Philadelphia playwright Gin Hobbs’ “biting comedy” is about women and their relationships with men, food and their bodies. Best friends Aubrey (Kirsten Quinn) and Veronica (Shelli Pentimall Bookler) strive for self-love and perfection at the gym, but find heartache and…

Shawn May Josh Carpenter as Hamlet Quintessence Theatre Group’s fourth season in Mt. Airy’s Sedgwick Theater starts with a bold pairing of plays in repertory: Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Oliver Goldsmith’s 1773 comedy She Stoops to Conquer. Both prove eminently watchable, and…

Paola Nogueras Unsurprisingly, Amy Herzog’s 4000 Miles is one of America’s most produced plays by regional theaters this season. The 2012 OBIE-winning drama and Pulitzer finalist has an intimate, likable quality, particularly in the Philadelphia Theatre Company’s fine production.  Beth…

Many issues about producing Shakespeare divide people into two camps, and one of the thorniest is faithfulness to the Bard’s intent: One side believes in following historical and stage tradition, the other asserts that interpretive innovation helps make difficult plays…

[Oct. 21] The Philadelphia Artists Collective fills the time between their well-regarded productions — The Sea Plays were a FringeArts hit, and Mary Stuart plays this Spring — with rehearsed readings of lesser-known classics, like this frothy comedy. Playwright Susanna…

[Oct. 18-26] This Tony Award-winning rock musical is the perfect piece for University of the Arts musical theater majors; they’re close to the ages of German expressionist Frank Wedekind’s confused and desperately hormonal teenagers. His 1891 play — controversial then…

Daniel Kontz Theater is especially exciting when a play teaches us how to watch it — when the storytelling is as innovative and fresh as the story.  Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brothers Size, launching the Simpatico Theatre Project’s ninth season,…

Temple Theaters opens its 46th season with the first of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s many collaborations. If you’ve only seen the Oscar-winning 1955 film or a high school production — and who hasn’t? — director Peter Reynolds’ cast of 35 professionals…

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