Director John Schultz talks about his immersive staging of Shakespeare’s Macbeth: to a blindfolded audience.
View More Shakespeare’s Darkest Play, Literally: TILL BIRNAM WOOD… returns to the FringeCategory: Interviews
Nowhere Woman: Femme fatale Emilie Krause on 901 NOWHERE STREET
Emilie Krause talks about her Fringe play, her work as an actor and devisor, and how she’s probably not a real-ife femme fatale.
View More Nowhere Woman: Femme fatale Emilie Krause on 901 NOWHERE STREETAn ALL-Black OTHELLO: Director Ozzie Jones talks about his “gloriously liberating” casting for Theatre in the X, part 2
In part two of our interview with Ozzie Jones, the director talks about his decision to cast an ALL-black OTHELLO.
View More An ALL-Black OTHELLO: Director Ozzie Jones talks about his “gloriously liberating” casting for Theatre in the X, part 2Bringing OTHELLO to the Hood: Interview with director Ozzie Jones, part 1
Henrik Eger speaks to director Ozzie Jones about Theatre in the X and presenting Shakespeare in an area some call “the hood”.
View More Bringing OTHELLO to the Hood: Interview with director Ozzie Jones, part 1PAC Presents THE CAPTIVE: FringeArts Interview with Dan Hodge
Philadelphia Artists Collective has produced some of the finest works of the last few Fringe Festivals. Director Dan Hodge tells us about this year’s offering.
View More PAC Presents THE CAPTIVE: FringeArts Interview with Dan HodgeFringe Preview: THE LIGHT PRINCESS (Tony Lawton with Ugly Stepsister)
The creators/performers of THE LIGHT PRINCESS discuss the development of their adaptation of the 19th-century Scottish fairytale before its workshop production in the Fringe.
View More Fringe Preview: THE LIGHT PRINCESS (Tony Lawton with Ugly Stepsister)1 Actor, 1 Audience Member, 64 Shows, 10 Billion Possibilities: Sam Henderson’s 100 takes over the Fringe Festival
Sam Henderson is keeping the location and the subject of his Fringe show secret. In this interview, Phindie tries to squeeze out a little more information.
View More 1 Actor, 1 Audience Member, 64 Shows, 10 Billion Possibilities: Sam Henderson’s 100 takes over the Fringe FestivalGayFest! Reveals a Different Kind of “Love Triangle”: Interview with MOTHER TONGUE playwright F.J. Hartland, part 2
Part 2 of our interview with GayFest! playwright FJ Hartland.
View More GayFest! Reveals a Different Kind of “Love Triangle”: Interview with MOTHER TONGUE playwright F.J. Hartland, part 2The limits of forgiveness: Interview with FROM WHITE PLAINS playwright Michael Perlman
Successful young director-playwright Michael Perlman talks to Phindie ahead of his new play in GayFest! 2015.
View More The limits of forgiveness: Interview with FROM WHITE PLAINS playwright Michael PerlmanCruising through History with Rainbow Sails at GayFest!: Interview with Sean Chandler and David Leeper, co-authors of AT THE FLASH, part 2
Part two of our interview with GayFest! cowriters David Leeper and Sean Chandler.
View More Cruising through History with Rainbow Sails at GayFest!: Interview with Sean Chandler and David Leeper, co-authors of AT THE FLASH, part 2“Nobody cares what a playwright looks like”: GayFest! playwright F.J. Hartland talks MOTHER TONGUE and more (part 1)
FJ Hartland’s MOTHER TONGUE, about a different kind of love triangle, will be one of the highlight productions of this year’s GayFest!
View More “Nobody cares what a playwright looks like”: GayFest! playwright F.J. Hartland talks MOTHER TONGUE and more (part 1)GayFest! Goes Beyond the Gay Archetype: Interview with Sean Chandler and David Leeper, co-authors of AT THE FLASH, part 1
Couple David Leeper and Sean Chandler created AT THE FLASH, the flagship production of GayFest! 2015.
View More GayFest! Goes Beyond the Gay Archetype: Interview with Sean Chandler and David Leeper, co-authors of AT THE FLASH, part 1Hot Spontaneous Performers: FringeArts Interview with David Zambrano on SOUL PROJECT
Republished by kind permission from the FringeArts blog. “Since the beginning of my career as a choreographer, I have always selected a group of international…
View More Hot Spontaneous Performers: FringeArts Interview with David Zambrano on SOUL PROJECTTheater’s Second Sex: Caridad Svich on playwriting as a woman, as an act of political resistance, and for the first Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Festival
When Caridad Svich decided to be a playwright, she read every playwright in the public library. Only one of them was a woman. Svich talks to Phindie ahead of the PWTF.
View More Theater’s Second Sex: Caridad Svich on playwriting as a woman, as an act of political resistance, and for the first Philadelphia Women’s Theatre FestivalHome Run! Shakespeare at a Ball Park: Interview with Rosemary Hay and Rudy Caporaso of REV Theatre Company, part 2
REV Theatre Co brings THE COMEDY OF ERRORS to Columbus Square Park in South Philly.
View More Home Run! Shakespeare at a Ball Park: Interview with Rosemary Hay and Rudy Caporaso of REV Theatre Company, part 2Building New Audiences for Classical Theater: Interview with Rosemary Hay and Rudy Caporaso, artistic co-directors of REV Theatre Company
REV Theatre Company presents Shakespeare and other classical works in innovative ways. We talk to their co-directors.
View More Building New Audiences for Classical Theater: Interview with Rosemary Hay and Rudy Caporaso, artistic co-directors of REV Theatre CompanyAnt Hampton talks audience, space, and the experience of the extra ahead of Fringe Festival show, THE EXTRA PEOPLE
“It’s almost like this isn’t really a ‘show,’ more some kind of process.”… Ant Hampton talks THE EXTRA PEOPLE
View More Ant Hampton talks audience, space, and the experience of the extra ahead of Fringe Festival show, THE EXTRA PEOPLEHow to Get Accepted into PlayPenn: Interview with founder Paul Meshejian, Part 3
How do you get your play accepted to PlayPenn? Founder Paul Meshejian gives the low down to the selection process.
View More How to Get Accepted into PlayPenn: Interview with founder Paul Meshejian, Part 3PlayPenn, Theater, and “A comfortable place for misfits”: Interview with founder Paul Meshejian, Part 1
It’s unfashionable to suggest there’s such a thing as human nature, but we are “Homo narrans”—Man, the story teller. The theater will always be with us—as a sacred space.
View More PlayPenn, Theater, and “A comfortable place for misfits”: Interview with founder Paul Meshejian, Part 1Many Goodly Creatures: Allen Radway talks THE TEMPEST, Simpatico, and fatherhood
Even a brief encounter with Allen Radway reveals the intelligence, sympathy, and generosity of spirit evident in his theatrical work. We talk to him ahead of his newest, CCTCs THE TEMPEST.
View More Many Goodly Creatures: Allen Radway talks THE TEMPEST, Simpatico, and fatherhood