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Sheppard and Kidwell in “Underground Railroad Game,” which the author considers the best show in this year’s Fringe Festival. (Photo by Tamara Rodriguez Reichberg)

Fringe 2015: One woman's wrap-up

Five times this year’s Fringe Festival made me uncomfortable

Admit it — you didn’t get tickets to a Fringe show because you like knowing what to expect.

Alaina Johns

Sep 22, 2015 Articles 6 minute read

Venus (Hesperus/Phosphorus) reflected in the Pacific Ocean. (Photo by Brocken Inaglory via Creative Comons/Wikimedia)

Lewis Spratlan; Andrew Rudin; Jeremy Gill

Three CDs with Philadelphia connections

Three recent CDs highlight the Philadelphia music scene.

Sep 22, 2015 Articles 4 minute read

First impressions of the United States. (Courtesy of the artist)

Fernando Poyatos: Color Synopsis

The power of color

Color is the heart and soul of Fernando Poyatos’s art, and he does not stint in its use, applying it generously to express emotion and evoke feeling.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Sep 22, 2015 Articles 3 minute read

Arnoldy (with Dibble, left, and Schaefer) gives Tracy a modern twist. (Photo by Mark Garvin)

'High Society' at Walnut Street Theatre (1st review)

High jinks amongst the very wealthy

Romantic comedies set to music have a way of transcending time, so prepare to enjoy High Society even if you can’t really sympathize with the problems of the very rich. But can a modern musical adaption of a popular film ever overcome our memories of the original?

Naomi Orwin

Sep 22, 2015 Articles 3 minute read

The Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Wrath of the Gods

Crime and punishment

Ignoring the gimmicks (and the hyped-up title), this modest show suggestively treats deeply important human themes.

Robert Zaller

Sep 19, 2015 Articles 5 minute read

Rosalind Franklin was marginalized by most of her male colleagues: Watermeier and Perrier. (Photo by Mark Garvin)

'Photograph 51' at the Lantern Theater

Science and personality

Smart people have become the latest species to be put under the microscope of dramatic interpretation. Are they really so different from the rest of us? Photograph 51 at the Lantern Theater shows us how personal insecurities can effect life-changing discoveries.

Naomi Orwin

Sep 19, 2015 Articles 4 minute read

Charming, defensive, and ruthless: Michael Genet as Joe Keller. (Photo by Mark Garvin)

Arthur Miller's 'All My Sons' at People's Light

Fissures in the family

People's Light stages a solid, traditional production of All My Sons in which race is largely beside the point and the characters just happen to be black.

Bill Murphy

Sep 19, 2015 Articles 2 minute read