Monday, March 6, 2023
There’s magic and mystery as wonderfully costumed characters come alive to dance, sing, cavort, wrestle, draw swords, threaten violence, and show mercy
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Introducing Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as “a thinking play,” Tennessee Williams wrote to his audiences: “I want to go on talking to you…
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This show has history. Odets, a voice for his disinherited generation was born in Philadelphia.
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Scott Greer has the audience suffering with him, then happy for him. It seems this story could have been his personal history. He owns it that much.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 07:25PMThursday, November 10, 2022
Boisterous, joyful, defiant, and a little bawdy, the show may have a sketchy contraption of a plot, but you don’t go to a musical expecting Hamlet.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 06:58PMMonday, November 7, 2022
Faced with bureaucratic nonsense or official missteps, who hasn’t said ‘fuck the government’ or a more genteel equivalent? The multi-ethnic East African Kenya Colony gained independe…
SOURCE: phindie.com at 12:50PMFriday, October 14, 2022
Tennessee Williams had been writing since he was a teenager, and by the time he was 30 years old he was getting nowhere. His early…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 06:52PMMonday, October 3, 2022
Due to the pandemic, it had been many months since I’d visited the Sedgwick Theater in Germantown. October 1 was opening night for The Chairs…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 11:43PMMonday, September 26, 2022
It’s a tragedy that more audiences will not have a chance to enjoy the production.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 12:24PMMonday, September 19, 2022
Okay: A drag queen show for children.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 05:17PMThursday, September 15, 2022
This play-within-a-play about a play takes place on the Bluver Theatre’s tiny stage, brightly lit, although called dim by the characters. The audience, up close…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 07:41AMMonday, September 12, 2022
A little bit naughty at times, semi-Shakespearean lingo is mixed with a good deal of TomFoolery.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 10:23PMFriday, September 9, 2022
Unless you know Geoff Sobelle’s other works, you’ve never seen anything like this.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 10:30PMTuesday, September 6, 2022
There are many, many moments that become stories.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 11:16PMMonday, October 26, 2020
ames Joyce is Dead And So Is Paris was presented at Christ Church Annex in Old City in 2003. It was something else!
SOURCE: phindie.com at 11:45AMTuesday, October 6, 2020
In today's edition of my look back on theater from years past, I remember two Thaddeus Phillips works from 2015 and 2017: Alias Ellis Mackenzie and A Billion Nights on Earth.
SOURCE: phindie.com at 08:56PMMonday, October 5, 2020
Kathryn Osenlund remembers two productions of I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright.
SOURCE: phindie.com at 08:15PMThursday, October 1, 2020
Kathryn Osenlund remembers two productions from Fringe Festivals past
SOURCE: phindie.com at 09:02AMMonday, September 28, 2020
In a new series, Phindie takes a walk down memory lane to briefly revisit memorable theater performances in Philadelphia and environs.
SOURCE: phindie.com at 01:33PMThursday, April 9, 2020
In recent days of home-captivity my mind has wandered to Romeo & Juliet performances, new and old. But I'm more interested in Mercutio and Tybalt than the star-crossed lovers.
SOURCE: phindie.com at 02:09PMSaturday, March 28, 2020
Cooped up inside, with no theater in sight, I’m remembering Hamlets I’ve known.
SOURCE: phindie.com at 06:03PMThursday, February 6, 2020
Put on your thinking cap if you’re thinking of going to see DESCRIBE THE NIGHT
SOURCE: phindie.com at 11:41AMThursday, January 30, 2020
How wonderful that we have Oscar Wilde's works and can go and see his plays
SOURCE: phindie.com at 08:34PMTuesday, December 17, 2019
“In the realm of the unknown, kids and adults have pretty much the same needs: courage, resilience, protection.”
SOURCE: phindie.com at 10:59AMMonday, July 18, 2016
Mike Daisey's latest is more tragedy than comedy, yet it's so funny you want to cry
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:31AMMonday, April 11, 2016
Goodbye cruel world, he's off to join the circus. Read More
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:11AMSunday, January 17, 2016
O'Neill upstairs at Philadelphia's historic Walnut Street Theatre.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 03:38PMTuesday, September 8, 2015
Deconstructed, reconstructed with American lingo and absurdist set
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:19AMMonday, May 25, 2015
conceived and created by Pig Iron Theatre Company for Philadelphia Live Arts
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMThe seventh world premiere of a Michael Hollinger play at the Arden introduces a vintage world to their Arcadia stage
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMurprise! Not scary or gory or a musical but an elongated comedy sketch, well-directed by Michael Alltop at Philadelphia's Underground Arts
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