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.
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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 FestivalAT THE FLASH (Quince/GayFest!): No wigs, no props, no problem
Leeper uses the story of five disparate characters at one gay bar to trace five decades of LGBT history.
View More AT THE FLASH (Quince/GayFest!): No wigs, no props, no problemTHE COMEDY OF ERRORS (REV): I wasn’t brought up on Shakespeare; an epistolary review
This review of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors was written in form of an Open Letter to a teenager from Jamaica.
View More THE COMEDY OF ERRORS (REV): I wasn’t brought up on Shakespeare; an epistolary reviewGayFest! 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 PerlmanRAGE OF ACHILLES (CCTC): The absurdity and tragedy of war
Commonwealth Classic Theatre presents a world-premiere production of Paul Parente’s meaningful tragicomedy on the absurdities and horrors of war, inspired by the events and characters from Homer’s Iliad.
View More RAGE OF ACHILLES (CCTC): The absurdity and tragedy of warASYLUM (Cheril N. Clarke): A shout loud enough to hear
In a room where everyone else is whispering, ASYLUM screams at the top of its lungs: “Listen.”
View More ASYLUM (Cheril N. Clarke): A shout loud enough to hearTongue & Groove asks “Who Are You? Who who, who who?”
This month, Tongue & Groove Spontaneous Theater is revisiting their popular improv show, WHO, in which the audience is asked to honestly answer the simple question “Who Are You?”
View More Tongue & Groove asks “Who Are You? Who who, who who?”GayFest! 2015: Preview and schedule
GayFest! shows feature gay characters, but they are no more “gay plays” than plays featuring straight characters are “straight plays”.
View More GayFest! 2015: Preview and scheduleCruising 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 2Get your 2015 Fringe Guide at a Special Launch Party
Red 40 and DJ Jersey Dan give a taste of the Fringe Festival at the Guide Launch Party this First Friday.
View More Get your 2015 Fringe Guide at a Special Launch PartyHEATHERS: THE MUSICAL (Vulcan Lyric): A cult classic whose time may have passed
A revitalized opera company offering musical performances in Philly in the summer is a good thing. But maybe some things just aren’t funny anymore, like teen suicide, gay jokes, and trying to blow up a school.
View More HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL (Vulcan Lyric): A cult classic whose time may have passed“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)How to Fringe? On a Bike.
It’s more dope than Lance Armstrong. And ballsier too. The Phindie Fringe Bike Tour is the best way to enjoy the 2015 Fringe Festival.
View More How to Fringe? On a Bike.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 1ON GOLDEN POND (BCP): 60-second review
Bucks County Playhouse presents Ernest Thompson’s ON GOLDEN POND. Norman (Keir Dullea) and Ethel (Mia Dillon) Thayer are spending another summer on Golden Pond in…
View More ON GOLDEN POND (BCP): 60-second reviewShhhhh! C’mere. Have you heard about the Night Market?
“There are so few secrets left in life, I wanted to make something where you can’t put it in a search bar and get it.”
View More Shhhhh! C’mere. Have you heard about the Night Market?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 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 FestivalHENRY V (PA Shakespeare): The king is but a man
While HENRY V contains two of Shakespeare’s most stirring speeches, smaller, less rhetorical moments are the more engrossing in Matt Pfeiffer’s staging for Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
View More HENRY V (PA Shakespeare): The king is but a man