To a liberal New Yorker, the Tea Party is all that is wrong with America. But what if the opposite were also true? Wouldn’t a Tea Partier say the exact same thing of liberals? In Rich Orloff’s documentary-style play, Chatting with the Tea Party, the …Read more

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

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

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

One enters the story told in The Millay Sisters by way of a sort of tipsy stumble. Rachel Murdy, playing the role of Norma Millay, serves as emcee in a nostalgic cabaret type of set-up, singing songs from the early twentieth century to the piano acco …Read more

Say what you will about Donny, he’s a showman. A teen magician, Donny (played by the magnetic Harry Farmer) is deluded in his abilities, he’s blinkered to anything beyond the scope of his act, he lacks the ability to connect with others or glean thei …Read more