TRUE WEST (Subscension): 2018 Fringe review
This little company has heft and promise. The Fringe has given them the opportunity to launch and they’ve certainly taken advantage of it.
Sam Shepard
SIMPATICO (McCarter Theatre Center): A Red Orchid Theatre’s production comes to Princeton
Ralph Malachowski see’s the Pride Night performance of Sam Shepard’s SIMPATICO.
Local playwright makes good: An interview with Jacqueline Goldfinger
It’s been a banner month for local playwright Jacqueline Goldfinger.
IRC’s presents some Durang classics
Featuring spoofs of American theater luminaries, IRC’s 2008 hit A STREETCAR NAMED DURANG returns this month for a brief seven-show run.
IN A DARK DARK HOUSE (Simpatico Theatre Project): Oh! Neil LaBute is not just a sadistic prig!
At the opening night performance of LaBute’s IN A DARK DARK HOUSE I had what alcoholics refer to as a moment of clarity: Suddenly an entire oeuvre littered with cruel antihero bastards made sense.
BURIED CHILD (Iron Age): Decay and Dysfunction in America’s Heartland
From the moment you arrive, Iron Age Theatre’s production of Sam Shepard’s BURIED CHILD, directed and designed by John Doyle and Randall Wise, thrusts you into a deeply disturbing world of grime, decay, and depression. Mounds of barren dirt, wood chips, and dried-out stalks surround and invade a tumbledown farmhouse with a rusted old mailbox that hasn’t seen a delivery in years. Inside, a filthy stained sofa with torn-up upholstery and torn-out stuffing is held together by black duct tape, as huge gaps between the rough-hewn wall slats let in the pouring rain and dreary darkness of a relentless storm.
TRUE WEST (Theatre Exile): Sibling rivalry and the American dream
Sibling rivalry, conflicting personalities, and antithetical lifestyles regress to anti-social antics, primal rage, and role reversal in TRUE WEST, Sam Shepard’s dark comedy about two adult brothers, estranged for five…
TRUE WEST (Theatre Exile): a rare, in-your-face take on a modern classic
Theatre Exile mounts new, dicey plays and modern classics—badass classics, that is, from outstanding contemporary playwrights like Tracy Letts, Martin McDonough, and in this case, Sam Shepard. For anyone out…
Fringe Preview 6: North Liberties Fringe
For a while, Northern Liberties replaced Old City as a hub of the Fringe, with the headquarters of the former Live Arts and Philly Fringe, the festival box office, and…
A Taste of the Fringe in Early Summer: New City Stage Presents Two Sam Shepard Shorts
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival receives hundreds of applications from American drama troupes every year. Philadelphia’s New City Stage Company is in talks to become one of those selected to travel…
A Philly theater double header this Saturday
One of the best things about the annual Philly Fringe festival is the opportunity to see several works of performing arts in one day or evening. I remember a few years ago…
