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Big changes from small conversations: Darrow and Bush. (photo by T. Charles Erickson)

'Five Mile Lake' by Rachel Bonds

Big smallness in McCarter's Five Mile Lake

Can a play about small, subtle life-changing moments be as satisfying as a play about life-and-death changes? Five Mile Lake says yes.
Mark Cofta

Mark Cofta

Articles 3 minute read
Superhuman dexterity: Jason and Tyrone are both played by Steven Boyer.

Robert Askins's 'Hand to God'

Having the upper hand on Broadway
In Robert Askins’s hilarious, harrowing black comedy, the Devil appears in an unexpected form.

Carol Rocamora

Articles 3 minute read
Cook: "endearing and annoying and exactly what a young man should be who lives on the edge of danger."

‘brownsville song’ by Philadelphia Theatre Company (second review)

Too many young lives lost
Have we turned the tragedies of life into entertainment?
Naomi Orwin

Naomi Orwin

Articles 3 minute read
Ganey (left), Cook: Falling through the cracks.

‘brownsville song’ by Philadelphia Theatre Company (1st review)

No place to hide
“Black Lives Matter” may sound like empty rhetoric. Brownsville song, Kimber Lee’s gritty ghetto drama, may change your mind.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Articles 3 minute read
An odd quartet: Mulhearn, Lambert, Geiger, and O’Brien. (Photo by Mark Garvin)

'Biloxi Blues' at People's Light

Humor rooted in pain
Military comedy gets the Neil Simon treatment.

Bill Murphy

Articles 2 minute read
“Two-and-a-half feet of tubular sex.” (Photo by Matthew Murphy)

'Kinky Boots' at the Academy of Music

Gender identity issues set to music
Kinky Boots, with its catchy tunes and outrageous costumes, has come to Philadelphia at just the right time, to remind us that “you can change the world when you change your mind.” And you can have a good time while you’re doing it.
Naomi Orwin

Naomi Orwin

Articles 4 minute read

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The man I love has got rhythm: Fairchild and Cope in “An American in Paris.” (photo © 2014 Angela Sterling)

'The King and I,' 'An American in Paris,' and 'Something Rotten!'

Too many musicals?
“Too much of a good thing can be wonderful,” Mae West once said. Does that also apply to Broadway musicals this season?

Carol Rocamora

Articles 5 minute read
Let the games begin. (photo by Paola Nogueras)

'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' by Theatre Exile (second review)

Fun and games in academe
Why do some bad marriages last? Perhaps, Edward Albee seems to be saying, because the joy of tormenting each other offers the illusion of happiness.
Naomi Orwin

Naomi Orwin

Articles 4 minute read
A botched attempt to communicate: Scammell and Minora. (photo via theatrephiladelphia.org)

Eugene O'Neill's 'Hairy Ape' at EgoPo (2nd review)

Expressing inequality
The intentions of a playwright and a theater company mesh perfectly as EgoPo presents a visceral, Expressionist production of The Hairy Ape.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

Articles 3 minute read
Bunting and Slusar share a laugh. (photo by Paola Nogueras)

'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' by Theatre Exile (1st review)

The ghosts of Taylor and Burton
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor’s quarreling ghosts must be hovering somewhere over Philadelphia: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and two other Taylor-Burton vehicles are either currently or recently on local stages.

Kathryn Osenlund

Articles 4 minute read