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,…
View More 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
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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The back streets of Kensington may not have much in common with Hollywood
View More California Fresh: New theater company launches in Kensington arts space
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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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…
View More What I learned from GQ this time around
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…
View More Did you see that thing about how last year Philly hotels had more guests than ever before?
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…
View More Conceptual Dance and Star Power
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…
View More Philly needs an Equity Showcase—sound the horn!
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…
View More Can we get Cliff Lee to a play?
Another Sondheim revival is not what will put Philly on the theater map.
View More So I was looking at the PTI website the other day . . .
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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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…
View More Best of Philadelphia Theater, 2009-2010
Black baseball in Philadelphia has roots that go back to the end of the Civil War.
View More Octavius Catto and the Pythians of Philadelphia
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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