What happens when respected playwrights like Lauren Gunderson and David Henry Hwang team up with 1st Stage to produce an online reading of seven plays written by teens from around the county... Read more
Written on an accelerated schedule (commissioned in June 2020 and ready in August 2020), then cast, rehearsed, and produced by five companies across the United States by December 2020, Sunda... Read more
Taking their show on the digital road for the first time, Silhouette Stages celebrates the theatre’s past 17 years with the New Ways to Dream, streaming through December 6, 2020. A look back... Read more
In anticipation of the holidays, PBS recently aired Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of “Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn” on its long-running Great Performances series. It... Read more
Updated slightly for the Zoom, socially-distanced theatre era we’re in, “The Courage to Right a Woman’s Wrongs” is a fun romp from the 17th century that has a subtle touch of fem... Read more
Once in a while a reviewer is lucky enough to review a pre-production of a new show, and then review it again when it produced for the public. I have been privileged to watch the incarnation... Read more
Theatre-goers surely miss attending musicals, plays, and operas in person during the pandemic. While theaters remain closed, the Philadelphia Opera has launched its 2020-2021 season via stre... Read more
Stage managers rule. In this innovative and imaginative venture that combines theatricality, games, and last-man-standing types of reality shows, the stage managers have gotten together and... Read more
In this imaginative upending of “Hamlet,” We Happy Few has put Ophelia front and center. It’s a refreshing concept, and mostly works pretty well in this new play by Amber Smither... Read more