By the Bog of Cats " a modern Irish drama by Marina Carr, who has taught in Ireland and the U.S., including at Villanova University " echoes classical Greek theater, especially Medea by Euri…
"I'm not going to take this on the road unless it's as good as what people have read about, with the same lighting and the same sound. I think that's my biggest bequest"that I imposed my sta…
Eugene O'Neill, the only American playwright to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature (1936), a man who struggled with alcoholism but who had the courage to address problematic, taboo subje…
Lauren Rile Smith, a Philadelphia poet and performer, founded Tangle Movement Arts in 2011. She has trained trapeze and other circus arts at the Philadelphia School of Circus Arts and many o…
The 2017 Philadelphia Fringe Festival offers a wide range of genres and topics, but few as sensitive and important as Suicide Stories: Gallery of the Untold " nine short plays by nine pla…
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 19…
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…
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 theatergoers, …
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 productio…
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…
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…
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 Nothingness t…
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 pers…
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 Samuel a…
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…
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 Child'…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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 publ…
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…
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, E…
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: We went …
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…