25 stories by "Josh"
IT'S SHOWTIME! Beetlejuice The Musical is officially coming to the West End. The Broadway smash-hit, based on Tim Burton's beloved 1988 cult film, will make its London debut at the Prince Ed…
Plans for a Broadway revival of Chess are in the works. Tim Rice, who wrote the musical with ABBA's Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, has revealed that the show is set to return to Broadway…
"In film," pronounced Ivo van Hove, director of Toneelgroep Amsterdam, the largest, and most culturally influential, theater in the Netherlands, "the director is the god of his creation." On…
Pig Iron Theatre Company's latest wild theatrical creation opens this week at FringeArts. I Promised Myself to Live Faster is an absurdist sci-fi epic and wild allegory about gayness in 2015…
Sebastian (aka Sebastian Cummings aka Sean Cummings) is debuting his new show Showbiz, May 21"23 at the Adobe Cafe (1919 East Passyunk Avenue), which he describes as "part theater, part conc…
"I was fascinated by the way TV is made: the way you shoot out of sequence and how it actually feels more fake, even with real planes, for example, than being on a theater set." The Incredib…
Olive Prince, leader of Olive Prince Dance, is showing an in-progess version of her new full length dance, Of our remnants, Thursday April 30"Saturday May 2 this weekend at the Iron Factory …
2015 Neighborhood Fringe Registration begins has begun at myphillyfringe.com! Yes, my friends, it is that time of year again, that time of year to starting gearing up to the 2015 Fringe F…
July 22, 2014, in the morning: The main structural component of WetLand by Mary Mattingly, a houseboat, turns towards its destination–the dock at the Independence Seaport Muse…
FringeArts, June 20, 2014: The Beserker Residents rehearse The Talkback. (l to r) Bradley K. Wrenn, David Johnson, and  Justin Jain. Photo: Said Johnson.
“I wrote the book that I wanted to read. This is the book I wish someone had given me twenty years ago.” Are you an artist in Philadelphia, thinking, How the hell does t…
June 2, 2014. The cast of Wild by the Groundswell Theatre Company during a pre-performance walk-though at FringeArts for an excerpted showing at Scratch Night. Photo: Said Johnson.
It is time to start placing more value on the "art" part of performing arts. When it comes to dance and theater and all the multidisciplinary performance hybrids, the support for performing …
A Conceit Give me your hand Make room for me to lead and follow you beyond this rage of poetry. Let others have the privacy of touching words and love of loss of love. For me Give me your ha…
Here’s the “offending” video that got its six dancing Iranian participants sent to jail in Iran; they were then made to repent on national TV. As the  National Ira…
"The most I've ever made in a year is $23,000, and that year was filled with 60-hour weeks of overlapping work, which I was thrilled to have." Philadelphia's theater scene is better than eve…
Communitas is a Latin noun that describes an unstructured society where humans are equal. It also has a sociological connotation of a society that is greater than the sum of its parts. For t…
This weekend, May 16"18, BRAT Productions continues its tradition of rock cabaret with Always Coming Soon: The Future at the Performance Garage, 1515 Brandywine Street, Philadelphia. Set to …
FringeArts, May 8, 2014: Megan Bridge, Jaime Maseda, Melissa Krodman, Mark McCloughan, Kelly Bond in rehearsal for an as-yet-untitled work by Melissa Krodman and Kelly Bond. Photo: Sai…
Remember all those corporate sponsored competitions for philanthropy dollars going to your favorite non-profit, should you vote for them and sign up for the company newsletter? They were the…
Julius Ferraro is a little nervous about performing in his first show since graduating from college"six year's ago. But he is going all in because he is the only performer in the show MICROM…
Dance USA recently posted an article about the announced end of the Trey McIntyre Project, the dance company which is based in Boise, Idaho, and has been a vehicle for choreographer Tr…
"It's kind of an apocryphal story," Adrienne Mackey says about being in a bar with some friends, agonizing over what to name her company, and finally asking the waitress for advice. "In my m…
Nichole Canuso is drawn to what people choose to embrace and what they try to erase from their memories, especially as relates to spaces. In her new solo dance performance (at FringeArts …
What happens when you combine Philadelphia choreographers with dance makers from across the country, give them less than 10 hours to remix and recreate each other's works, and ask them to sh…
