New and Noteworthy: Theater
New This Week Ain't Misbehaving (Delaware Theatre Company) A timeline of jazzman "Fats" Waller's career. Previews Wednesday-Friday, opens Saturday.
New This Week
Ain't Misbehaving (Delaware Theatre Company) A timeline of jazzman "Fats" Waller's career. Previews Wednesday-Friday, opens Saturday.
Dear Elizabeth(People's Light and Theatre) Poets Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop's chaste love story in letters. Previews Wednesday-Friday, opens Saturday.
Down Past Passyunk(InterAct Theatre) All around Nick Grillo's cheesesteak shop, Hispanics are moving in. He insists they "speak English." Previews Friday-April 8, opens April 9.
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (Prince Theater) Mark Nadler performs songs of the Weimar era. Opens Wednesday.
Mary Stuart (Philadelphia Artists Collective) Two queens, one of whom wants the other dead. Previews Wednesday, Thursday, opens Friday.
Mourning Becomes Electra (Quintessence Theatre Group) O'Neill resets The Oresteia as a trilogy about a corrupt family. Previews Wednesday-Friday, opens Saturday.
Romeo and Juliet (Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre) Shakespeare's tragic tale of love and death. Previews Friday-April 8, opens April 9.
Continuing
Reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield (W.R.), Jim Rutter (J.R.), David Patrick Stearns (D.P.S.), Toby Zinman (T.Z.), and Jim Rutter (J.R.).
Arsenic and Old Lace (Walnut Street Theatre) The nice ladies' boarders check in, but they don't check out in this farcical frolic. Through April 27. - T.Z.
Buried Child (Iron Age Theatre) A good production of Sam Shepard's dated account of a farm family's twisted reunion. Through April 13. - J.R.
Don Juan Comes Home From Iraq (Wilma Theater) Paula Vogel's latest is a powerful antiwar play, emotionally and intellectually challenging. It's terrific. Through April 20. - T.Z.
Hinckley (New City Stage) A portrait of self-delusion and megalomania. Ends Sunday. - J.R.
Laughter on the 23d Floor (Bristol Riverside) Nonstop laffs in the writers' room of a weekly variety show. Through April 13.
The Mystery of Irma Vep (Hedgerow Theatre Company) Charles Ludlam's vampire tribute doesn't benefit from an underdone production. Through April 6. - W.R.
The Phantom of the Opera (Academy of Music) This new touring production has changes that intensify the plot and deepen the romantic triangle. Through April 12. - J.R.
Pride and Prejudice (People's Light and Theatre) A spot-on cast and imaginative choreography illuminate the best rom-com of all. Ends Sunday. - D.P.S.
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Walnut's Independence Studio) Little Voice can impersonate any great songstress but all she wants is love and happiness. Through April 13.
Three Sisters (Arden Theatre) Terrence J. Nolen directs a new translation, with a well-acted staging that insinuates itself through the side door. Through April 20. - D.P.S.
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Philadelphia Theatre Co.) Christopher Durang's comedy is a mixed bag, but the PTC production hits bull's-eyes all around. Through April 20.- W.R.
Why Do Fools Fall in Love? (Media Theatre) A bachelorette party occasions a '60s songfest. Ends Sunday.