In an era when children’s entertainment is often a flamboyant bonanza constantly bombarding the senses, The Very Hungry Caterpillar show feels refreshingly personal and unassuming. The set, costumes, and script are modest, but colorful, and the produ …Read more
Funnyman and theatre geek extraordinaire Ben Cameron is back with an all new season of Broadway Sessions (Thursday nights at The Laurie Beechman Theatre), after a successful hosting appearance at the very first BroadwayCon, Cameron will bring some of …Read more
Lawrence Edelson, founder and producing artistic director of American Lyric Theater (ALT) wears many hats in the opera world and beyond. For the past nine years, ALT’s Composer Librettist Development Program (CLDP) has been a vital and important par …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
Infrequent yet ominous piano music penetrates a summer retreat, crammed with the accouterments of artistic craft and disharmony. Adolph (Josh Tyson), an artist belittled by a desperate love for his writer wife Tekla (Elise Stone) and the tangled webs …Read more
In a locker/meeting/breakfast/lunch/living room of a car manufacturer in Detroit, signs cover the walls: “No Gambling”; “No Smoking”; “No Playing Music”. A strict “stop and search policy” is enforced upon the workers passing through the room each day …Read more
With an impressive résumé that includes hits such as Emma and Jane Eyre, the award-winning lyricist, composer, and librettist Paul Gordon takes great pride in shining a spotlight on the classics. His most recent work, Daddy Long Legs, which has the d …Read more
A Dream of Red Pavilions is one of the four the most famous works of traditional Chinese literature, the other three being Journey to the West, The Tales of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin (All Men are Brothers), but little known outside of Asia. …Read more
As Sojourners begins, we see a very pregnant Abasiama (Chinasa Ogbuagu) in her house, as she has a conversation with her belly. Wondering what to eat, there’s a sense of restlessness in how she moves from the living room to the kitchen, and how she l …Read more
It seems that the older we get, the less we understand our parents, even if aging would suggest that adulthood would in fact connect us more to them. In Richard Greenberg’s Our Mother’s Brief Affair siblings Abby (Kate Arrington) and Seth (Greg Kelle …Read more