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Playwright Kash Goins’s script debates more than a “justifiable homicide.” (Photo by Wide Eyed Studio.)

Arden Theatre Company presents Kash Goins’s ‘74 Seconds...To Judgment: A Radio Play’

Still listening for justice

The Arden adapts its 2019 production of ‘74 Seconds… To Judgment’ into a provocative, meta radio play. Kyle V. Hiller reviews.

Kyle V. Hiller

Mar 16, 2021 Reviews 4 minute read

Looking for another living soul: Melanie Julian in EgoPo’s ‘Rockaby.’ (Photo by Kylie Westerbeck.)

EgoPo Classic Theater presents Samuel Beckett’s Rockaby

Time she stopped

EgoPo’s production of ‘Rockaby,’ Beckett’s avant-garde classic, performed for an audience of one, is the perfect anniversary marker of the pandemic age. Jill Ivey reviews.

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Mar 15, 2021 Reviews 4 minute read

Director Steve Tague (bottom row, middle) and members of the REP company perform an audio version of ‘Arsenic and Old Lace.’ (Image Courtesy of Resident Ensemble Players.)

Resident Ensemble Players presents Joseph Kesselring’s ‘Arsenic and Old Lace’

Sounding out a favorite farce

My stars, it’s ‘Arsenic and Old Lace,’ the latest audio production from Resident Ensemble Players. Gail Obenreder reviews.

Gail Obenreder

Mar 09, 2021 Reviews 3 minute read

Untying experiments in streaming theater: Lindsay Smiling in the Wilma’s ‘Expired.’ (Image courtesy of the Wilma.)

The Wilma presents the HotHouse Company’s ‘Expired’ and ‘Lagniappe Project’

Short innovations

The Wilma Theater shows off its versatility with ‘Expired’ and ‘The Lagniappe Project,’ the latest in its HotHouse Shorts series. Brad Rothbart reviews.

Brad Rothbart

Mar 02, 2021 Reviews 4 minute read

Windows on mental illness: a scene from ‘The Manic Monologues.’ (Image courtesy of McCarter Theatre.)

McCarter Theatre Center presents ‘The Manic Monologues’

‘The Manic Monologues,’ an interdisciplinary streaming theatrical experience from McCarter and other partners, enlists actors to tell true stories gathered from people living with mental illness. Brad Rothbart reviews.

Brad Rothbart

Feb 26, 2021 Reviews 4 minute read

Normalized or radicalized? Bi Jean Ngo plays a content moderator in ‘Sin Eaters.’ (Image courtesy of Theatre Exile.)

Theatre Exile presents Anna Moench’s ‘Sin Eaters’

The cost of safety

Theatre Exile’s ‘Sin Eaters’ takes advantage of the digital stage to tell a gripping story about the content moderators who make the internet what it is today. Mina Reinckens reviews.

Mina Reinckens

Feb 22, 2021 Reviews 3 minute read

An Afrofuturistic transmission of Black life in Philadelphia: Anthony Martinez-Briggs and Brandon J. Pierce in ‘Code Black Planet.’ (Image courtesy of the Wilma.)

The Wilma presents the HotHouse Company’s ‘Code Black Planet’ and ‘Clay’

A theatrical laboratory

The Wilma kicks off its 2021 offerings with a new series of streaming shorts from its HotHouse Company, ‘Code Black Planet’ and ‘Clay.’ Josh Herren reviews.

Josh Herren

Feb 15, 2021 Reviews 3 minute read

Can a death bring up beliefs that were hiding underground? (Image courtesy of InterAct.)

InterAct Theatre Company presents Thomas Gibbons’s ‘Steal Her Bones’

Religion and relationships

‘Steal Her Bones,’ a digital premiere from InterAct Theatre Company, offers a compelling portrait of human bonds and the complicated nature of belief. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

Cameron Kelsall

Feb 12, 2021 Reviews 4 minute read

Writer/director Hassan El-Amin (top left) gives notes to ‘Talk About Race’ cast members Elizabeth Heflin, Rene Thornton Jr., Toni Martin, Stephen Pelinski, and Briana Henry. (Image courtesy of REP.)

Resident Ensemble Players presents Hassan El-Amin’s ‘Talk About Race’

There is [not] a Black America

REP’s ‘Talk About Race’ sparks an assortment of conversations through a collection of vignettes in a new audio performance, but does it add anything to those conversations? Kyle V. Hiller reviews.