CHAOS THEORY is an immersive, game-theater experience that transforms the complex science of chaos theory into a series of playful games and stories exploring the underlying chaos of workplace romance, Jurassic Park, and the ultimate chaos: middle sc …Read more
From vinyl release parties to Buzzfeed quizzes that reveal which early 2000’s boy band you are, millennials are in the market for nostalgia. This romanticization of the past has us all chuckling about the endless hours we once spent starting at the A …Read more
Lester Bangs, the iconic, diehard rock ’n roll music critic of the 1960s and ‘70s, is both the unwilling subject and the fast talking narrator of How to Be a Rock Critic, now playing at the Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival. Bangs, most famou …Read more
Watching Thunderstorm 2.0, at the Public Theater’s Under The Radar Festival, is like watching a thunderstorm out in nature, if real thunderstorms could actually get the lights and the sound to match up. Perhaps it is because we are living in the age …Read more
Ever since Hamilton we’ve been asking ourselves what goes in “the room where it happens.” Bulldozer: The Ballad of Robert Moses gives us a brutal, rollicking peek. The story, as told by Peter Galperin (concept, music, lyrics and book) and Daniel Scot …Read more
Strength and Longing, a program consisting of four ballets presented by the Pennsylvania Ballet at Merriam Theater, lives up to its name in both muscular and atmospheric tone. The evening provides both modern ballets and throwbacks to bygone eras si …Read more
Annie Wilson’s Lovertits, presented by Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series, is not for the prudish. Under Wilson’s direction, performer/creators Christina Gesualdi, Jenna Horton, and Ilse Zoerb walk a thrilling line between pedestrianism and th …Read more
#therevolution, directed by Seth Rozin and presented by InterAct Theatre Company at their new home at The Drake, is bubbling with ideas. Like all good satire, it is not so hard to imagine a world in which the events that initiate revolution in the p …Read more
Escuela, written and directed by Guillermo Calderón and presented at Philadelphia’s FringeArts, asks us to think long and hard about what we need to learn in order to impact the world around us. It is at once a guide to becoming a revolutionary in a …Read more
Toshiki Okada’s God Bless Baseball, performed in Japanese and Korean with English subtitles at Philadelphia’s FringeArts, is a masterful exploration of the dangers of leaving home, or least home plate. Through the eyes of two baseball-curious laymen …Read more
