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West Philly’s Curio Theatre Company is closing out their current season with an exceedingly tongue-in-cheek adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES.   The original, written in 1901, was the third of Doyle’s four novels featuring super-sleuth Sherlock Holmes.   As was the custom at the time, the [...]

The next episode of the “Curtain Up!” podcast is now available. Find out what’s opening in and around the Delaware Valley the weekend of May 10, 2013.  Also, you have a chance to win a pair of tickets to see “25th Annual Putman County Spelling Bee” in our trivia [...]

Curio Theatre Company will finish their season with the hilarious Philadelphia premiere of THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, adapted by Steven Canny and John Nicholson from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, performing May 8 through June 1, 2013 (Press Opening Friday May 10th). All shows are at 8pm on Thursdays, Fridays [...]

“One crow sorrow, Two crows joy…Three crows a letter, Four crows a boy.” Childhood memories, we all have them.   And if we have siblings, we tend to relive them whenever we gather.   Some things are crystal clear, others are fuzzy.   Sometimes we disagree on how events played out; and other [...]

Philadelphia PA- Curio Theatre Company presents the world premiere of MADVILLE written by Curio’s Artistic Director Paul Kuhn, performing March 20 ~ April 13. (Press opening Friday March 22). All performances are Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm. Tickets are $15-$20 ($10-$15 for previews) and can be purchased online at [...]

“He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.” ~ Book of Job Curio Theatre Company in West Philly is reviving Peter Shaffer’s 1973 drama EQUUS for the winter season.    The play centers on the explosive encounters [...]

Curio Theatre Company brings to life Peter Shaffer’s Tony Award-winning “modern classic EQUUS, performing January 23rd through February 16th (Press Opening Friday January 25th). All shows are at 8pm on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Tickets are $15-20 (only $10-15 for previews) and can be purchased at www.curiotheatre.org or by calling [...]

Hmm, how does a reviewer write a review of a play that skewers theatre reviewers? West Philly’s Curio Theatre Company has chosen Tom Stoppard’s THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND as a respite from the pressures of the holidays. Directed by Dan Hodge, Stoppard’s comedic payback is running in the company’s new [...]

Following his success last season with Shakespeare’s THE TEMPEST, Dan Hodge returns to Curio Theatre Company to direct Tom Stoppard’s early spoof, THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND, the first full-stage production in its new second space at West Philadelphia’s Calvary Center. A parody of such mainstays of the British murder-mystery genre [...]

“At night I wonder how you are feeling, what you think, if you’re happy, if you can sleep. Even when I pray, I wonder what you’re doing. I look up through a window if it’s recess or listen for your steps in the hall. I can only concentrate if I [...]

It’s been an unsurpassed season for Shakespeare in Philadelphia, with Lantern’s ROMEO AND JULIET, and Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre’s TWELFTH NIGHT and TITUS ANDRONICUS. And Curio Theatre Company’s THE TEMPEST ranks right up there with the best of the Bard. From the opening scene to the final bow, Curio casts a [...]

Kurt Vonnegut was a controversial author, and his 1969 satirical novel SLAUGHERHOUSE-FIVE was no exception. Based very loosely on Vonnegut’s experiences as a POW during World War II, the novel tells the story of Billy Pilgrim, who becomes “unstuck in time.”  The author uses his story to explore the concepts [...]

Dario Fo is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Italian playwright/activist/director, born in 1926. Fo’s works are characterized primarily by criticisms of—among other things—organized crime, political corruption, political murders, Catholic policy on abortion and conflict in the Middle East. His plays often depend on improvisation, Commedia dell’Arte style. He freely gives companies producing [...]

Now, from a troop of shades that last arriv’d, Eurydice was call’d, and stood reviv’d: Slow she advanc’d, and halting seem to feel The fatal wound, yet painful in her heel. Thus he obtains the suit so much desir’d, On strict observance of the terms requir’d: For if, before he [...]

“We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off.    Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.” ~ The Player And that’s pretty much the premise of Tom Stoppard’s absurdist comedy ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD.  Stoppard’s first hit, [...]

Charles Dickens was a prolific writer, and both film and theatre companies have used his pieces as source material. Like several of his novels, Great Expectations was presented in serial form in the publication “All the Year Round” from December 1860 thru August 1861. Readers anxiously awaited month to month [...]

Ah—Mamet. David Mamet first appeared on the country’s radar with his play American Buffalo in 1976; but it was 1984’s Glengarry Glen Ross that truly launched him into the nation’s zeitgeist. His was a style no one had ever seen before—one that has influenced every playwright since. His dialogue, while [...]