Volta by Cirque du Soleil, Greater Philadelphia Expo Center at Oaks, Pennsylvania, through August 19, 2018.
The word volta means a turn in time, or a return. Cirque du Soleil says that the title of its latest show, Volta, refers specifically to an about-face. Either way, this theatrical invention lives up to its billing.
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The transcendent talent of Oscar Hammerstein II was displayed in a one-night-only event June 23, 2018 at Bucks County Playhouse, near the farm where Hammerstein lived. This was a semi-staged concert version of Show Boat, the 1927 musical with book and lyrics by Hammerstein and music by Jerome Kern.
Every great accomplishment of Oscar Hammerstein was an outgrowth of what he …