Navin Rawanchaikul has created an epic portrait of the history of Philly’s historic Plays and Players Theater. Hundreds of faces have been painted with photographic realism in dynamic, often silly…
I went to the Philadelphia History Museum at the Atwater Kent last week on a tipoff from Mary Syndor. “The Played in Philadelphia gallery,” claims their website, “will feature changing exhibitions devoted to…
Filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan has used Philadelphia and its environs as the setting for all of his critically acclaimed films, most famously his 1999 breakthrough movie, The Sixth Sense, which…
Paris’s reputation as a a city of architectural beauty is long-held and its emblematic structures have influenced generations of Philadelphia architects and designers. This cultural exchange is the subject of…
We here at PPAA are all for the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA)–it’s great to have a major springtime performing arts festival in the city. But is it…
This Is Not A Theater Review Thoughts on Destiny Estimate, the American Theater Critics Association, and theater criticism. 
Broadway Wants You to Vote Mario Lopez and Daphne Rubin-Vega lead a group of Broadway performers lending their voices to a new “Get Out the Vote” music video 
10 Ways YOU Can Improve Theater Criticism Actions you take since you’re upset with the theater criticism in Philadelphia. 
Burning (dir. Chang-dong Lee): Philadelphia Film Festival review Based on a Murakami short story, BURNING clocks in at 148 indispensable minutes. 
Shoplifters (dir. Hirokazu Koreeda): Philadelphia Film Festival review The best films are those which afford the viewer an inside look into a life experience different from their own Support Phindie operations
A revue, and review, of performer Maurice Hines’s life. more…
