Applied 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…
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…
"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 Laughs…
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 Gay…
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 P…
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 sna…
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…
"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."Â She began in Michigan (where she trained…
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 as …
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…
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…
Here 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 (1707…
This 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…
"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 inspired by …
"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, Germany, and …
Henrik 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.
Machinal 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…
Machinal 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…
Racial ignorance and fear have retreated since To Kill A Mockingbird first appeared; its often maligned author deserves some of the credit.
“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 …
Henrik: 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, "Wil…
Villanova 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…
In 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 You…
Young 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 aboliti…
Defending 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…