Tag: William Shakespeare
Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ at The Public Theatre’s Shakespeare in...
An awful lot goes on in William Shakespeare's dream play, but here's all you really have to know. It's set in Athens at first,...
Review: ‘Troilus and Cressida’ at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
Since 2011, the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival has presented one play a year in its “Extreme Shakespeare” series. The concept is to try to recreate...
Avant Bard Announces 2017-2018 Season
The exhilarating musical The Gospel at Colonus returns,
Lauren Gunderson's fiery genius Emilie makes her DC debut,
and Shakespeare's fantastical The Tempest takes the stage by...
Review: ‘Coriolanus’ at Shakespeare in Clark Park
Coriolanus has a reputation for being one of Shakespeare’s least accessible plays. Its title character, a Roman warrior turned reluctant politician, can be hard...
Deb Miller’s Top Picks for the ‘2017 Philadelphia Fringe Festival’
From antiquity to the present, tragedy and drama to absurdism and comedy, masterpieces by classic playwrights to experimental ensemble-devised works by local artists, the...
Review: ‘As You Like It’ at The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
Like all of Shakespeare's plays, As You Like It is filled with rich, quotable language. (This is the one with the “All the world’s a...
Review: ‘The Tempest’ at Annapolis Shakespeare Company
Annapolis Shakespeare Company’s production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest is a colorful, spirited spectacle. Co-directed by Donald Hicken and Sally Boyett, The Tempest is performed outdoors,...
Review: ‘Hamlet’ at REV Theatre Company
Madness is unleashed among the stoic marble and stone memorial markers of iconic Laurel Hill Cemetery as REV Theatre Company, directed by Rosey Hay,...
‘Hamlet’ at Laurel Hill Cemetery: An Interview with Rosey Hay and...
Every year, the REV Theatre Company fills Laurel Hill Cemetery — Philadelphia’s resting place of the rich, the powerful, and the famous — with...
Opinion: ‘Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare, and the Fine Art of Dissent’
It’s a classic art-imitating-life-imitating-art situation: to make a production relevant, the director decks out the cast in modern dress to create the illusion that...
Review: ‘Shakespeare in Hollywood’ at the Stagecrafters Theater
A good American farce is as rare as a diamond. If you can write a crazy comedy that will keep audiences laughing, regional and...
Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ at Hedgerow Theatre
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
And in the case of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, it hits every bump in the road!...
Review: ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ at Exclamation Theater
The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare’s most controversial plays, one that has spurred argument and discord for over 400 years. Is...
Review: ‘West Side Story’ at The Media Theatre
Earlier this season, The Media Theatre presented Shakespeare’s classic Romeo & Juliet. Now they’re concluding their 2016-2017 season with a production of West Side...
Review: ‘The Broken Heart’ at Quintessence Theatre Group
It’s unlikely you will be familiar with John Ford’s The Broken Heart. Like most early 17th century playwrights not named Shakespeare, Ford’s works are...
Review: ‘Love’s Labor’s Lost’ at Quintessence Theatre Group
Quintessence Theatre Group brings William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labor’s Lost, as directed by Alexander Burns, vibrantly to life with spectacular staging, scintillating costumes and a...
Review: ‘Coriolanus’ at Lantern Theater Company
Coriolanus is one of Shakespeare’s least-performed plays – probably because it doesn’t fit easily into any of the standard Shakespearean categories. It’s a tragedy,...
Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ at Arden Theatre Company
In 1998, Arden Theatre Company opened their F. Otto Haas Stage with a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Widely considered one of William...
Interview: Catharine Slusar Returns to Theatre Exile in ‘Lost Girls’
Following her Barrymore Award for Best Actress as Martha in Theatre Exile’s 2014 production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which was preceded by...
From PlayPenn to Lincoln Center: A Conversation about ‘Oslo’ with Paul...
Following its development in 2015 at PlayPenn -- the respected thirteen-year-old Philadelphia-based artist-driven organization dedicated to supporting and fostering new work -- playwright J.T. Rogers’...