Post Tagged with: "Plays and Players Theatre"

One of the thrills of an August Wilson play is the atmosphere surrounding the story, as much as the story itself. Particularly in the 10-part Century Cycle chronicling the African-American experience during the 20th Century, the mood and the era are key elements. Plays & Players production of the second [...]

Most of us can agree this has been a really stinky year of national political bickering and power plays amid hollow promises, high unemployment, and a recession. So, none of us are feeling any too enthusiastic as we trudge through our day like Eyeore, who has just lost his tail. [...]

SUPERHEROES WHO ARE SUPER is one of two reader’s theatre style productions currently playing in the Skinner Studio at Plays and Players in Philadelphia. (The other, the Hear Again Radio Project, will be the subject of another review next week.) SUPERHEROES is a staged reading of a classic comic book, [...]

You have to see the wonderful pair of shoes that Arty (Gavin Becker) wears in several scenes during LOST IN YONKERS on the diminutive third floor stage at Plays & Players. Is that the best I can say about this Pulitzer Prize winning play by Neil Simon? Absolutely not!  It [...]

The lengths to which one will take use of violence in asserting one’s passions seems quite adequately addressed in Theatre Exile’s blood-infused production of THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE. This fifth in a series of eight plays as part of this year’s Philadelphia Irish Theatre Festival is written by Martin McDonagh. [...]

The following is the final article about “On Stage Philadelphia – Philly Fringe Previews” at Plays and Players in Philadelphia. The third installment of the Philly Fringe Preview at the Plays and Players Theater once again showcased what is great about the Philly Fringe Festival…every discipline of the performing arts [...]

The following is the second of 3 weekly articles about “On Stage Philadelphia – Philly Fringe Previews” at Plays and Players in Philadelphia. Week 2 of the Philly Fringe Preview at Plays and Players showcased the more non-traditional theatre performances that we all associate with Philly Fringe. There were 10 [...]

The following is the first of 3 weekly articles about “On Stage Philadelphia – Philly Fringe Previews” at Plays and Players in Philadelphia. Plays and Players Theater in Philadelphia hosts a very unique entertainment experience each year. “On Stage Philadelphia” is a preview of the very popular Philly Fringe Festival, [...]

Plays and Players’ current production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s CAROUSEL takes us back to a time when women had fewer choices, their options were limited, and they were judged in the black and white categories of good (wives and cosseted maidens) and bad (women who gave in to love and dreams). [...]