A&E Acting Out the Messy Business of Writing An involving discussion of success’s costs for artists in a business that depends so much on connections, ass-kissing and dumb luck. email print font size comments 0 share LinkedIn StumbleUpon Tumblr Digg…

A&E Woes of An Escape Artist Houdini’s Wikipedia page provides more excitement about his showmanship than this play. email print font size comments 0 share LinkedIn StumbleUpon Tumblr Digg ChimeIn Delicious Google+ Reddit options ÿ Posted: Thu, Apr. 4, 2013,…

A&E A Boston Southie Clashes With A Lace-Curtain Irishman While definitely a comedy, Good People explores class in America (defined somewhat by race and accent, but mainly by income) with discomforting insight. email print font size comments 0 share LinkedIn…

A&E Theater Reviews: Three Duo-Centric Productions The Arden’s publicity mailers for the show – which played up that Beckett, in addition to being generally acknowledged as the master of modern absurdism, also “drove Andre the Giant to school” – seemed…

A&E Pretty Fire Longtime People’s Light company member Cathy Simpson shines in Theatre Horizon’s latest. email print font size comments 0 options   Posted: Thu, Nov. 8, 2012, 12:00 AM Pretty Fire Through Nov. 18, $25-$31, Theatre Horizon, 401 DeKalb…

A&E email print font size comments 2 options   Posted: Thu, Aug. 9, 2012, 12:00 AM Cymbeline Through August 19, free, Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, 2111 Sansom St. Mark Cofta City Paper [ theater ] Director David O’Connor approaches Shakespeare’s seldom-seen…

A&E email print font size comments 0 options   Posted: Thu, Jul. 19, 2012, 12:00 AM Closing Ceremonies With the Theatre Alliance gone, the future of the Barrymore Awards is murky. Mark Cofta City Paper The old line goes, “The…

A&E email print font size options   Posted: Thu, Mar. 22, 2012, 12:00 AM On the Nose THEATER REVIEW: Cyrano at Arden Theater Company Mark Cofta Email Mark Cofta Spectacle is modern theater’s fork in the road. Broadway musicals skew…

A&E email print font size options   Posted: Thu, Mar. 8, 2012, 12:00 AM Anti-Authority THEATER REVIEW: Quintessence Theatre Group’s Antigone Mark Cofta City Paper Knowing the inevitable doesn’t negate the suspense in Quintessence Theatre Group’s superb staging of Jean…