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Andre G. Brown & Ontaria Kim Wilson onstage in an artist studio. She has hands on hips. He gestures as if at a big painting.

EgoPo Classic Theater presents Alice Childress’s Wine in the Wilderness

An artist’s perspective

EgoPo Classic Theater offers a rich portrait of connection through art in Alice Childress’s Wine in the Wilderness. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

Reviews 3 minute read
Katharine Powell playing Blanche onstage at the Arden. She wears a sheer white dress and looks down pensively.

Arden Theatre Company presents Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire

The cluelessness of strangers

The Arden Theatre Company’s long-delayed staging of A Streetcar Named Desire lacks realism and magic. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

Reviews 4 minute read
Three women, one holds a newspaper. Another looks at the paper in surprise. The other laughs, looking at the one w/ the paper

The Weekly Roundup, December 15-22

Carols after a Plague, Once, EQUATORS, and a Crossroads holiday

Holiday happenings throughout the week with Crossroads Comedy Theater, 1812 Productions, the Crossing, and more. Kyle V. Hiller rounds up.
Kyle V. Hiller

Kyle V. Hiller

Previews 3 minute read
Scott Greer and Jennifer Childs singing onstage together with a yellow-fringed red curtain behind them.

1812 Productions presents Jennifer Childs and Scott Greer’s Two Outta Three

Staging the empty nest

In Two Outta Three, Jennifer Childs and Scott Greer become empty nesters and explore what's next with their signature humor and charm. Jill Ivey reviews.
Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Reviews 3 minute read
Actor Cassie Beck, a white woman, wears a yellow blazer and holds a pocket-sized US Constitution, in front of a US flag

McCarter Theatre Center presents Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me

Seeing yourself in the Preamble

In What the Constitution Means to Me, playwright Heidi Schreck examines the personal and political intersections of our country’s laws. Cameron Kelsall reviews an engagement of the national tour at McCarter Theatre Center.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

Reviews 5 minute read
A group of about six women dressed in Nutcracker inspired outfits tap dance on stage, captured mid-song.

The Weekly Roundup, December 8-15

‘LESS IS MORE’, Looking for Light with IJ, ‘Tapcracker’ and other holiday festivities

Unique takes on holiday classics, an online concert from Intercultural Journeys,, art from Makeba Rainey, and more this week. Kyle V. Hiller rounds up.
Kyle V. Hiller

Kyle V. Hiller

Previews 5 minute read
An image of a man in casual clothes in a rehearsal space. It's imposed over another image, it's blurry w/ dancers rehearsing

Team Sunshine returns with The Sincerity Project #4: Cyclones, Schools, and Packs

Theater examines the action of care

Team Sunshine Performance Corporation returns with the fourth installment of The Sincerity Project, its 24-year-long artistic experiment that uses performance to explore the shifting contours of contemporary life. Melissa Strong previews.
Melissa Strong

Melissa Strong

Previews 2 minute read
Four actors dressed like Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Cash, on a vintage musical stage

Delaware Theatre Company presents Million Dollar Quartet

Whole lotta shakin' goin' on!

Million Dollar Quartet from Delaware Theatre Company looks to shake things up with a jukebox musical performance inspired by 1950s rock-and-roll. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Gail Obenreder

Gail Obenreder

Reviews 4 minute read
A candle burns, wax dripping down the candle taper. Behind it, an angel appears through blue and white smoke.

People's Light and Hedgerow Theatre present their takes on A Christmas Carol

Two carols are better than one

People's Light and Hedgerow Theatre perform A Christmas Carol, but in two very different ways. Gail Obenreder reviews the two productions.
Gail Obenreder

Gail Obenreder

Reviews 6 minute read
Ngozi Anyanwu and Steven Rishard in Garbologists. Costumed as sanitation workers, they talk inside the cab of a trash truck.

Philadelphia Theatre Company presents Lindsay Joelle’s The Garbologists

Trash talkers

The Garbologists, a world premiere from Philadelphia Theatre Company, searches for deep meaning in a dirty job but offers a fairly thin character study instead. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

Reviews 3 minute read