By J. Cooper Robb Posted Apr. 24, 2012 If you’ve always thought the Bard a bore, the Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre’s extravagantly theatrical Titus Adronicus should change your mind about theater’s most revered dramatist. Director Aaron Cromie turns the Bard’s bold work into a spectacularly gleeful bloodbath that is both intense
by Lewis Whittington Contributor Sunday Apr 22, 2012 Director Aaron Cromie’s over-the-top production is in repertory at PST with the gentler tale of “Twelve Night.” But if you are in a bloody mood, Titus has garroting, torture, dismemberment, and, of course, the odd head in a jar. Hunger gamers, eat
POSTED: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2012, 11:44 PM By Toby Zinman For the Inquirer I had been dutifully watching the trailer for Philly Shakes’ new production of Titus Andronicus, listening to Aaron Cromie, who is directing it, burble on, talking-head style, about going to graduate school, blah blah blah. And then
PHILADELPHIA By Tim Dunleavy Twelfth Night, Doubt and Carousel John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt is about a subject that’s in the news this week in Philadelphia: allegations of child abuse by priests. It’s a story you may think you’ve heard before, but what makes Shanley’s play compelling is that not everything
Written by Jennifer Kramer April 01, 2012 Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre March 23 – May 20, 2012 The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theater’s production of Twelfth Night boasts an impressive and intriguing set of inspirations, including the culture of the Jazz age, the paintings of Magritte, and
Ah, the romantic comedy. The genre that provided the bread and butter for the likes of Julia Roberts, Meg Ryan, and Molly Ringwald (I’m dating myself on that last one) and the genre that was your best friend on dateless Saturday nights when you had no one to smile at
By Jim Rutter, FOR THE INQUIRER POSTED: March 30, 2012 Shakespeare’s plays contain lyrics or references to more than 100 songs. Today, the Bard no doubt would have written Twelfth Night as a musical. That’s the sense given by Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre’s enchanting production. From its first line – “If
Trimmed script makes the play, paired with “Hamlet,” the happy flip side. By Wendy Rosenfield, For The Inquirer POSTED: April 18, 2011 Play’s the thing in Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre’s toy-strewn, youthful production of As You Like It, currently running in repertory with Hamlet. In the latter, Mary Tuomanen dons the
By Howard Shapiro, Inquirer Staff Writer POSTED: March 26, 2011 In one of Hamlet’s famous speeches, our Prince of Denmark summons actors and famously tells them to speak “trippingly on the tongue” – then offers a pointer or two. In their “torrent, tempest and . . . whirlwind” of passion,
By Aldonita Lane Correspondent Jason Greenfield as Laertes matches swords with Mary Tuomanen as Hamlet in a rehearsal for the Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre production of “Hamlet.” “Hamlet” lives on this spring at the Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre. Starting on March 18 and running through May 4, audiences can enjoy actress Mary
