Cary M. Mazer: Theatre Reviews

1995-96 season (partial).
1996-97 season
1997-98 season
1998-99 season

1995-96 season (partial):

October 26, 1995: review of Betrayal, Cheltenham Center for the Arts.
October 26, 1995: picks of the 1994-95 season (in response to the Barrymore awards).
November 9, 1995: Critic's Pick for ACTER Romeo and Juliet.
November 23, 1995: review of Dividing Lines, The Independent Eye.
November 30, 1995: review of Measure for Measure, Villanova Theatre.
December 8, 1995: review of Treasure Island, Cheltenham Center for the Arts.
December 21, 1995: review of Rendezvous with Reality, Wilma Theatre.
January 18, 1996: review of I Am A Man, Philadelphia Theatre Company.
January 8, 1996: review of The Three Sisters, Philadelphia Festival Theatre for New Plays.
February 1, 1996: review of Lonely Planet, InterAct Theatre Company.
February 8, 1996: review of Cheap Sentiment, Philadelphia Festival Theatre for New Plays.
February 8, 1996: review of The Playboy of the Western World, Lantern Theatre.
February 22, 1996: review of Tartuffe , People's Light & Theatre.
March 7, 1996: review of From the Ashes, Mum Puppettheatre.
March 14, 1996: review of Broken Glass, Philadelphia Theatre Company.
March 14, 1996: review of Mine Alone, Independent Eye.
March 21, 1996: review of Incorruptible, Arden Theatre Company.
March 21, 1996: review of The Misanthrope, McCarter Theatre.
March 28, 1996: review of LifeSighs, American Music theatre Festival.
March 28, 1996: review of The Duchess Malfi, Big Mess Theatre.
April 11, 1996: review of Bart & Fay, Walnut Street Studio.
April 25, 1996: review of Kindertransport, Cheltenham Center for the Arts.
May 2, 1996: review of Cosmologies, University of the Arts.
May 9, 1996: review of Vilna's Got a Golem, Philadelphia Festival Theatre for New Play.
May 9, 1996: review of When Faeries Thirst, Women's Ensemble Theatre.
May 9, 1996: review of Henry V, Arden Theatre.
May 16, 1996: review of Escape from Happiness, Wilma Theatre.
May 16, 1996: review of Punch & Judy Get Divorced, American Music Theatre Festival.
May 23, 1996: review of A Doll House, McCarter Theatre.
May 30, 1996: review of Don Juan, Cheltenham Center for the Arts.
June 13, 1996: review of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, American Music Theatre Festival.
June 29, 1996: review of Much Ado About Nothing, Red Heel Theatre.
July 18, 1996: review of Othello, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival.
August 1, 1996: article/review of Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

1996-97 season:

