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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.
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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.
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Neal Zoren’s BEST OF PHILADELPHIA THEATER, 2016
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
José Rivera’s fantastically powerful portent of a world is fabulously riveting as directed by James Ijames at Villanova Theatre.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Moonwalking on the Moon: Lindsay Smiling on Michael Jackson, Philly theater, and the inaugural production by Orbiter 3
This week marks a landmark in independent theater in Philadelphia: the inaugural production by Orbiter 3, a new producing playwrights collective. Over the next three years,…
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MICHAEL & EDIE (Villanova Theater): 60-second review
It’s more than the classic boy meets girl, boy likes girl, girl is cold to boy tale:. Rachel Bonds’s MICHAEL & EDIE is a whirlwind of realization, emotion, and introspection.
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The winners of the 2014 Barrymore Awards…
From about 100 entries, winners in twenty-two categories were selected by a panel of twelve judges and announced at the Barrymore Awards ceremony tonight. InterAct…
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Orbiter 3: A new producing playwrights collective to launch in Philadelphia
A group of Philadelphia playwrights have come together to form a producing collective, Orbiter 3, to showcase their work.
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LA BÊTE (Arden Theatre Company): “Excellence Must Struggle to Survive!”
David Hirson’s riotous comedy in rhyming couplets evokes the farcical Baroque style of Molière while conveying a timeless message about high art versus low art.
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WILD WITH HAPPY (Center Stage, Baltimore): All That and More!
Cathartic, camp, and euphorically uplifting, WILD WITH HAPPY—Philadelphia native Colman Domingo’s madcap adventure with death and grief, love, loss, and sexuality—keeps you laughing while tugging at your heartstrings and ardently reaffirming the joy of life. That’s quite an accomplishment, and Center Stage’s Baltimore premiere is quite a production.
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Freezing one’s laughter mid-stream: THE MOST SPECTACULARLY LAMENTABLE TRIAL OF MIZ MARTHA WASHINGTON by James Ijames
“You will be broken and put back together again,” as one theatregoer commented on Facebook.
Given the explosive nature of this extraordinary play, I thought it important to talk to the playwright directly.
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Conversations on Chekhov: What gimmicks? The Arden’s THREE SISTERS has a lasting effect
In September of 1900 Anton Chekhov confessed in a letter to his actress-wife Olga Knipper: “I find it very difficult to write THREE SISTERS, much more…
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WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT (InterAct): Are You Black Enough?
Drury’s funny, traumatic, inventive and timely play will stab at you, personally, at least once. She asks whether it is important that a story be told, or if it is more important that it be told in a certain way. She uses the events in Namibia to illustrate the cracks in our own culture, the divides caused by racial issues even among a group of people who would probably all vote for the same candidate..
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Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Brother/Sister Trilogy: Philadelphia audiences get a great look at an acclaimed new playwright
Allen Radway, James Ijames, and Daniel Student discuss Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Brother/Sister trilogy. All three plays in the series hit Philadelphia stages this fall.
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