My mother tells a story about a time when I was young—3-years-old or 4—and I was trying desperately to get the swing I was seated on moving. My little legs kicked and kicked but I stayed motionless. After a minute or two, an adult came over and gave me a push and that’s all it took. I caught the momentum and I was swinging! As she tells it, I turned to the little boy on the swing next to mine and exclaimed in a giddy, high-pitched voice “I was getting so frustrated! Were you getting frustrated, too, Brooksie? I was getting so frustrated!”
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NOTES from the INCUBATOR (SIMPATICO): Entry One: The Collective Spirit
Writing this play has been hard. It feels like squinting into the distance at an object that I think I should be identifiable but is just too blurry. Luckily, I have a cohort on this trek. If you met Lena (Barnard) and I, it would feel a lot like an episode of Gilmore Girls or the West Wing. We talk over each other and make obscure references and laugh at inside jokes that no one else gets. Being around Lena makes me feel entirely secure. I can be myself with her. I like to think the feeling is mutual. Who else will get all her Julie Andrews references?
View More NOTES from the INCUBATOR (SIMPATICO): Entry One: The Collective SpiritID:3 (HYBRIDGE): The Name of the Beast
Article courtesy of Art Attack Philly, in association with Drexel University and the Knight Foundation. See the original article here. In a way, art is always about identity.…
View More ID:3 (HYBRIDGE): The Name of the BeastUpdate on White Pines: A New Home and a Full Slate
On March 1, White Pines Productions, which had been without a headquarters since its displacement from historic Elstowe Manor in 2013 (read about the displacement…
View More Update on White Pines: A New Home and a Full SlateThe fault, dear Brutus, is Super Racism: Makoto Hirano Criticizes Lantern’s Julius Caesar
“Will it be in yellow face,” my friend asked when I told him about Lantern Theater Company’s decision to stage Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in feudal Japan, when what the meant was “in kimonos with some Japanese screens and music” seemed somehow culturally tone deaf.
View More The fault, dear Brutus, is Super Racism: Makoto Hirano Criticizes Lantern’s Julius CaesarJoin the Battle: Team Sunshine & Immersive Arts Involvement
On their website, Team Sunshine Performance Corporation calls themselves “an unstoppable force for good.” Among other things, they love play fighting and projects that sound insane. In that vein is their current collaboration with Shakespeare in Clark Park, HENRY IV: YOUR PRINCE AND MINE.
View More Join the Battle: Team Sunshine & Immersive Arts InvolvementPhoto Essay: Kyle Cassidy captures DANCING AT LUGHNASA (Curio Theatre)
Photographer Kyle Cassidy is a Philadelphia treasure. He has been documenting American culture since the 1990s, photographing goths, punks, cutters, politicians, metalheads, dominatrices, scholars, and…
View More Photo Essay: Kyle Cassidy captures DANCING AT LUGHNASA (Curio Theatre)On the Universality of Shakespeare: Roman History through a Shoji Screen in the Lantern’s THE TRAGEDY OF JULIUS CAESAR
Director Charles McMahon, founding artistic director of the Lantern Theater Company, asserts that all of Shakespeare’s plays, whenever or wherever they’re set, are in fact observations about contemporary England. By shifting the locales to places outside of his homeland.
View More On the Universality of Shakespeare: Roman History through a Shoji Screen in the Lantern’s THE TRAGEDY OF JULIUS CAESARYou’re Probably Missing Out: A tour of Kensington’s performance spaces
The performance spaces which have made Kensington their home (Walking Fish Theatre, Hella Fresh, Mascher Space, and fidgetspace) are remote, both financially and physically, from the city, yet still close enough to converse artistically with downtown venues and even to attract funding.
View More You’re Probably Missing Out: A tour of Kensington’s performance spacesCare to Dance? The Philadelphia dance scene is alive and well in 2014, catering to classical palates and avant-garde tastes alike
The Philadelphia dance scene is alive and well in 2014, bringing forth a series of diverse performances catering to classical palates and avant-garde tastes alike
View More Care to Dance? The Philadelphia dance scene is alive and well in 2014, catering to classical palates and avant-garde tastes alikeCelebrating Shakespeare at 450: An Interview with The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre’s Carmen Khan
Carmen Khan has devoted much of her life and professional career to Shakespeare. She is well known to the Philadelphia theater community as the founding…
View More Celebrating Shakespeare at 450: An Interview with The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre’s Carmen KhanBalletX’s Matthew Neenan downshifts for THERE I WAS
Earlier this month BalletX dancers had their pointe shoes ready for a rehearsal for Matthew Neenan’s ballet There I Was. The piece showcases how inventive, within and out of specific pointe shoe classicism, Neenan can be. Even though it is weeks before the opening There I Was looks ready, Neenan only moved around to cue a specific music change, apologizing to the dancers for the pause.
View More BalletX’s Matthew Neenan downshifts for THERE I WASFringeArts Progress Report: The latest on the High Pressure Fire Service Building of 1903
Since my initial tour of the new FringeArts headquarters in August 2012, the projected opening (originally set for the Spring of 2013, then for the…
View More FringeArts Progress Report: The latest on the High Pressure Fire Service Building of 1903Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Brother/Sister Trilogy: Philadelphia audiences get a great look at an acclaimed new playwright
Allen Radway, James Ijames, and Daniel Student discuss Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Brother/Sister trilogy. All three plays in the series hit Philadelphia stages this fall.
View More Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Brother/Sister Trilogy: Philadelphia audiences get a great look at an acclaimed new playwrightRoy Kaiser looks forward and back as Pennsylvania Ballet turns 50
Published by The Dance Journal. Reprinted with kind permission. Pennsylvania Ballet launches its 50th season this month with the celebrations, reunions and gala performances, but…
View More Roy Kaiser looks forward and back as Pennsylvania Ballet turns 50A Philadelphia playwright you probably don’t know, but should
A hilarious and affecting world premiere by one of the best writers in Philadelphia is opening tomorrow, and you probably don’t know about it.
View More A Philadelphia playwright you probably don’t know, but shouldHow universal is Romeo and Juliet? Challenging hetronormative assumptions.
Shakespeare is timeless. Romeo and Juliet is a universal love story. You have probably heard those sentiments expressed before, but are they true? Well, it’s…
View More How universal is Romeo and Juliet? Challenging hetronormative assumptions.The Perfect Company in the Perfect City: REGENCY AND REVELRY at Lantern Theater Company
It’s now two hundred years ago that the famous line was published: “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of…
View More The Perfect Company in the Perfect City: REGENCY AND REVELRY at Lantern Theater CompanyRevolution Shakespeare! The FIVE BEST Shakespeare plays according to artistic director Griffin Stanton-Ameisen
The FIVE BEST Shakespeare plays according to Revolution Shakespeare artistic director Griffin Stanton-Ameisen.
View More Revolution Shakespeare! The FIVE BEST Shakespeare plays according to artistic director Griffin Stanton-AmeisenNICE AND FRESH theater in Mount Airy
What a pleasant corner of Philadelphia is Mount Airy. A suburban urban neighborhood: trees and grass yards but also sidewalks and train lines; driveways and…
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