'Murder for Two' at PTC

It takes two, baby

I wonder if the dazzling performer Kyle Branzel loved the old movies in which Jerry Lewis played multiple characters as much as I did.

Rhonda Davis

Jun 23, 2015 · Articles · 1 minute read

Netflix’s ‘Orange Is the New Black,’ Season 3

Complicated ladies in a complicated place

Now in its third season, Orange Is the New Black returns to see the ladies of Litchfield remaining resourceful and optimistic about their incarcerated future, while battling with problems both inside and outside of the prison walls.

Jessica Friedman

Jun 23, 2015 · Articles · 5 minute read

Renee Blitz's 'Poet of Transparency'

Kafka in the hot tub

Renee Blitz's creations — stories? feuilletons? a unit? — lack what we usually expect of prose, or poetry, or even the customary avant-garde.

Bob Levin

Jun 20, 2015 · Articles · 5 minute read

Orson Welles’s 'The Other Side of the Wind'

The best movie never made?

Orson Welles spent 15 years on a movie he couldn’t complete. The legend is perhaps bigger than the film could have been.

Robert Zaller

Jun 20, 2015 · Articles · 5 minute read

The underpainting of sexism

Artist and helpmeet

Despite changes providing female artists with opportunities similar to those enjoyed by male artists, a structure of sexism continues to exist.

Treacy Ziegler

Jun 16, 2015 · Articles · 5 minute read

Dave Malloy's 'Preludes'

Breaking the block

Who knew that Sergei Rachmaninoff, the great Russian composer, suffered from writer’s block? Dave Malloy’s arresting new Preludes dramatizes the story.

Carol Rocamora

Jun 16, 2015 · Articles · 4 minute read

Jonathan Gottschall’s 'Professor in the Cage'

Trading in dry erase markers for arm bars

Not all men of letters turning 40 buy sports cars.

Rick Soisson

Jun 16, 2015 · Articles · 4 minute read

Ornette Coleman: An appreciation

Time catches up to Ornette

Live long enough, as jazz innovator Ornette Coleman did, and it can help your public catch up to you — even to music like his, which was once well ahead of its time.

Michael Woods

Jun 16, 2015 · Articles · 4 minute read

Mary Tuomanen's 'Hello! Sadness!'

A one-woman show doesn’t have to be about only one woman

What would it be like to be friends with an icon you admire? Mary Tuomanen draws us into the world of her imagination, where she gets to talk to Jean Seberg and Françoise Sagan. Who would you talk to? What would you talk about?

Naomi Orwin

Jun 16, 2015 · Articles · 3 minute read

The spring opera season in Philadelphia

A plethora of operatic options

The 2014-2015 opera season in Philadelphia ends with an array of productions from many eras.

Susan Gould

Jun 16, 2015 · Articles · 5 minute read