Featured on PlayShakespeare.com Kill Will in Philly By Jennifer Kramer September 29, 2015 Every September, the Philadelphia FringeArts Festival takes over the city, producing bold new works of contemporary visual and performing arts and uniting artists directly with audiences. Despite having aged slightly out of the “contemporary” category, noted playwright
Featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer / Philly.com ‘Kill Will’ a great Shakespearean gore fest By Toby Zinman Speakest thou to me, pal? En garde! Fights—with swords (broad and not), daggers, rapiers, pikes and cutlasses, plus various arm-twistings and foot-stompings—are front and center in this gleeful kill-fest, featuring the most violent,
Featured on Phindie.com By Debra Miller With an exciting mix of swords and daggers, poisoned drinks and poetic language, “bloody bits” and zany vignettes, seven actors explicate the mortal coil in playwright Derek Davidson’s pastiche of the most famous battle scenes, both tragic and comic (where “nobody dies!”), from Shakespeare’s
Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre’s 2014-2015 season The Bard, Philly-style Tom Purdom July 30, 2015 in Theater When I stopped in my local convenience store one evening, I saw a woman holding a helium balloon. She looked too old for that ind of a birthday party, and I didn’t see any children.
Philadelphia Inquirer By Jim Rutter Whenever I see a contemporary production of Shakespeare, I’m always afraid of the cuts to the original. What will the company trim to render three-to-five act classics into a 21/2 hour staging for modern sensibilities? Which speech, scene, or character will not find its
Lecture, Talkback, Slam! Upcoming events at The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre April 16, 2015 – Debra Miller In conjunction with its magical, colorful, critically acclaimed production of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, the Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre is offering audiences a mid-spring series of supplemental events on three Sundays in April and May:
Photo Credit: Kendall Whitehouse Ninni Saajola, April 10, 2015- A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre): What fools these mortals be! Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre’s production of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM isn’t afraid to embrace the wonderfully silly and naughty aspects of Shakespeare, and the approach works like a charm. The
Photo Credit: Kendall Whitehouse A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre) This delightful production’s only flaw not enough of everything! Through May 17. J.R. http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/arts/20150412_New_and_Noteworthy__Theater.html
Photo Credit: Kendall Whitehouse Chris Evangelista, April 7, 2015 “The course of true love never did run smooth” but The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre’s staging of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream flows fluidly in a charming production. Artistic Director Carmen Khan has tinged Shakespeare’s comedy with a distinct Bollywood
Photo credit: Kendall Whitehouse Howard Shapiro, April 9, 2015 Review: Romping in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre’s current rendition of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is a good romp, just as it should be. It’s a typical production from the stage company — without the showy trimmings that a
