C.M. Crockford

1 month ago | broadstreetreview.com | C.M. Crockford

Hubris and destruction Furey shades these figures as prophets or yogis, in their own inexplicable fashion; near-religious figures in a Modernist 20th-century age seemingly based on reason and rationality, even if their public lives seem cut from a materialist cloth. Bugs, cancers, and sickness flit across their lives as if to signify spiritual power, the strange connection between illness and clarity.

Mar 24, 2025 | broadstreetreview.com | C.M. Crockford

Mt. Airy’s Quintessence Theatre Group welcomes spring back to Philadelphia with its “Reckless Romance Repertory” featuring twin productions of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Antony & Cleopatra, both running through April 27, 2025 with the same cast and creative team. Two of the Bard’s most romantic and sensuous plays are an ambitious undertaking for director Alex Burns. Neither are perfect, but both productions feature passion, music, spectacle, and captivating theater.

Jan 27, 2025 | broadstreetreview.com | C.M. Crockford

Michael Hollinger’s new one-act, now getting its world premiere at the Arden (extended through March 2, 2025), comes in behind a recent spate of local productions untangling the knotty, ugly history of cultural appropriation and racism in America, like InterAct’s Stepmom, Stepmom, Stepmom and Curio’s Thanksgiving Play. It’s also the one that feels the most like a well-meaning white man (like me) wrote it—because he did.

Dec 18, 2024 | brightwalldarkroom.com | C.M. Crockford

“Nobody trusts each other now…and we’re all very tired.”– The ThingLaura Ingalls Wilder’s autobiographical novel The Long Winter vividly recounts the eponymous winter season of 1880/1881, one of the most severe in recorded American meteorological history.

Oct 28, 2024 | broadstreetreview.com | C.M. Crockford

FastHorse’s satire, which originally premiered in 2018, hits some easy targets at first, but escalates in hilarity and insight as the characters’ attempt to workshop their school play falls apart. Director Tim Martin’s cheerfully politically incorrect video interludes, and strong performances from Felicia Leicht and Nathan Joseph, help make this production impossible to miss for locals also wrestling with the meaning of the upcoming holiday.