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

Oct 31, 2022 · Reviews · 3 minute read

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

Oct 27, 2022 · Reviews · 3 minute read

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

Oct 25, 2022 · Reviews · 5 minute read

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

Oct 24, 2022 · Reviews · 4 minute read

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

Oct 14, 2022 · Reviews · 5 minute read

The Wilma Theater presents Tall Order’s Those with 2 Clocks

Comfort and confrontation

More a work of theater than a play, Tall Order’s Those with 2 Clocks, now onstage at the Wilma, is funny, provocative, and beautifully designed. Jill Ivey reviews.

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Oct 11, 2022 · Reviews · 3 minute read

Delaware Shakespeare presents Twelfth Night, O Lo Que Quieras

A truly bilingual musical

This touring Shakespearean reinvention turns Twelfth Night into a winning bilingual musical, integrating script, songs, English, and Spanish into a uniquely accessible and timely performance. Gail Obenreder reviews.

Gail Obenreder

Oct 11, 2022 · Reviews · 4 minute read

Hedgerow Theatre Company presents Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman

The stories we live on

Hedgerow’s production of Martin McDonagh’s disturbing and thought-provoking drama The Pillowman is a worthy Philly-area destination this October. C.M. Crockford reviews.

C.M. Crockford

Oct 10, 2022 · Reviews · 3 minute read

Anastassia Vertjanova and Annemarie Branco present The Living Gallery at Launch Point and Unorthodox Methods of Cosmic Flight

Artful astronauts

The Living Gallery, an immersive, walk-through art installation, hosts Fringe performances of Unorthodox Methods of Cosmic Flight, a charmingly maximalist experience following a pair of wannabe cosmonauts. Jill Ivey reviews.

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Oct 04, 2022 · Reviews · 3 minute read

Quintessence Theatre Group presents Eugène Ionesco’s The Chairs

A seat for the absurd

The Chairs, an early one-act masterpiece of absurdist theater from Eugène Ionesco, opens the 13th season of Mt. Airy’s Quintessence Theatre Group. Corey Qureshi reviews.

Corey Qureshi

Oct 03, 2022 · Reviews · 2 minute read