In 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 02:42PMHere is the second of two interviews with Aaron Cromie, one of Philadelphia’s most beloved directors, mask makers, writers, and interdisciplinary theater artists. Henrik: Carlo Goldoni (17…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:08AMThis is the first of two interviews with Aaron Cromie, one of Philadelphia’s most beloved directors, mask makers, writers, and interdisciplinary theater artists. Henrik: Carlo Goldoni (1…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:19PM“Without these people, I would just be another black boy passing on the street” “The Ballad of Trayvon Martin by Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj and Thomas J. Soto is a poetic docudrama inspir…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:03PM“I’m trying to find everyone. Everyone of my generation.” “We are all screaming across time . . . we feel comfortable here.” Summary: In 1936, Dr. Max Cohnreich escapes Berlin, Ger…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:20PMHenrik Eger interviews playwright Tim Price, whose drama The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning is receiving its U.S. premiere at Inis Nua Theatre Company through May 15.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:07AMMachinal by Sophie Treadwell, considered one of the most important Expressionist plays in the United States, premiered on Broadway in 1928. Inspired by the life of Ruth Snyder, who was convi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:59PMMachinal by Sophie Treadwell, considered one of the most important Expressionist plays in the United States, premiered on Broadway in 1928. Inspired by the life of Ruth Snyder, who was convi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:04PMRacial ignorance and fear have retreated since To Kill A Mockingbird first appeared; its often maligned author deserves some of the credit.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:44PM“Beowulf” is an Old English epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative lines, one of the oldest literary documents in Anglo-Saxon literature. Beowulf has a long history of having …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:08PMHenrik: Congratulations to the whole Villanova community for having been awarded “a $1 million commitment from the Connelly Foundation to support a new Center for Irish Studies,” which, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:46AMVillanova University, with its long theater tradition, has fostered not only the classics, but Irish theater for many years. To honor the 100-year anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising in Du…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:06PMIn Part Two of his interview with Playwright Walt Vail, Henrik Eger asks Walt to take him on his journey of writing Young Frederick Douglass. Henrik: How long did it take you to write Young…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30PMYoung Frederick Douglass (YFD), a world premiere play by Walt Vail, one of Philadelphia’s oldest and most prolific writers, is about the slave who became one of America’s most famous abo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:49PMDefending the Caveman, an informal study of psychology, sociology, and pre-history, is the longest running one-man-show in Broadway history. Written and originally performed by Rob Becker in…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:29PMJen Creed, once a mathematician and former recruiter in the investment management industry, is now the Executive Director of The Voice Foundation and, above all, a popular Philadelphia singe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:25AM"Hamlet?" I asked, aware that African women would never have the chance to play the most daunting of roles in theatre ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:16PM