“One Christmas was so much like another,” narrates Geneviève Perrier in Lantern Theater Company’s adaptation of Dylan Thomas’ lush prose poem “A Child’s Christmas in Wales.” “I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when…

Claire Horvath Admit it: Shakespeare’s comedies are stupid. At least, that’s what Harry Slack’s silly and sublime new play posits, gleefully pointing out the Bard’s many logic lapses in Twelfth Night. Any time one of Shakespeare’s women disguises herself as…

Mark Garvin Joining worthy revivals like Pig Iron’s Twelfth Night and People’s Light & Theatre Company’s Cinderella: A Panto is the Arden Theatre Company’s Sideways Stories from Wayside School, in an all-new production directed by the Arden’s children’s-theater whiz Whit…

Ginger Dayle Peter Morgan’s Frost/Nixon has proven itself on Broadway and film, but I was wary. How does an actor play someone as iconic and oft-parodied as Richard Nixon without slipping into caricature? Dan Olmstead shows us how in New…

David Sedaris’ entertaining 1992 holiday memoir, detailing his misadventures working as a Macy’s Christmas elf, has become a national holiday staple in Joe Mantello’s stage adaptation. Flashpoint Theatre Company presents the one-man show for the 10th consecutive year, starring Barrymore…

Quince Productions takes a break from preparing their spring play to celebrate the Christmas season with a cabaret stacked with Quince veterans. Expect a broad and bawdy definition of “holiday-related” in the songs from Deborah Billups, Carly Bodnar, John Hodges,…

Two-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone brings her acclaimed intimate concert to Morgan’s Cabaret, the second of four solo shows by beloved singers at Prince Music Theater this season. LuPone draws on her considerable musical-theater career and pop sources, sharing…

Matthew Rhein Doug Wright’s I Am My Own Wife receives the right production at Theatre Horizon. It’s also very good, but “right” matters. Philadelphia theatergoers may know the play from the Wilma Theater’s 2005 production, which took what proved the…

Fans of acclaimed young playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney’s award-winning trilogy can see all three plays in a rotating two-part repertory by Temple Theaters. The 2013 MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellow’s In the Red and Brown Water, directed by MFA candidate Liz…