An open letter to a theater legend.
View More Remembering Joel Markowitz, founding editor of DC Metro Theater Arts
Tag: theater criticism
10 Ways YOU Can Improve Theater Criticism
Actions you can take since you’re upset with theater criticism in Philadelphia.
View More 10 Ways YOU Can Improve Theater Criticism
This Is Not A Theater Review
Thoughts on Destiny Estimate, the American Theater Critics Association, and theater criticism.
View More This Is Not A Theater Review
Yo Philly, No More Safe Bullshit
Excerpted from gchat conversations between Christopher Munden and John Rosenberg.
View More Yo Philly, No More Safe Bullshit
Dear White People: TWO TRAINS RUNNING is not a play about race
A critic evaluating TWO TRAINS RUNNING is not an anthropologist studying another culture through their artifacts.
View More Dear White People: TWO TRAINS RUNNING is not a play about race
Ethics for theater critics: Does an analysis by a privileged journalist have value?
Do writers get more ethical the more they are paid?
View More Ethics for theater critics: Does an analysis by a privileged journalist have value?
Critical Mass: Arden’s MACBETH introduces a new feature on Phindie
Readers of Phindie will know that I’m a big fan of William Shakespeare. Yet in the Fall, when I got an invitation to see a…
View More Critical Mass: Arden’s MACBETH introduces a new feature on Phindie
Code of Practice for Theater Critics
the Code of Practice for the International Association of Theatre Critics
View More Code of Practice for Theater Critics
Debra Miller: An interview with Philadelphia’s most prolific theater reviewer
Debra Miller sees a LOT of theater. Indeed, she is the most prolific theater writer in town. Henrik Eger talked to Deb about her background and writing.
View More Debra Miller: An interview with Philadelphia’s most prolific theater reviewer
Why Phindie? The editor’s personal statement
Personal statement by Phindie editor Christopher Munden. How he got into publishing and why he started Phindie.
View More Why Phindie? The editor’s personal statement
“The Experiment”: ARCADIA (Lantern), Introduction to an experiment in criticism
Phindie writer Michael Fisher introduces his multi-part critical experiment, using the Lantern’s production of ARCADIA as his guinea pig subject.
View More “The Experiment”: ARCADIA (Lantern), Introduction to an experiment in criticism
The Conversation Starter: A Fringe show, a reviewer’s word choice, and why it’s good to talk
Conversations are not always comfortable, but when Colie McClellan had an issue with a Phindie review, she decided to start one.
View More The Conversation Starter: A Fringe show, a reviewer’s word choice, and why it’s good to talk
Victor Fiorillo, A Doll’s House, and the role of the reviewer
A review by Victor Fiorillo of EgoPo Classic Theatre’s A Doll’s House got Phindie writer Julius Ferraro contemplating the role of reviewer. This is part of Phindie‘s…
View More Victor Fiorillo, A Doll’s House, and the role of the reviewer
An Interview with Inquirer critic Merilyn Jackson
Published by The Dance Journal, republished with kind permission. Merilyn Jackson has been writing regularly on dance for The Philadelphia Inquirer since 1996 and prior…
View More An Interview with Inquirer critic Merilyn Jackson
Just one asshole with an opinion: theater critic Mark Cofta on the art of reviewing and observations on Philly’s theater scene
Originally published on the FringeArts blog. Republished with kind permission. “I see 150 to 180 plays a year, and still always regret missing a bunch.”…
View More Just one asshole with an opinion: theater critic Mark Cofta on the art of reviewing and observations on Philly’s theater scene
The Purpose of Criticism: Roger Ebert, Lester Bangs, and Psychotic Reactions
Following his much-discussed piece on Gimmickry in Theater, Michael F. Fisher considers the role of the critic, and how theater criticism in Philadelphia compares to…
View More The Purpose of Criticism: Roger Ebert, Lester Bangs, and Psychotic Reactions
“Reviewing a Play”
Writing a play review, a brief critical account of an actual performance, involves making an evaluation.
View More “Reviewing a Play”
Theater People vs. Theater Critics…The Ultimate Debate
I’ve been a lover of the stage as long as I can remember. Mostly this love has been realized as a patron of local theaters.…
View More Theater People vs. Theater Critics…The Ultimate Debate
Why’s Everyone Such a Critic?
I’ve been a lover of the stage as long as I can remember. Mostly this love has been realized as a patron of local theaters.…
View More Why’s Everyone Such a Critic?
Updike’s guide to reviewing
Submit to whatever spell, weak or strong, is being cast. Better to praise and share than blame and ban. The communion between reviewer and his…
View More Updike’s guide to reviewing