Theater Articles

Recent articles I have written on theater and other live arts:

• 3/20/12 Live from Philadelphia… it’s 4SW Live! (FREE) (Arts America)
• 3/16/12 Twelfth Night at the Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre (Arts America)
• 3/8/12 New City’s TERRORISM Presents a Sardonic Look at Modern Life (Stage Magazine)
• 3/7/12 A Play A Pie and A Pint: Three Things We Can All Like (Stage Magazine)
• 2/15/12 Philadelphia’s BRAT Productions makes the theater of the absurd even more absurd (Arts America)
• 2/11/12 Inis Nua Finds a Home with LITTLE GEM (Stage Magazine)
• 2/7/12 A Valentines Playdate in Philadelphia (Arts America)
• 2/5/12 African American History Month, onstage in Philadelphia (Arts America)
• 1/30/12 Fun for a Night, Hell for a Life: Luna’s Toxically Humorous BACHELORETTE (Stage Magazine)
• 12/11/11 Feliz Navidad! UN VIAJE: A CHRISTMAS JOURNEY at Kensington’s Walking Fish Theatre (Stage Magazine)
• 12/9/11 Annual Philadelphia show salutes seminal TV comedy (Arts America)
• 11/27/11 Old People and Theater (Philadelphia Performing Arts Authority)
• 11/23/11 Wild Bunch in Wild Punch in Kensington (Arts America)
• 11/12/11 A Versatile Acting Showcase in the Renegade Company's THE AMISH PROJECT (Stage Magazine)
• 11/9/11 Fun new theater at Plays and Players (Arts America)
• 11/2/11 Meanwhile . . . a noir-spoof mystery at the Ruba Ballroom (Arts America)
• 11/2/11 InterAct’s THE HOW AND THE WHY is Well Written and Full of Ideas (Stage Magazine)
• 10/28/11 “I see dead artists”: Haley Joel Osment returns to Philly in PTC’s RED (Arts America)
• 10/8/11 Tracy Letts’s AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY: A Modern Great at the Arden (Stage Magazine)
• 9/6/11 A Voyage of Wonder: WHaLE OPTICS at the Live Arts (Stage Magazine)
• 9/1/11 Arts Alive! picks for the 2011 Live Arts and Fringe (Where Magazine Philadelphia)
• 9/1/11 10 Picks for 2011 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe (Philly2Philly.com)
• 8/31/11 Neighborhood Picks for the Philly Fringe (Spirit newspapers)
• 6/4/11 Madhouse Theater Company's PLAYING LENI is Spellbinding (Stage Magazine)
• 6/1/11 Bringing Women’s Voices To The Stage: an interview with Polly Rose Edelstein of Crack The Glass Theatre Company (Philadelphia Performing Arts Authority)
• 6/1/11 Cracking the Glass Ceiling with AN EVENING OF ONE-ACTS (Stage Magazine)
• 5/30/11 'Vigil' and Older Audiences at the Lantern (Broad Street Review)
• 5/23/11 Why's Everyone Such A Critic? Theater People vs. Theater Critics (Philadelphia Performing Arts Authority)
• 5/9/11 Talkin' Irish with Madi Distefano of Brat Productions (Philadelphia Performing Arts Authority)
• 5/7/11 Brat Productions’ CRAIC Fringes the Irish Theatre Fest (Stage Magazine)
• 5/4/11 Commedia, Terrorism, and Royalty: Inis Nua’s DUBLIN BY LAMPLIGHT (Stage Magazine)
• 4/19/11 Amaryllis Theatre Company Brings an Excelente Lydia to the Adrienne (Philaculturati.com)
• 4/5/11 Bleak Complexity: SPEAKING IN TONGUES at the Walnut’s Independence on 3 (Stage Magazine)
• 3/29/11 One Woman, Many Voices: LET ME DOWN EASY at PTC (Stage Magazine)
• 3/23/11 Review of BCKSEET Productions’ Losing the Shore (Philaculturati.com)
• 3/16/11 It’s The End of the World As We Knew It: New City’s PTERODACTYLS at the Adrienne (Stage Magazine)
• 3/14/11 The New and Old of It: Interview with BCKSEET’s Gregory DeCandia (Philadelphia Performing Arts Authority)
• 3/7/11 Contemporary Staging, Timeless Issues: THE CRUCIBLE at the Tri-County Performing Arts Center (Stage Magazine)
• 3/4/11 Lieutenant of Inishmore by Theatre Exile at Plays and Players (philaculturati.com)
• 2/22/11 Don’t worry folks, he’s not like that in real life (or so he claims): Interview with Blasted’s John Jezior (Philadelphia Performing Arts Authority)
• 2/21/11 Great Expectations at the Curio Theater (philaculturati.com)
• 2/17/11 Sarah Kane's Controversial Play 'Blasted' Comes to Philadelphia's Luna Theater Company (philly2philly.com)
• 1/22/11 Musical theater kicks off Mauckingbird Theatre Company’s fourth season (philly2philly.com)
• 1/12/11 California Fresh: New Theater Company Opens in Kensington Arts Space (Spirit Newspapers)
• 10/19/10 Brat Productions Presents 'Carrie' at Underground Arts (philly2philly.com)
• 9/2/10 Theater Picks for the 2010 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe (philly2philly.com)
• 8/29/10 A Queer Midsummer Night’s Dream (philly2philly.com)
• 5/27/10 A Demonic Tour de Force: The Screwtape Letters Returns to the Lantern (philly2philly.com)
• 5/8/10 1812 Productions' An Evening Without Woody Allen, now onstage at Plays and Players (philly2philly.com)
• 3/10/10 Shakespeare in Philadelphia: The Arden’s Romeo and Juliet Introduces a Season of the Bard (philly2philly.com)
• 2/16/10 Bruce Graham Scores Again with Theatre Exile’s Any Given Monday at Plays & Players Theater (philly2philly.com)
• 12/15/09 No Deceit: Lantern Theater’s Scapin is a Treat (philly2philly.com)
• 11/16/09 Conor McPherson’s The Weir: Subtlety and the Supernatural at the Curio Theatre (philly2philly.com)
• 11/13/09 Amaryllis Theatre’s Waiting for Godot: A New Look at a Classic (philly2philly.com)
• 7/26/09 The Right Moves: BalletX’s Summer Series at the Wilma Theater (philly2philly.com)
• 6/15/09 InterAct’s Little Lamb Now Onstage at the Adrienne Theatre (philly2philly.com)