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Actress Rebecca Gibel joined both the audience and the cast outside the Arden Theatre when the fire alarm went off. (Photo by Naomi Orwin)

We’re so used to immersive theater experiences that when the fire on stage sets off a real fire alarm, we think it’s just part of the performance. The audience for Three Sisters at the Arden Theatre had a hard time detaching themselves from the show, accepting that they had been driven out into a cold Russian night.

Naomi Orwin

Apr 03, 2014 Articles 4 minute read

Gertrude Stein, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1935

Lyric Fest presents 'Dear March - Come In!'

A medley of female voices, genus Americana

Lyric Fest presents a musical variety show based on the highly individual voices of American women poets.

Tom Purdom

Apr 03, 2014 Articles 3 minute read

Léa Seydoux (right) in "Blue Is the Warmest Color" (photo © 2013 - Sundance Selects)

'Blue Is the Warmest Color' and 'The Great Beauty'

The view from Europe

Blue Is the Warmest Color and The Great Beauty make excellent companion pieces, presenting a surfeit of gorgeous filmmaking as they bookend two lives in advanced industrial democracies.

Jake Blumgart

Apr 03, 2014 Articles 5 minute read

What about the women? (Yvette Ganier, Keith J. Conallen, Sarah Gliko, Hannah Gold, Melanye Finister; photo by Alexander Iziliaev)

'Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq' at the Wilma (3rd review)

A wounded hero and the fierceness of his victims

Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq is as much about sexual abuse as it is about the wounded veteran. Why aren’t we talking about that?

Naomi Orwin

Apr 01, 2014 Articles 5 minute read

The double bar

When is an ending not an ending?

Kile Smith

Apr 01, 2014 Articles 4 minute read

Philadelphia was one of four cities (along with Miami, Los Angeles, and San Francisco) that commissioned Tal Rosner to create the visuals that accompanied Four Sea Interludes.

The Philadelphia Orchestra plays Benjamin Britten

Britten and friends

Benjamin Britten hovers around the list of the greatest 20th-century composers without quite making the cut, but the somewhat belated centennial anniversary concert conducted by Donald Runnicles made a persuasive case for him.

Robert Zaller

Mar 31, 2014 Articles 3 minute read

Grodin, Udine: A noticeable lack of chemistry. (Photo by Matthew Murphy)

'Phantom of the Opera' at the Academy of Music

Reimagining Phantom

A new production of The Phantom of the Opera, designed to be taken on the road, has been bankrolled by the wealthy man who mounted the original version a quarter-century ago.