Theaters stir to life. Gas & Electric Arts performs Cabinet of Wonders, a bit of Grey Gardens crossed with Tom Waits in the most fabulous converted industrial space in the Eraserhood. We have to pause and appreciate how much Philadelphia small theaters mean because they want to mean. Art must be tired of talking to itself, now, finally. It is so good when art talks to us, which Cabinet does with a great and cluttered heart.
Frank X is mesmerizing for 3 minutes or 3 hours. A Philadelphia gem, now on the dias in the Arden's The History Boys. A theater immersion that also means to mean.
Soon: Theater Exile will open their season with Hunter Gatherers. Theater Exile is one of the city's most mature small theaters, assured and unerring, they always hit the mark of taut realism (think Mamet, without the weird diction). I do look forward.
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