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Spotlight focused on Hoffman mid-song. Behind here are other actors in various cabaret style outfits, more dimly lit, posing

Philadelphia Theatre Company presents Erin Courtney and Max Vernon’s The Tattooed Lady

The body as a canvas

Philadelphia Theatre Company launches its 2022–2023 season with new artistic directors and a world premiere musical that shines bright despite a disappointing performance from its celebrity star. Jill Ivey reviews.
Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Reviews 4 minute read
Two women in floral patterned gowns offer a drink in a glass to a man in a pinstriped suit.

Resident Ensemble Players presents Arsenic and Old Lace

A trip back in time

Does the legendary play Arsenic and Old Lace hold up for today's audiences? Gail Obenreder reviews.
Gail Obenreder

Gail Obenreder

Reviews 5 minute read
Scene from the play: Johnson and Nwoko, Black women, smile warily at each other from across a small living room.

Azuka Theatre presents Inda Craig-Galván’s A Hit Dog Will Holler

Activist opposites

The Philly premiere of A Hit Dog Will Holler, onstage at Azuka, contrasts the online and IRL realms of today’s social activists with a special lens on Black women in these spaces. Krista Mar reviews.
Krista Mar

Krista Mar

Reviews 3 minute read
Hirano perches, listening intently, on the back of a couch. Scammell & Conallen stand to the right, both looking grim.

Theatre Exile presents Hansol Jung’s Wolf Play

Ahead of the pack

Theatre Exile presents Hansol Jung’s Wolf Play, a poetically elliptical exploration of family bonds and casual trauma. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

Reviews 3 minute read

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Reed, a white woman with short silver hair and a pale cardigan, speaks while sitting at a desk with her hands folded.

Act II Playhouse presents Mark St. Germain’s Eleanor

Spotlight on the First Lady of the World

Actor Penelope Reed brings iconic First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to life in the regional premiere of this powerful one-woman show by Mark St. Germain, now onstage at Act II. SaraKay Smullens reviews.
SaraKay Smullens

SaraKay Smullens

Reviews 4 minute read
Baldwin-Browns, seen in profile in a mustard-colored top, sits in an elementary classroom chair desk, looking worried.

Curio Theatre Company presents Johnna Adams’s Gidion’s Knot

An untangled knot

Sensitive subjects get short shrift in Gidion’s Knot, which opens the season at Curio Theatre Company. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

Reviews 3 minute read
Lieberman, a white woman with brown hair, leans on a shiny wooden bar with a golden pint of beer at her right elbow.

Inis Nua Theatre Company presents Yasmine Akram’s 10 Dates with Mad Mary

A date worth keeping

Inis Nua’s Pop-Up Play in a Pub series returns with new leadership, and the lively American premiere of 10 Dates with Mad Mary. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

Reviews 3 minute read
6 Black men playing 1940s Air Force members, in tan military uniforms, pose onstage in front of a blue-lit backdrop & US flag

Delaware Theatre Company presents Layon Gray’s Black Angels Over Tuskegee

A brilliant brotherhood

Delaware Theatre Company mounts writer/director Layon Gray’s Black Angels Over Tuskegee, a show about the men who trained to become the US Air Force’s first Black pilots. Jeannine Cook reviews.
Jeannine A. Cook

Jeannine A. Cook

Reviews 5 minute read
Apple, auburn curly hair pinned up, leans smiling over Brannau, who gazes dreamily in a pocket mirror, one hand on her cheek

Arden Theatre Company presents Tennessee Willliams’s The Glass Menagerie

Broken glass

The Glass Menagerie is a delicate masterpiece, but falls flat due to misunderstanding in the Arden’s season opener production. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

Reviews 4 minute read
Dynamic boxing scene onstage, Amira’s pale muscled body flies back as if punched by Parker, who's in US-flag pattern shorts

The Walnut Street Theatre presents Rocky the Musical

Predictable entertainment

The short-lived Broadway musical adapted from the iconic film comes to the Walnut Street Theatre eight years after its limited Broadway run. Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer reviews.
Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer

Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer

Reviews 5 minute read