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The Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Festival presents Pancake Queen

Pouring over history

Theatre Exile and STARFIRE bring Brie Knight’s play to life at this year’s Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Festival. An Nichols previews.

An Nichols

Jul 31, 2024 Previews 2 minute read

4 actors stand on the ground, 3 of them gesturing to another who perches on high top of two people vertically stacked.

New York Circus Project presents Hamlet at FringeArts

A high-flying Hamlet takes risks

New York Circus Project’s Hamlet put an inventive circus spin on Shakespeare’s well-known tragedy with performances at Philly’s FringeArts in late July. Melissa Strong reviews.

Melissa Strong

Jul 30, 2024 Reviews 4 minute read

The 4 actors, with different skin tones & genders, pose together in bright, casual summer clothes next to a tree in a park.

Shakespeare in Clark Park presents As You Like It

Annual summer favorite Shakespeare in Clark Park brings the Forest of Arden to West Philly in an energetic new adaptation of As You Like It directed by Ontaria Kim Wilson, running through July 28. It’s free! C.M. Crockford reviews.

C.M. Crockford

Jul 25, 2024 Reviews 4 minute read

All 4 performers outside in a park smiling and laughing, looking towards Kanu’s character. Lindner holds a mandolin

Shakespeare in Clark Park presents As You Like It

A little taste of dystopia

Shakespeare in Clark Park presents As You Like It with a modern twist, transposed to near-future Delaware to explore themes of exile, love, and community. Kiran Pandey previews.

Kiran Pandey

Jul 24, 2024 Previews 2 minute read

Selfie of Docherty in a booth with lighting consoles and monitors behind her, a stage can be seen through a window

The art of lighting design with Alyssandra Docherty

Lighting up the space

Freelancer Alyssandra Docherty talks about her work as a lighting designer, how the light bulb got turned on for her, and how she manages to keep learning and growing. Melissa Strong previews.

Melissa Strong

Jul 24, 2024 Profiles 4 minute read

Johnson, a Black woman wearing a long flowered skirt & striped blouse, sings passionately with her hands outspread.

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival presents Alice Walker’s The Color Purple

Celie’s story comes to the Center Valley stage

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival mounts an excellent production of The Color Purple with acclaimed local director Amina Robinson,
but the show glosses over some of the difficult moments so important to this story. An Nichols reviews.

An Nichols

Jul 23, 2024 Reviews 6 minute read

Atop a multi-tiered outdoor stage against a dimming evening sky, the actors pose in brown robes with yellow accents.

Delaware Shakespeare presents Julius Caesar

This textual triumph is especially stirring in an election year

Delaware Shakespeare opens its 22nd year with a finely mounted production of Julius Caesar—one of the Bard’s shortest and darkest plays—in Wilmington’s atmospheric Rockwood Park. Gail Obenreder reviews.

Gail Obenreder

Jul 22, 2024 Reviews 4 minute read

Canales, in flamboyant orange 60s garb, gleefully tips a leopard-printed Greer, scared by Peakes, into a canvas cart.

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival presents The Merry Wives of Windsor

Shakespeare did it first

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival brings a thrillingly modern tenor to The Merry Wives of Windsor, which comes to life with musical verve and comic effervescence. Kiran Pandey reviews.

Kiran Pandey

Jul 02, 2024 Reviews 4 minute read

O'Hanlon-Rodriguez in performance, in cowboy attire, steps onto stage in front of the audience, their face wide with exclaim

Studio 34 presents She Was A Conquistawhore

Rachel O’Hanlon-Rodriguez is taking their land back

Rachel O’Hanlon-Rodriguez’s She Was A Conquistawhore at Studio 34 Yoga is a performance that asks how we heal from the erasure of identity. Erin Dohony previews.