Warning: These seven marvelous actors in the all female cast, are not your nice Aunt Sara. Wild and untamed, they’re women without borders. Stepping out… The post POTUS (Arden): Brash a…
SOURCE: phindie.com at 07:07PMFather Comes Home From The Wars by Suzan-Lori Parks is remarkable in many ways. There’s no denying the appeal that took the audience to its… The post FATHER COMES HOME FROM THE WARS (Qu…
SOURCE: phindie.com at 10:20PMOne of Shakespeare’s greatest hits, his first comedy, The Comedy of Errors, is playing at the Lantern Theater Company until June 16. Twins, shipwreck, mistaken… The post THE COMEDY OF E…
SOURCE: phindie.com at 10:33PMDouble, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Cool it with a baboon’s blood, then the charm is firm and good. Macbeth, the… The post MACBETH (Quintessence): Onstage ma…
SOURCE: phindie.com at 04:33PMA tale about cotton, Civil War, commodities, finance, and wealth told through the story of three brothers and the company they found. The post THE LEHMAN TRILOGY (Arden): A play in three act…
SOURCE: phindie.com at 09:26AMInis Nua has done its best with a story more told than shown, an aftermath. The post Once Upon a Bridge (Inis Nua): 60-second review appeared first on phindie.
SOURCE: phindie.com at 01:38PMThe Lantern Theater’s performance of Faith Healer, by Brian Friel is presented as four monologues that represent three points of view, those of Frank Hardy… The post FAITH HEALER (Lante…
SOURCE: phindie.com at 08:52PMLorraine Hansberry wrote Raisin in the Sun in 1959, a bold play for its time. It takes a dark view of the progress of integration,… The post A RAISIN IN THE SUN (Bristol Riverside): An ol…
SOURCE: phindie.com at 08:32PMLove happens, even in a setting dedicated to concentrated evil, as an American girl becomes a fierce Nazi uber-princess. The post CAMP SIEGFRIED (Theatre Exile): An unlikely love story app…
SOURCE: phindie.com at 10:22PMQuintessence Theater’s founding artistic director Alex Burns, has written a new translation from the original French The post NO EXIT (Quintessence): A new translation of a hellishly absur…
SOURCE: phindie.com at 09:17AMThe wall of the F. Otto Haas Stage features pictures of targets and X’s for murdered presidents. Starting with John Wilkes Booth’s killing of Abraham… The post ASSASSINS (Arden): A ce…
SOURCE: phindie.com at 02:49PMBefore he became a celebrated playwright, Jean-Baptiste Poquelan was a poor thing in a touring shoestring theater company. Although he had wanted to be a… The post TARTUFFE (Lantern): Del…
SOURCE: phindie.com at 02:18PM10 Dates with Mad Mary is playing upstairs at a favored watering hole, Fergie’s Pub. The show was so popular last year that it’s back! The post 10 Dates with Mad Mary (Inis Nua): A real …
SOURCE: phindie.com at 04:49PMThere’s a lot of Twelfth Night going around in the Philadelphia area, all different. The Wilma conjures a fresh seaside setting. A dock moves forward.… The post TWELTH NIGHT (Wilma): Be…
SOURCE: phindie.com at 01:54PMShakespeare wrote Twelfth Night (1599-1600), one of his few fantasy plays, immediately before he penned his incomparable Hamlet (1600-1601). As Artistic Director Charles McMahon describes�…
SOURCE: phindie.com at 11:51AMA crippling honesty and family ties mark August Wilson’s Radio Golf, a play that flows with humor along with sharply incisive dialogue and a clever story line. The post RADIO GOLF (Arden)…
SOURCE: phindie.com at 01:48PMThere’s magic and mystery as wonderfully costumed characters come alive to dance, sing, cavort, wrestle, draw swords, threaten violence, and show mercy The post THE TEMPEST (Quintessence):…
SOURCE: phindie.com at 09:49PMIntroducing Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as “a thinking play,” Tennessee Williams wrote to his audiences: “I want to go on talking to you… The post CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (Walnut Street The…
SOURCE: phindie.com at 11:12PMThis show has history. Odets, a voice for his disinherited generation was born in Philadelphia. The post Waiting For Lefty (Quintessence): On the side of angels but not art appeared first on…
SOURCE: phindie.com at 12:00PMScott 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. The post Every Brilliant Thing (Arden The…
SOURCE: phindie.com at 07:25PMBoisterous, 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. The post The Tattooed Lady (Philadelphia…
SOURCE: phindie.com at 06:58PMFaced 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 12:50PMTennessee Williams had been writing since he was a teenager, and by the time he was 30 years old he was getting nowhere. His early… The post THE GLASS MENAGERIE (Arden): Revisiting the fa…
SOURCE: phindie.com at 06:52PMDue 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… The post THE CHAIRS (Quintessence): 60-sec…
SOURCE: phindie.com at 11:43PMIt’s a tragedy that more audiences will not have a chance to enjoy the production. The post ROMEO AND JULIET (OJ Productions): 2022 Fringe review appeared first on phindie.
SOURCE: phindie.com at 12:24PMOkay: A drag queen show for children. The post LATE NIGHT SNACKS FAMILY SHOW (Bearded Ladies): 2022 Fringe review appeared first on phindie.
SOURCE: phindie.com at 05:17PMThis 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… The post Watching THE…
SOURCE: phindie.com at 07:41AMA little bit naughty at times, semi-Shakespearean lingo is mixed with a good deal of TomFoolery. The post Romeo & Juliet in a Bar (Shakespeare on Tap): 2022 Fringe review appeared first …
SOURCE: phindie.com at 10:23PMUnless you know Geoff Sobelle’s other works, you’ve never seen anything like this. The post FOOD (Geoff Sobelle): 2022 Fringe review appeared first on phindie.
SOURCE: phindie.com at 10:30PMThere are many, many moments that become stories. The post NOT RIGHT NOW (James Christy): 2022 Fringe review appeared first on phindie.
SOURCE: phindie.com at 11:16PMames Joyce is Dead And So Is Paris was presented at Christ Church Annex in Old City in 2003. It was something else!
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