We hear from PlayPenn interns about the daily goings on of the conference.
Based on the classic, insightful novel by John Steinbeck, the play delves into the hardship of two migrant workers during the Great Depression and a time when each man was for himself and there was little forgiveness.
Anthony Heald in GYPSY: Journeyman actor makes his way to Philadelphia In a casting coup, Anthony Heald has come to Philadelphia to play Herbie in GYPSY at Arden Theatre. 
Utopias on the Outskirts: Celia Reisman’s suburban landscapes at Gross McCleaf Gallery Celia Reisman transforms American suburbs into landscapes of the mind in four stages. 
WEST SIDE STORY (Media Theatre): 60-second review 2018 is Leonard Bernstein’s centenary, and theaters around the country are programming his greatest works in his honor. Delaware County’s Media Theatre has taken the safe approach of presenting perhap... 
Theater in Sketch: PEACEABLE KINGDOM (Orbiter 3) Rebecca Wright brought out the cute and cuddly demeanor of the cast while still driving home a deep dark message 
Phindie Loses a Contributor: Remembering Allison Rickert, writer, editor, and mensch Before she passed away at the age of just 24, Allison Rickert contributed several delightful articles to Phindie. Henrik Eger offers this personal tribute to a talented writer lost before her time. 
“I go back where I came from to 6th Avenue/ and the tobacconist in the Ziegfeld Theatre and/ casually ask for a carton of Gauloises and a carton/of Picayunes, and a NEW YORK POST with her face on it/ and I am sweating a lot by now and thinking of/ leaning on the john door in the 5 SPOT/ while she whispered a song along the keyboard/ to Mal Waldron and everyone and I stopped breathing” —Frank O’Hara, “The Day Lady Died” EVERYONE AND I takes off from Frank O’Hara’s brilliantly nonchalant poem “The Day Lady Died,” about his New York City intellectual life being interrupted by news of Billie Holiday’s death. The play contrasts O’Hara’s (Mike Dees) apparently carefree existence with the Harlem hardships of Lady Day (Kimberly S. Fairbanks).