September 12, 1996: fall preview, 1996.
September 12, 1996: review of Nothing, Big House (plays & spectacles).
September 19,1996: review of Blood Knot, Pianosa Group.
September 19,1996: review of The Tempest, Lucidity Suitcase Theatre.
October 3, 1996: review of The Illusion, Cheltenham Center for the Arts.
October 3, 1996: review of Voir Dire, People's Light & Theatre Company.
October 3, 1996: review of The Pool Room, Freedom Repertory Theatre.
October 3, 1996: critic's pick of When the War is Over, Mum Puppettheatre.
October 17, 1996: review of The Gate of Heaven, Philadelphia Festival Theatre for New Plays.
October 24, 1996: review of Black Russian, InterAct Theatre Company.
October 31, 1996: Best of the 1995-96 season picks.
November 15, 1996: review of Long Day's Journey Into Night, Lantern Theatre Company.
November 15, 1996: review of The Glass Menagerie, Cheltenham Center for the Arts.
November 15, 1996: review of Bunny Bunny, Philadelphia Theatre Company.
November 27, 1996: review of Willi, Arden Theatre Company.
December 5, 1996: critic's pick, Having Our Say, Annenberg Center.
January 9, 1997: architectural review of the new Wilma Theatre.
January 23, 1997: interview with Kenneth Branagh.
January 23, 1997: review of Kenneth Branagh's film version of Hamlet.
January 23, 1997: review of Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Walnut Street Theatre.
January 23, 1997: review of Valley Song, People's Light & Theatre Company.
January 30, 1997: review of The Countess Cathleen, Arden Theatre Company.
January 30, 1997: review of Three in the Back, Two in the Head, InterAct Theatre Company.
February 20,1997: review of All's Well that Ends Well, Lantern Theater Company.
February 27, 1997: review of Another Midsummer Night, American Music Theatre Festival.
February 27, 1997: review of Three Plays by Dennis Moritz, Theatre Double.
March 6, 1997: review of Autumn Canticle, Walnut Street Theatre Studio.
March 6, 1997: review of Fantoccini, Mum Puppettheatre.
March 13, 1997: review of The Rivals. Walnut Street Theatre.
March 27, 1997: review of Angels in America: Perestroika, Villanova Theatre.
March 27, 1997: review of The Woman in Black, Cheltenham Center for the Arts.
April 3, 1997: review of Hammers, The Independent Eye.
April 3, 1997: review of Romeo and Juliet, Bristol Riverside Theatre.
April 10, 1997: critic's pick of The Nightclub, Stuffed Puppet Theatre.
April 24, 1997: review of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Lantern Theater.
May 1, 1997: review of The Ruling Class, The Wilma Theater.
May 1, 1997: review of Black Water, American Music Theater Festival.
May 15, 1997: review of Philadelphia Young Playwrights' Festival
May 15, 1997: review of The Game of Love and Chance, McCarter Theatre.
May 15, 1997: review of Mistero Buffo, Yellowdog Theatre Ensemble.
May 22, 1997: review of Kemble vs. Butler, Walnut Street Studio.
May 29, 1997: review of The Secret Window, Philadelphia Festival Theatre for New Plays.
June 5, 1997: review of Company, Arden Theatre Company.
June 5, 1997: review of Lulu Noire, American Music Theatre Festival.
June 12, 1997: review of Have It Your Way!, People's Light & Theatre Company.
June 19, 1997: review of Cooley High, Freedom Repertory Theatre.
June 26, 1997: review of Julius Caesar, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival.
July 24, 1997: review of Arms and the Man, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival.

1997-98 season:

August 28, 1997: review of Cafeteria, Pig Iron Theatre.
September 11, 1997: first-person essay on finally having seen the entire Shakespeare canon.
September 11, 1997: 1997 Fall Preview.
September 25, 1997: review of Indiscretions, Wilma Theatre.
September 25, 1997: review of June Moon, McCarter Theatre.
September 25, 1997: review of Road Movie, Starving Artists Theatre Company (pick of the first annual Philadelphia Fringe Festival).
October 2, 1997: review of Seascape, InterAct Theatre Company.
October 9, 1997: review of Molly's Delicious, Arden Theatre Company.
October 30, 1997: review of The Skriker, Slipstitch Productions.
October 30, 1997: best of the 1996-97 Season Picks.
November 13, 1997: review of Michigan Impossible, Venture Theatre.
November 13, 1997: review of Macbeth, Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival.
November 20, 1997: review of Poet in New York, Pig Iron Theatre Company.
December 4, 1997: review of Tiny Island, Arden Theatre Company and People's Light & Theatre Company.
December 18, 1997: review of Beauty and the Beast, People's Light & Theatre Company.
December 24, 1997: review of The Black Glove, Vox Theatre Company.
December 24, 1997: review of House, theatreCorpus.
January 29, 1998: review of Cymbeline, McCarter Theatre Company.
February 5, 1998: review of Hedda Gabler, Arden Theatre Company.
February 5,1998: review of Mating Cries,, the Independent Eye.
February 19, 1998: review of Dog Days: The legend of O.V. Catto, Venture Theatre.
February 19, 1998: review of Ghosts, Lantern Theatre.
March 5, 1998: review of On the Razzle, Wilma Theatre.
March 19, 1998: review of Band in Berlin, American Music Theater Festival.
March 26, 1998: review of Measure for Measure, People's Light & Theatre Company.
March 26, 1998: review of Under Yelena, InterAct Theatre.
April 2, 1998: review of The Majestic Kid, Vox Theatre Company.
April 9, 1998: review of Pygmalion, Bristol Riverside Theatre.
April 16, 1998: review of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Arden Theatre Company.
April 23, 1998: review of Life's a Dream, Site Installation Theater Ensemble.
May 7, 1998: review of Jack and Jill, People Light & Theatre.
May 14, 1998: review of Gentlemen Volunteers, Pig Iron Theatre.
May 21,1998: review of The Psychic Life of Savages, The Wilma Theatre.
June 11, 1998: review of Birdy, Philadelphia Theatre Company.
June 11, 1998: review of The Merchant of Venice, Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival.
June 18, 1998: review of Cold Storage, Vox Theatre Company.
June 25, 1998: review of A Moon for the Misbegotten, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival.
July 2, 1998: review of All's Well That Ends Well, Pennsyvlania Shakespeare Festival.

