Monday, September 18, 2023
A new Passover Seder as designed by the Dadaist poet Tristan Tzara. Instead of telling the Passover story, this ritual commemorates the time that all…
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The role of Rafiki is one that Gugwana Dlamini is quite familiar with.
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Friend of Phindie Josh McIlvain and his band Casual Fantastic released a new video for their song “Happy (You Make Me)” from recently released album…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 01:15PMThursday, March 30, 2023
With credits spanning the globe, director Lisa Steven’s latest project brings her to Philadelphia. Lisa was brought in by Walnut Street Theatre’s president and producing…
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BalletX’s 2023 Winter Series sees the company reaching back into their past and looking to the future, with new or reconsidered works by three contemporary…
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The intimate Perelman Theater in the Kimmel Cultural Campus provides an ideal setting for Philadelphia Ballet’s impressive new production, Forward Motion, three world premieres by…
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Is Trust given freely, or earned over time?
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 03:21PMMonday, September 19, 2022
How many bodies make a body of law? Corpus is a play at the intersection of legal interpretation and human experience.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 03:48PMMonday, June 6, 2022
Pulitzer winners aren’t always great theatrical works, but they are often very revealing about the times in which they won
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 04:08PMThursday, May 12, 2022
2022 Pulitzer Prize winner James Ijames directs the 2019 Pulitzer winner Fairview at the Wilma.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 10:30AMFriday, March 11, 2022
In a post-quarantine world, we often don't know what to expect, and the same is true of Sarah Knittel and Bradley Kristian Wrenn’s upcoming experience/performance titled MAKE A F@CKIN’ S…
SOURCE: phindie.com at 08:00AMThursday, March 3, 2022
Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Marsha Norman’s two-woman play ’night, Mother is a tragedy on an intimate, rather than epic, scale. Taking place over a single night, it look…
SOURCE: phindie.com at 11:37AMWednesday, February 23, 2022
Humble Materials, a new theater company in residence at Philly PACK, will produce an original adaptation of MEDEA, opening February 25. “Medea is one of…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 07:52PMSaturday, February 5, 2022
It’s a new world with Philadelphia Ballet. Vaccine checks and face masks, a new name (is there any state with less state pride than Pennsylvania?),…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 12:33PMFriday, October 8, 2021
Marcie Bramucci took on the role of executive director at Hedgerow Theater at an interesting time. For three generations, members of the Reed/Kelsey family had…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 12:14PMThursday, September 23, 2021
Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was the most influential American Catholic author of the twentieth century. His autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, sold over one million copies…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 12:43PMMonday, September 13, 2021
Like many people, I’m only now returning to in-person shows after 18 months finding other means of distraction. In a typical example, I went down…
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Why do we dance? Lily Kind proposes an answer
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Shakespeare in Clark Park uses Pericles as the launching point for two community-created interpretations in different Philadelphia parks.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 04:41PMSaturday, April 10, 2021
In 2020, filmmaker and theater creator Irina Varina had a plan to make a film called I Know What You Did in the Summer of…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 10:45PMTuesday, March 30, 2021
Religious cults have marked every society throughout history, and Philadelphia has seen its share of peculiar groups. The city’s streets have seen such charismatic figures…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 11:01AMFriday, March 19, 2021
On March 23, 2020, Philadelphia officially went into a lockdown that’s still to end. It’s kinda like we’ve all been stuck in an artificial world,…
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As warm weather and herd immunity approach, a new dance-theater work heralds a safe return to live performance.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 09:23PMTuesday, January 19, 2021
A virtual memorial service held on Sunday, January 17, 2021, for Dr. Henrik Eger, who died January 3, 2021, at the age of 79.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 03:33PMMonday, January 11, 2021
The performing arts lost a vocal supporter and the world lost a vibrant presence last weekend. Editor-at-Large Henrik Eger died on Sunday, January 3, 2021, after being admitted to hospital f…
SOURCE: phindie.com at 05:57PMThursday, December 31, 2020
What a fucking year that was.
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Hallmark Christmas movies are a genre of cinema that has received decidedly little critical attention... until now
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 05:25PMWednesday, December 2, 2020
THE WOLVES has been reconfigured as a virtual performance, with the same talented all-female-identifying cast and the same devastating drama.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 06:59PMMonday, November 30, 2020
In Will Arbery’s HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING, four Catholic conservative friends gather at a late-night backyard party in Wyoming, shortly before the 2017 eclipse.…
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 01:28PMHanna Gaffney's character is the center of much of the action in Sarah DeLappe's wonderfully naturalistic new play
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 12:01PMThursday, September 10, 2020
The Fringe Festival kinda crept up on us this year, but here are a few shows we're looking out for this festival.
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