25 stories by "C.m. Crockford"
The Walnut's production of Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance boasts excellent performances, but the play can't escape its own era. C.M. Crockford reviews.
Alex Burns stages his new adaptation of both parts of Henry IV at Quintessence with his signature epic style, but it's not suited to the best elements of this story. C.M. Crockford reviews.
Bill Van Horn adapts two classic Sherlock Holmes stories with a warmth and passion worthy of Arthur Conan Doyle's original vision, along with plenty of laughs. C.M. Crockford reviews.
The Walnut opens the 2025-25 season with a fun production of Million Dollar Quartet, a glossy look back at one famous night with Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis…
A new book of poetry from Philly's Frayed Edge Press imagines characters like William Carlos Williams, Robert Oppenheimer, Rachel Carson, and Gertrude Stein in meditations on art, destructio…
Mt. Airy's Quintessence welcomes spring with repertory productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Antony & Cleopatra, an ambitious and ultimately successful undertaking by director Ale…
Philly playwright Michael Hollinger's Holy Grail of
Memphis, premiering at the Arden, follows the white owner of a historic
Memphis music studio where the lost recordings of a Black blues le…
Larissa FastHorse's satire The Thanksgiving Play, one of the most-produced plays in the country, gets its Philly premiere with Curio in a mostly hilarious production. C.M. Crockford reviews.
Fever Dream Repertory, a new local company, lands at Plays & Players for the Philly premiere of Mercury, a pitch-black horror comedy that evokes Hitchcock's comedy and a queer and bloody…
Theatre in the X presents One Monkey Don't Stop No Show, by Philly native playwright Don Evans, for its annual free production in West Philly's Malcolm X Park. C.M. Crockford reviews.
Annual summer favorite Shakespeare in Clark Park brings the Forest of Arden to West Philly in an energetic new adaptation of As You Like It directed by Ontaria Kim Wilson, running through Ju…
This rattling and thrilling new production of Maxim Gorky's Children of the Sun, set in 1862 and written in a St. Petersburg prison in 1905, has devastating resonance for Americans in 2024. …
A well-acted, well-crafted new production of the epic Lehman Trilogy now getting its regional premiere at the Arden can't overcome this play's moral bankruptcy. C.M. Crockford reviews.
The world premiere of Jahna Ferron-Smith's Step Mom, Step Mom, Step Mom, now onstage at InterAct, follows a Black woman and a white man navigating the sexual and racial dynamics of their mar…
In Quintessence Theatre Group's December production of The Fantasticks, complex poetries meet deceptively simple story and design, honoring both youthful sparks and older gratitude. C.M. Cro…
Macbeth in Stride, a new adaptation of the Shakespeare classic now onstage at Philadelphia Theatre Company, rocks but doesn't dig its daggers deep enough. C.M. Crockford reviews.
A powerful new retelling of The Odyssey, based on Penn professor Emily Wilson's translation, stops in Philly on its national tour, with New Jersey dates coming in November. C.M. Crockford re…
The SoLow Festival is an accessible local arts festival that doesn't put financial pressure on the artists. This year, it's exploring the concept of rest. C.M. Crockford previews.
The national Broadway tour of Beetlejuice the musical, stopping at the Academy of Music through June 11, 2023, sands the dark edges off the original in favor of feel-good clichés. C.M. Croc…
1812's The Play That Goes Wrong, onstage at Plays & Players, brings the hilarity when things go egregiously, deliriously bad. C.M. Crockford reviews.
Director and star Tony Braithwaite shines in Act II Playhouse's Mistakes Were Made, a surprisingly emotional farce about the chaotic, horrible, hilarious reality of being a Broadway producer…
Inis Nua brings a popular Scottish playwright to the Philly stage with Meet Me At Dawn, but the performance is more moving than satisfying. C.M. Crockford reviews.
Opera Philadelphia brings its dark existential opera film to theaters this weekend. C.M. Crockford previews.
Hedgerow's production of Martin McDonagh's disturbing and thought-provoking drama The Pillowman is a worthy Philly-area destination this October. C.M. Crockford reviews.
Philadelphia writer Shannon Frost Greenstein's new poetry collection, These Are a Few of My Least Favorite Things, chronicles a 21st-century life in which terror is part of daily existence. …