1998-99 season:

September 17, 1998: Fall Preview, 1998.
September 17, 1998: review of Hard Times, People's Light & Theatre Company.
September 24, 1998: review of Electra, McCarter Theatre.
September 24, 1998: review of The Triumph of Love, Walnut Street Theatre.
October 1, 1998: review of Offending the Audience, Fictitious Theatre Company.
October 22, 1998: review of The Killing of Michael Malloy, Bristol Riverside Theatre
October 29, 1998: review of Meshugah, McCarter Theatre Company.
October 29, 1998: Best of the 1997-98 Season Picks.
November 5, 1998: review of How I Learned to Drive, Philadelphia Theatre Company.
November 5, 1998: review of The Grapes of Wrath, Arden Theatre Company.
November 12, 1998: review of The Tempest, Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival.
November 26, 1998: review of Machinal, Villanova Theatre.
November 26, 1998: article about recent productions of Machinal in Philadelphia.
December 10, 1998: review of She Loves Me , Bristol Riverside Theatre.
December 17, 1998: review of Twelfth Night, Lantern Theater.
January 21, 1999: review of Sacco and Vanzetti: A Vaudeville, People's Light & Theatre Company.
February 4, 1999: review of Lives of the Saints, Philadelphia Theatre Company.
February 11, 199: review of Coyote on a Fence, Arden Theatre Company.
March 11, 1999: review of The Cripple of Inishmaan, Wilma Theatre.
March 18, 1999: review of Bee-Luther-Hatchee, InterAct Theatre Company.
March 25, 1999: review of The Chosen, Arden Theatre Company.
March 25, 1999: review of Three Tall Women, Walnut Street Theatre.
April 22, 1999: review of Lovers and Executioners, Lantern Theatre.
April 22, 1999: review of Deep Down, Venture Theatre.
May 6, 1999: review of Much Ado About Nothing, Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival.
May 20, 1999: review of A Huey P. Newton Story, Freedom Repertory Theatre.
May 20, 1999: review of Songs & Stories from Moby Dick, Prince Music Theatre,
May 27, 1999: review of Orpheus Descending, Wilma Theatre.
June 3, 1999: review of Seance, Mum Puppettheatre.
June 3, 1999: book review of The Birth of Shylock and the Death of Zero Mostel by Arnold Wesker.
June 10,1999: review of The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Philadelphia Theatre Company.
June 24, 1999: review of Blithe Spirit, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival.
June 24, 1999: review of A Flea in her Ear, People's Light & Theatre Company (unedited version of review).
July 1, 1999: review of Spermegga, Freedom Repertory Theatre.
July 8, 1999: review of The Tempest, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival.
September 16, 1999: a valedictory essay about why I resigned as theatre critic.