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

Seduction by examples of computational intractability

Philadelphia playwright wins prestigious award.

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

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

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

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.

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”

Welcome to Philadelphia, international Fringe artists.

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

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

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

Cameron Kelsall has some ideas for the new executive director.

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

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

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

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

Beyond being entertaining and thought-provoking, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s AN OCTOROON is an experience

In Africa as elsewhere, for queers as for everyone, life plays out messily in small tragedies and little loves.

Death, as experienced in director James Ijames’s comic yet movingly evocative production of Sarah Ruhl’s play, is a continuation of life.