Saturday, October 21, 2017
Known and beloved for his impeccably smooth baritone voice, suave stylings, and debonair elegance, Nat King Cole was a musical icon and TV trailblazer, making his indelible mark on our cultu…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:26PMThursday, October 19, 2017
Ethics, morality, self-interest, and accountability are the big issues addressed in Theatre Exile’s smashing production of Aaron Loeb’s Ideation, in a sardonic send-up of over-the-top am…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:57PMWednesday, October 18, 2017
On March 25, 1911, fire raged through the 8th to 10th floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory by Washington Square Park. In less than 20 minutes, it claimed the lives of 146 people, mostly…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00PMMusical-comedy improv troupe Robot Teammate has landed in New York with an energetic hour of silly sci-fi fun in Turbulence!, now performing at SoHo Playhouse for the final week of this year…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:26AMSaturday, October 14, 2017
Just back from a production of his musical GRINDR: The Opera in Florida, Erik Ransom organized a private developmental reading of his latest work Civil Blood (The Resurrection of Romeo) for …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:57PMWednesday, October 11, 2017
In November 1919, the 36-year-old Modernist writer Franz Kafka wrote a searing 45-page letter to his domineering father Hermann, dissecting his tyrannical attitude and lifelong emotional abu…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:12PMThursday, October 5, 2017
Enter the 23rd Street Armory this Columbus Day weekend and be transported to a Munich-style beer hall for the 2nd annual celebration of Oktoberfest, presented by Philadelphia’s own Brauhau…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:27PMWednesday, October 4, 2017
Drag queens save the day and light up the stage in Kinky Boots, making its return to Philadelphia for a limited run this week at the Academy of Music. Presented in the Broadway Philadelphia …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:17PMFriday, September 29, 2017
Despite the hiatus of FringeNYC in 2017, SoHo Playhouse is presenting a full line-up for its 12th annual Fringe Encore Series in September and October, giving New York audiences a chance to …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:51PMThursday, September 28, 2017
Ranked among the greatest novels of the 20th century, A Clockwork Orange – British author Anthony Burgess’s alarming vision of a dystopian future fueled by ultra-violence, hyper-sexualit…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:13PMTuesday, September 26, 2017
It was a night filled with excitement, laughs, and unbridled passion for indie theater as the New York Innovative Theatre Foundation celebrated the outstanding achievements of Off-Off-Broadw…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:13AMSunday, September 24, 2017
Sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll have long been the rallying cry of post-modern youth, and Gunnar Montana takes that hedonistic call to its most emphatic, explicit, and artistic extremes in Kin…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:25PMSaturday, September 23, 2017
For its fourth annual Fringe offering, Revolution Shakespeare returns to South Philadelphia’s Hawthorne Park with another free outdoor selection from the Bard’s canon. This year’s prod…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:54AMFriday, September 22, 2017
Created by Michael McHugh, directed by Peter Tupitza, and starring the fabulous Eric Singel, JC Productions’ revival of Joan Crawford in Her Own Words reunites the show’s original team f…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:17PMThursday, September 21, 2017
Corinna Burns is not just skilled at acting, she’s also a superb writer and an enthralling storyteller, and she’s proving it once again in this year’s Fringe Festival with Bind. Her la…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:34PMWednesday, September 20, 2017
For its inaugural offering in the Fringe, Juniper Productions, founded earlier this year, partners with Philadelphia Distilling for a themed site-specific presentation of four commissioned s…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:43PMTuesday, September 19, 2017
In a delectable mash-up of the 2017 Fringe with an extended Restaurant Week, Franky Bradley’s gives festival-goers the option of enjoying dinner while attending the latest all-new offering…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:39PMMonday, September 18, 2017
Actor and activist Bob Weick is back in the Fringe with his signature touring show Marx in Soho by Howard Zinn, which he first performed in the festival in 2004. Presented by Iron Age Theatr…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:14PMHypnotic, transportive, and exquisitely beautiful, Mistress of the Maze marks the unforgettable debut of WeftWorks with its stunning world-premiere performance in the 2017 Fringe. Created, c…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:11AMSaturday, September 16, 2017
As you enter through the gates and into the courtyard of historic Laurel Hill Cemetery, you are offered your choice of a complimentary cocktail with an appropriately lethal name, while liste…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:34PMWhat do you get when you mix over-the-top parody with uncensored vulgarity with pure poetry? The Groom’s a Fag; The Bride’s a Cunt; The Best Man’s a Whore; and the Maiden of Honor (Jus…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:08AMFriday, September 15, 2017
It’s a zany self-referencing case of art imitating life in These Terrible Things, as the University of the Arts and The Berserker Residents team up for an absolutely hilarious parody of tr…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:56PMThursday, September 14, 2017
Both laugh-out-loud funny and intensely affecting, The Greenfield Collective makes its powerful mark on the Fringe with Tilda Swinton Adopt Me Please, an original work devised by Nicholas Sc…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:44PMWednesday, September 13, 2017
“What gods?” asks the devastated Clytemnestra after the sacrifice of her first-born daughter Iphigenia, in The Philadelphia Artists’ Collective’s Fringe adaptation of Iphigenia at Au…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:28PMDid you ever want to sail away from it all and begin anew with a circle of like-minded friends? That’s what the figures in Almanac’s Leaps of Faith and Other Mistakes do, in a decision t…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:21AMTuesday, September 12, 2017
Evincing the seminal inspiration of Fringe mainstays Pig Iron Theatre Company and New Paradise Laboratories, Strange Tenants is the latest original work developed in Sam Tower + Ensemble’s…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:09PMMonday, September 11, 2017
Philadelphia sketch-comedy icon, and longest-running annual act in the history of the Fringe, The WaitStaff marks its seventeenth year of participation with an all-new Labor of Love. Directe…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:37PMA transportive adventure awaits Fringe-goers in JUNK’s . . . strand . . ., as Brian Sanders and his stunning troupe contemplate the enigma of the time-space continuum in a dreamlike medita…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:01AMSunday, September 10, 2017
Performed in the candlelit courtyard of the historic Betsy Ross House and opening in the 2017 Fringe on September 9 – the same date, in 1776, that the Second Continental Congress decl…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:41AMSaturday, September 9, 2017
A spot-on parody of the retro-style of film noir in a hilarious send-up of our ever-growing post-modern obsession with social media and technology, Fishtown – A Hipster Noir reaffirms Trib…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:03PMA ten-year account of the failed pursuit of his Hollywood dreams, Gene Duffy’s As the Matzo Ball Turns – The Musical is an ambitious stage adaptation of the eponymous 2012 autobiographic…
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