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Considering Wilma’s Next Chapter: Blanka Zizka is joined by three co-directors

Christopher Munden February 18, 2020 No Comments

Changes are afoot at the Wilma Theater, with Blanka Zizka moving on from her role as sole artistic director after forty years in charge of the company.

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MY GENERAL TUBMAN (Arden): Ancestors calling

Toby Zinman January 24, 2020 No Comments

Time travel as spiritual reality and a throbbing moral obligation

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ORLANDO (Villanova): Blurred lines

Joshua Herren October 5, 2019 No Comments

As Orlando journeys through genders and centuries, the pain and beauty of being a human in a body is explored with a vibrant commitment to the process of theater-making. 

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GEM OF THE OCEAN (Arden): A thing of beauty

Kathryn Osenlund March 12, 2019 No Comments

GEM OF THE OCEAN is about a lot of things, including race, mysticism, and murder.

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COMPLETENESS (Theatre Exile): Algorithms and geek romance

Kathryn Osenlund December 9, 2018 No Comments

Seduction by examples of computational intractability

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James Ijames Gets Kesselring Prize

Douglas Cartwright October 10, 2018 No Comments

Philadelphia playwright wins prestigious award.

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KILL MOVE PARADISE (Wilma Theater): 2018 Fringe review

Christopher Munden September 14, 2018 No Comments

There’s no fourth wall here: the audience is complicit in the consideration of POC men who lost their lives to judicial murder

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All Things Must Pass: Orbiter 3 members consider their finale

Christopher Munden May 15, 2018 No Comments

In the end, the plays you produce are greater than the plays you don’t

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Back to Prison: Playwright Kash Goins on his reprised play V to X at Arden Theatre

Christopher Munden March 15, 2018 1 Comment

Kash Goins talks to Phindie about the new production of his acclaimed prison drama and the Arden’s coming season.

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Theater in Sketch: THE BROWNINGS (Orbiter 3)

Chuck Schultz December 19, 2017 No Comments

The art world can be as small as one makes it, and the codependent relationship in THE BROWNINGS begins to shut out the rest of the world.

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THE BROWNINGS (Orbiter 3): Let me count the f%&*ing ways

Christopher Munden December 3, 2017 No Comments

In a heartfelt moment, Elizabeth Barrett Browning tells her poet-husband, “I’m going to dip your cock in laudanum and fuck you til i’m high”

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International Fringe 2017: A welcome to theater from around the world coming to the Philadelphia Fringe Festival

Henrik Eger September 15, 2017 No Comments

Welcome to Philadelphia, international Fringe artists.

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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THOMAS JEFFERSON, CHARLES DICKENS & COUNT LEO TOLSTOY: DISCORD (Lantern Theater Company): Locked in limbo with literati

Kathryn Osenlund June 13, 2017 2 Comments

The Lantern team transforms an essentially all-talk playscript into an engaging, living piece of theater.

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Local playwright makes good: An interview with Jacqueline Goldfinger

Cameron Kelsall May 17, 2017 No Comments

It’s been a banner month for local playwright Jacqueline Goldfinger.

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WHITE (Theatre Horizon): Representation matters

Cameron Kelsall May 8, 2017 2 Comments

Playwright James Ijames offers a searing examination of the commodification of black experience.

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How should Philadelphia Theatre Company rebrand itself?

Cameron Kelsall April 23, 2017 1 Comment

Cameron Kelsall has some ideas for the new executive director.

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WHITE: James Ijames on PlayPenn and Playwriting

Henrik Eger April 7, 2017 No Comments

James talked to Phindie about the genesis of WHITE and its development at PlayPenn, a Philadelphia-based organization for the development of new plays.

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Under the wing of America’s most promising playwrights: PlayPenn interns speak, part 2

Henrik Eger March 5, 2017 No Comments

PlayPenn interns describe what its like to work with top playwrights.

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Neal Zoren’s BEST OF PHILADELPHIA THEATER, 2016

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper February 12, 2017 1 Comment

Neal Zoren chose his favorite productions, directors, and actors from the last year.

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MARISOL (Villanova): Wake up call by golf club

Lisa Panzer November 12, 2016 No Comments

José Rivera’s fantastically powerful portent of a world is fabulously riveting as directed by James Ijames at Villanova Theatre.

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