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Features Theater

Why’s Everyone Such a Critic?

Christopher Munden May 23, 2011 2 Comments

I’ve been a lover of the stage as long as I can remember. Mostly this love has been realized as a patron of local theaters.…

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World War What? Did PIFA forget a little something in its celebration of Paris 1910-20?

Josh McIlvain April 14, 2011 No Comments

IS it just a little strange that in a festival with a theme of Paris 1910–20, few of the shows and none of the literature seem to mention that there was a little war going on

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Dance Features

Dance and Music Rights, or When Were You Planning To Pay For That Music, Friend?

Josh McIlvain April 10, 2011 No Comments

In the not distant past, I was watching a dance performance, which I was enjoying, and I couldn’t help thinking—if this dance company was caught…

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Arts Features

In the Swing: A Brief History of Baseball in Philadelphia

Christopher Munden April 1, 2011 No Comments

Baseball in Philadelphia is riding on a wave of success by the hometown Phillies, winners of four straight National League East titles and two of…

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Features Theater

Five Technical Things About Ancient Roman Comedic Stages You Were Dying To Know

Mara Miller March 27, 2011 1 Comment

We know about the plays, at least if we have read them. But how much do we know about ancient stages? We’ve asked PPAA classics…

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Features Theater

Updike’s guide to reviewing

Christopher Munden March 22, 2011 2 Comments

Submit to whatever spell, weak or strong, is being cast. Better to praise and share than blame and ban. The communion between reviewer and his…

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Dance Features Theater

Lessons from Newt Gingrich: or how we in the theatre and dance communities can stop acting like losers and learn to make the nation love us

Josh McIlvain March 22, 2011 1 Comment

How often have you heard that performing arts are dying, that we’re a niche market, that you can never make a living off of it,…

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Dance Features

Meta is Dead. Long Live Meta.

Josh McIlvain March 15, 2011 No Comments

I want to talk about shows in theatre and dance that deal with the audience head on. In other words, works that acknowledge the existence…

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Features Previews Theater

California Fresh: New theater company launches in Kensington arts space

Christopher Munden March 9, 2011 No Comments

The back streets of Kensington may not have much in common with Hollywood

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Features Theater

It’s “theater”

Christopher Munden March 9, 2011 No Comments

Philadelphia is in the United States, so I’ve decided that theater should be spelled theater, not the English/French theatre. Right.

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Features Theater

What I learned from GQ this time around

Josh McIlvain March 1, 2011 No Comments

Having been inspired last time around to write one of  PPAA’s most popular articles “What Learned From GQ Today,” I thought I might mine the current issue…

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Features

Did you see that thing about how last year Philly hotels had more guests than ever before?

Josh McIlvain February 23, 2011 No Comments

Yeah, so it seems a shitload of people spent the night in Philadelphia in 2010. According to an Inquirer article/industry press release from Feb 19, “Philadelphia filled…

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Arts Dance Features

Conceptual Dance and Star Power

Josh McIlvain February 21, 2011 No Comments

My dance vocabulary is limited, so please forgive me as I redefine terms for my own benefit. When I say conceptual dance, I am referring…

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Features Theater

Philly needs an Equity Showcase—sound the horn!

Josh McIlvain February 13, 2011 1 Comment

I was producing a Fringe show last year, and I had an Equity actor (Actors’ Equity is the union for theatre actors). No problem, my…

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Features Theater

Can we get Cliff Lee to a play?

Josh McIlvain February 5, 2011 No Comments

Cliff Lee made an appearance at the Philadelphia Auto Show, and it was the top story on the evening news. (Since this is a performing…

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Features Theater

So I was looking at the PTI website the other day . . .

Josh McIlvain February 4, 2011 No Comments

Another Sondheim revival is not what will put Philly on the theater map.

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Features Theater

What I learned from GQ today

Josh McIlvain January 27, 2011 No Comments

For those of you familiar with my appearance, you may be surprised to learn that I have a subscription to GQ. Fear not, I do…

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Features Theater

Best of Philadelphia Theater, 2009-2010

Christopher Munden August 4, 2010 2 Comments

August 2 saw the announcement of the 2010 Barrymore Awards. I only saw about 25 plays by 10 companies this season, so my pool of…

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Features

Octavius Catto and the Pythians of Philadelphia

Jerrold Casway March 21, 2010 1 Comment

Black baseball in Philadelphia has roots that go back to the end of the Civil War.

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Features Theater

Philadelphia Theatre Reviews

Christopher Munden June 1, 2009 No Comments

I’ve never acted, except for a brief cameo in a high school musical on which I was working back stage. I have never studied acting,…

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