by Donald Toal It’s funny to think about how stories get retold sometimes. It’s admittedly, for this millennial, less funny to think of Shrek as being a story that is now over 25(?!?) years old, longer if you count the original William Steig children’s book that inspired it (which first hit shelves in 1990). But time makes fools of us all, I suppose. Regardless of the forward passage of the years, the big green ogre has a heart to his story of satirized fairy tales and th

by Ash Kotter Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead is not a comfortable evening of theater, but in the hands of Philadelphia’s Old Academy Players, it is most certainly a powerful one. For those who appreciate a heads up, please consider this a content warning: this story engages directly with several layers of mature content. Not simply the use of explicit language, but add themes of violence, on top of sexual identity topics, lewd descriptions of sex acts, use

by: Josh Buffington Before seeing this show, I was familiar with majority of the music and was hoping to hear beautiful harmonies and see hilarious acting. As I walked into the theatre, I was immediately greeted with smiling faces and numerous kind people at the box office, as well as the ushers. A fun touch that was added was the opportunity to have audience members onstage. The ushers asked if audience members were interested and had them fill out a form with your name an