countess) Paulina and her faithful [...]

Jane Austen’s books are beloved around the world; they have continued to sell well for over 200 years and her fans are legion. Rose Valley’s Hedgerow Theatre is presenting a stage adaptation of her 1813 novel PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, one of Austen’s most popular works. This version was written by the former [...]