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Penelope waited twenty years for Odysseus to return from the Trojan War. Now she’s ready to share her side of the story – but she’s going to need a drink first. Sharp, funny and unexpectedly moving, this is Penelope's Odyssey.
New Grace McLean!
A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Arden Theatre
A Midsummer Night’s Dream — Arden Theatre
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, Arden Theatre, 40 N. 2nd Street, in Philadelphia, through Sunday, April 9 — The lunatic, the lover, and the poet all seem to have in hand in framing Matt Pfeiffer’s direction of Shakespeare’s merry look at the wayward course of true love and the fickle natures of those who claim to feel ardor and plead fidelity.
The lunatic wins. I’d call Pfeiffer’s production a…
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Christmas: in Story, in Panto, and in Wales; and Found
Christmas: in Story, in Panto, and in Wales; and Found
A line that sticks with me from vintage television echoes through my head today,
“Chatsworth, you’re a lazy boy.”
Well, not so much lazy and busy and tired while adjusting to a new routine and schedule. Not to mention that pinched nerve in my neck that presents cardiological symptoms and that has been a nuisance since 2009!
Either way, I’m behind in my reporting. Add procrastination, another of…
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Peter and the Starcatcher -- Walnut Street Theatre
Peter and the Starcatcher — Walnut Street Theatre
Director Bill Van Horn provides clarity and room for comic ideas to breathe that sets his production of “Peter and the Starcatcher” for a Walnut above any of the previous three I’ve seen. Van Horn’s good choices are evident from the beginning of the show in which characters and the basic situation, two trunks sailing to the same place on two ships being purposely switched, are introduced in a…
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Into the Woods -- Theatre Horizon
The songs from “Into the Woods” are infectious.
Several people I know didn’t like Stephen Sondheim’s score when they heard the first time in the current movie version.
I can’t agree. Since seeing Theatre Horizon’s production, I have been singing, humming, or making an earworm of a wide selection of tunes, each one different. The liltingly rhythmic title number is constantly on my mind. “Children…
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Arthur and the Tale of the Red Dragon -- People's Light
Watching Christopher Patrick Mullen laboring back and forth across the People’s Light stage wrestling with a dragon’s tale sets up the farcical silliness of Michael Ogborn’s latest panto, “Arthur and the Tale (or tail?) of the Red Dragon” with a book by director Pete Pryor and jill of all trades, Samantha Bellomo.
Mullen, playing Merlyn, a character who ages in reverse, is a delight throughout.…
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La Bête -- Arden Theatre
All begins well with Emmanuelle Delpech’s production of “La Bête” at Philadelphia’s Arden Theatre.
That is if you don’t count the gratuitously bizarre antics of Amanda Schoonover as Dorine, the maid, in David Hirson’s treatise on the arts, presented, like French comedy, in rhymed couplets.
Or the clanky, circusy tone of the music in Jorge Cousineau’s sound design.
Ian Merrill Peakes and James…
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