Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Harry Dietzler, the executive and artistic director of Upper Darby Summer Stage, one of America’s oldest and most successful theater programs for young adults, founded the Summer Stage in …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:14PMSaturday, July 15, 2017
Director Rami Khader, along with a group of talented and committed artists, both male and female and of differing ages and backgrounds, founded Diyar Dance Theatre in 2008. Based in Bethlehe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:49PMSaturday, July 8, 2017
Every year, the REV Theatre Company fills Laurel Hill Cemetery — Philadelphia’s resting place of the rich, the powerful, and the famous — with an almost cult-like following of theaterg…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:33PMWednesday, July 5, 2017
Damon Bonetti, a popular Philadelphia actor and director at various theaters and Co-Founding Artistic Director of The Philadelphia Artists’ Collective (The PAC), is directing a new product…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:39PMWednesday, June 21, 2017
During a prayer service on June 17, 2015, nine members of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, were killed by a 21-year-old white s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:46PMFriday, June 9, 2017
Theatre Horizon (TH) is a professional nonprofit theatre company headquartered in Norristown, Pennsylvania, 20 miles west of Philadelphia. Since its inception, TH has presented critically-ac…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:08PMSaturday, February 18, 2017
Near the end of each year, Philadelphia’s only surreal theater, The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium (IRC) —with their deeply philosophical mission statement, “We Bring Good Nothing…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:12PMThursday, February 9, 2017
Henrik Eger: You left quite an impression portraying the Artful Dodger in Oliver! (2009) and Peter in Peter and the Starcatcher (2016) — both at the Walnut Street Theatre. Seen from the pe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:57PMTuesday, December 27, 2016
German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), in his 1949 essay, “Cultural Criticism and Society,” claimed, “To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric” (transl. by Samu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30PMThursday, December 22, 2016
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), famous and controversial Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet, also authored thought provoking fairy stories for children that appeared in various magazine…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:44AMSaturday, December 10, 2016
I have seen many Christmas shows, each one enjoyable in its own way, but I’ve never seen a production as moving, as unusual, and as artistically satisfying as this unique version of A Chil…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:10AMTuesday, November 1, 2016
The popular creative team of composer and musician Dan Martin and lyricist and artist Michael Biello, well-known for their many artistic ventures in both New York and the City of Brotherly L…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:54AMFriday, October 28, 2016
Life as THE OTHER PLACE: An interview with Jane Ridley, actor and theater professor. Background: UK and US Childhood Henrik: You were born in the UK and were briefly transplanted to the US a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:59PMWednesday, October 5, 2016
I had the honor of speaking with Michele Loor Nicolay who is playing Alice Croll, in Rapture, Blister, Burn at Allens Lane Theater. Henrik: If you could rapture, blister, and burn about …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:39PMFriday, September 30, 2016
The latest offering at the Media Theatre, the popular musical The Bridges of Madison County, based on Robert James Waller’s 1992 novel, with a book by Marsha Norman, music and lyric…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:45AMTuesday, September 27, 2016
Death is a Cabaret Ol’ Chum—A Graveyard Cabaret, or: When the dead come alive at the Laurel Hill Cemetery with REV Theatre Company Death, dying, and the supernatural have fascinated the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:24PMSunday, September 25, 2016
Revolution Shakespeare, aka RevShakes, a Philadelphia-based company, founded by Artistic Director Griffin Stanton-Ameisen in 2013, started out with a number of fascinating programs, includin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:24PMTuesday, September 20, 2016
PANGAEA, connecting people, life, and historical times through a post-apocalyptic folk opera: An interview with the musicians-actors and the director PANGAEA: “About 300 million years ago,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:02AMMonday, September 19, 2016
Henrik: What inspired you to create FringeArts, Philadelphia’s annual theater arts festival—“a city-wide celebration of innovation and creativity in contemporary performance”? Nick: …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:36PMTuesday, September 6, 2016
Mike Durkin, innovative Philadelphia director who has opened many doors, starts out this interview by giving a brutally honest self-assessment on the ongoing fluctuating weight issues in our…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:36PMApplied Mechanics (AM) is a Philadelphia-based collaborative ensemble that has been making original, immersive theater since it was founded by Director Rebecca (Becky) Wright and Designer Ma…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:00PMMonday, August 22, 2016
The violence in the US and overseas has rattled millions of people, making many of us feel vulnerable. Sarah Gafgen, well-known actor, singer, and director, took the initiative and, with the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:55PMThursday, August 18, 2016
“Dance theater with a queer sensibility, high spirits, and a spirit of adventure”: An interview with The Bang Group Co-Founder David Parker, performing at Philadelphia’s GayFest! 2016 …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:54PMFriday, August 12, 2016
Just when the US is in a political freefall, with Trump and Clinton battling it out, while Stein and Johnson are waiting in the wings, Playwright Andrew Marvel opens a Pandora’s box with G…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:49PMWednesday, August 3, 2016
The Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Festival 2016 (PWTF) opens tonight, August 3rd and runs through this Sunday, August 7, 2016. It offers the following Staged Readings, introducing Phila…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:15AMSaturday, July 23, 2016
Discovering secrets of The Summer Club: Interviews with some of the best big band swinging performers on the East coast “Come swing with us back to an era when life was cooler, music was s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:36AMSunday, July 17, 2016
Boeing Boeing, a 1960’s French farce by Marc Camoletti, translated into English by Beverley Cross, features Bernard, a self-styled Parisian Lothario who has Italian, German, and Americ…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:58PMThursday, July 14, 2016
“I live my life as a flawed character” Mary Martello started performing at the age of seven and “has continued through four kids and fifty years.” She began in Michigan (where she t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:20AMFriday, June 24, 2016
The much talked about Quintessence Theatre Group, one of the few ensemble theaters in Philadelphia, under the direction of Alexander Burns, is featuring two of its actors—E. Ashley Izard a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:37PMWednesday, June 22, 2016
In this two-part interview, we look into some corners of the secret garden in the life of the much talked about Jeff Coon at a time me when American family structures are changing and expand…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:01PMIn this two-part interview, we look into some corners of the secret garden in the life of actor Jeff Coon at a time when American family structures are changing and expanding. Jeff talks abo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:42PM 
