James Ijames
KILL MOVE PARADISE (Wilma Theater): 2018 Fringe review
There’s no fourth wall here: the audience is complicit in the consideration of POC men who lost their lives to judicial murder
All Things Must Pass: Orbiter 3 members consider their finale
In the end, the plays you produce are greater than the plays you don’t
Back to Prison: Playwright Kash Goins on his reprised play V to X at Arden Theatre
Kash Goins talks to Phindie about the new production of his acclaimed prison drama and the Arden’s coming season.
Theater in Sketch: THE BROWNINGS (Orbiter 3)
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.
THE BROWNINGS (Orbiter 3): Let me count the f%&*ing ways
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”
International Fringe 2017: A welcome to theater from around the world coming to the Philadelphia Fringe Festival
Welcome to Philadelphia, international Fringe artists.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THOMAS JEFFERSON, CHARLES DICKENS & COUNT LEO TOLSTOY: DISCORD (Lantern Theater Company): Locked in limbo with literati
The Lantern team transforms an essentially all-talk playscript into an engaging, living piece of theater.
Local playwright makes good: An interview with Jacqueline Goldfinger
It’s been a banner month for local playwright Jacqueline Goldfinger.
WHITE (Theatre Horizon): Representation matters
Playwright James Ijames offers a searing examination of the commodification of black experience.
How should Philadelphia Theatre Company rebrand itself?
Cameron Kelsall has some ideas for the new executive director.
WHITE: James Ijames on PlayPenn and Playwriting
James talked to Phindie about the genesis of WHITE and its development at PlayPenn, a Philadelphia-based organization for the development of new plays.
Under the wing of America’s most promising playwrights: PlayPenn interns speak, part 2
PlayPenn interns describe what its like to work with top playwrights.
Neal Zoren’s BEST OF PHILADELPHIA THEATER, 2016
Neal Zoren chose his favorite productions, directors, and actors from the last year.
MARISOL (Villanova): Wake up call by golf club
José Rivera’s fantastically powerful portent of a world is fabulously riveting as directed by James Ijames at Villanova Theatre.
AN OCTOROON (Wilma): A melodrama, a social commentary, an experience
Beyond being entertaining and thought-provoking, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s AN OCTOROON is an experience
A KNEE THAT CAN BEND (Orbiter 3): Love and life in a hot country
In Africa as elsewhere, for queers as for everyone, life plays out messily in small tragedies and little loves.
EURYDICE (Villanova Theatre): Death is a continuation of life
Death, as experienced in director James Ijames’s comic yet movingly evocative production of Sarah Ruhl’s play, is a continuation of life.
How 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.
MOON MAN WALK (Orbiter 3): Interstellar overdrive
James Ijames’s MOON MAN WALK, the first offering by new playwrights’ collective Orbiter 3 presents a fantasy world and a very real story. And a manic pixie girl.
