Debra Miller sees a LOT of theater. Indeed, she is the most prolific theater writer in town. Henrik Eger talked to Deb about her background and writing.
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THE (CURIOUS CASE OF THE) WATSON INTELLIGENCE (Azuka): Do we all need a Watson in our lives
In a time-bending script that requires each of the actors to play multiple roles across the last century or so, “Watson”, played in all his guises by Griffin Stanton-Ameisen, is the force that ties them all together.
View More THE (CURIOUS CASE OF THE) WATSON INTELLIGENCE (Azuka): Do we all need a Watson in our livesMARY POPPINS (Walnut): Flying between lightness and gravitas
In doing MARY POPPINS, a director has to decide between approaches: light and fantastical like the movie or darker like the book.
View More MARY POPPINS (Walnut): Flying between lightness and gravitasMaking Dreams Happen: The closing of the Shubin Theatre
The much-loved little Shubin Theatre is closing. Rich Rubin shares his memories and thoughts.
View More Making Dreams Happen: The closing of the Shubin TheatreJUG-BABY: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY (Transmissions Theatre): A jar of surprises
There is magic and wonder in the world, and not the cheap kind from childhood fairy tales, but the hard earned kind from adults who speak in their own true voices and dare to tell us how we’re all put together.
View More JUG-BABY: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY (Transmissions Theatre): A jar of surprisesTHE MATTER OF FRANK SCHAEFER (Curio): Go and do likewise
Curio personalizes a national news story: THE MATTER OF FRANK SCHAEFER, a Methodist priest defrocked for officiating his son’s same sex wedding.
View More THE MATTER OF FRANK SCHAEFER (Curio): Go and do likewiseGREEN PORNO (Isabella Rossellini): Sex and celebrity in the service of a serious message
It’s no secret that sex and celebrity sell, so what better use for those ever-reliable marketing commodities than in the service of a serious message?…
View More GREEN PORNO (Isabella Rossellini): Sex and celebrity in the service of a serious messageTo alter or not to alter, that is the question: Dan Hodge on directing HAMLET in unorthodox ways
Dan Hodge discusses his edited version of HAMLET, onstage through November 23 at Hedgerow Theatre.
View More To alter or not to alter, that is the question: Dan Hodge on directing HAMLET in unorthodox waysTIL DIVORCE DO US PART: THE MUSICAL (Society Hill Playhouse): The annoying ex you never wanted to see
This 90-minute cabaret featuring of three bitter divorced women and a newspaper pen pal crams heartless bubble gum jingles and cheap laughs into the plot of a confused Lifetime special.
View More TIL DIVORCE DO US PART: THE MUSICAL (Society Hill Playhouse): The annoying ex you never wanted to seeA STREETCAR NAMED DURANG (IRC): 60-second review
High-energy hilarity fills L’Étage as the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium remounts its 2008 Fringe hit, a trio of one-act parodies by Christopher Durang.
View More A STREETCAR NAMED DURANG (IRC): 60-second reviewPESTS opens Inis Nua’s reading series tonight
Vivienne Franzmann’s new play, PESTS, is the first offering of Inis Nua Theatre Company’s 2014/15 reading series
View More PESTS opens Inis Nua’s reading series tonightBIG LOVE (Villanova): 60-second review
Based upon a 2,500-year-old classical Greek play, BIG LOVE tells the story of 50 brides who show up at an Italian mansion, fleeing their 50 cousins/potential husbands.
View More BIG LOVE (Villanova): 60-second reviewTHE (CURIOUS CASE OF THE) WATSON INTELLIGENCE (Azuka): Connecting with audience
A thoroughly entertaining, beautifully staged exploration of trust, love, relationships, entanglement, dependency and technology and intimacy.
View More THE (CURIOUS CASE OF THE) WATSON INTELLIGENCE (Azuka): Connecting with audience[audio] Exclusive reading of John Rosenberg’s CANA OF GALILEE (Hella Fresh Theater)
Exclusive recording of John Rosenberg’s CANA OF GALILEE, a full-length play only performed once, in a living room in Philadelphia, April 2014.
View More [audio] Exclusive reading of John Rosenberg’s CANA OF GALILEE (Hella Fresh Theater)BLOOD WEDDING (PAC/MPiRP): A symbiotic relationship between the arts and education
Love, betrayal, vengeance, and death are the themes of Federico García Lorca’s Spanish Symbolist tragedy, BLOOD WEDDING.
View More BLOOD WEDDING (PAC/MPiRP): A symbiotic relationship between the arts and education[NYC] STICKS AND BONES (The New Group): A revival with a local connection is attracting attention in New York
STICKS AND BONES vents Vietnam era fury against a war that sent an endless stream of young men home damaged or in body bags.
View More [NYC] STICKS AND BONES (The New Group): A revival with a local connection is attracting attention in New YorkCAUGHT (InterAct): On the nature of art and truth
When artful deceptions permeate an artist’s life, it casts doubt on everything we believe but never really knew.
View More CAUGHT (InterAct): On the nature of art and truthRED SPEEDO (Theatre Exile): A dive into the waters of amorality
“We all do things that are sorta good, and things that are sorta not so good.” In RED SPEEDO, each character is capable of doing those things that are sorta not so good.
View More RED SPEEDO (Theatre Exile): A dive into the waters of amoralityAny house is a DREAM HOUSE with some imagination: Philadelphia Local Artists for Youth and Plays & Players prepare a Rainy Day Play
A product of the Philadelphia Local Artists for Youthprogram, DREAM HOUSE is is designed to unleash the creativity of audiences young and old alike.
View More Any house is a DREAM HOUSE with some imagination: Philadelphia Local Artists for Youth and Plays & Players prepare a Rainy Day PlayTHE GLASS MENAGERIE (Act II): 60-second review
Tennessee Williams’ classic story comes to life on the stage of Act II Playhouse.
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