Theatre Exile’s newest offering left Josh Herren cold. He is trying to figure out why.
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News and reviews about Philadelphia’s Theatre Exile.
Playing God: Jacqueline Goldfinger talks about her newest play
Jackie Goldfinger on building a tower to god.
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ON THE EXHALE (Theatre Exile): A one-woman show handles a loaded issue
Martin Zimmerman’s visceral, thoroughly modern, elegant one-woman show inspired by the tragic 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting.
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On Target: Matt Pfeiffer talks about directing ON THE EXHALE
Director Matt Pfeiffer talks about directing a one-actor play about gun violence
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Philadelphia theater through the eyes of J. Cooper Robb, Part 2: 2004
Revisiting Philly theater history through the eyes of one of its finest critics.
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What is Theatre Week? What to See? And other insights from Jenna Kuerzi
Jenna Kuerzi is in almost every Philly Theatre Week show. She tells us all about it.
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COMPLETENESS (Theatre Exile): Algorithms and geek romance
Seduction by examples of computational intractability
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Theater of the Extreme: Amanda Schoonover looks back on PHAEDRA’S LOVE
Henrik Eger talks to actor Amanda Schoonover about Sarah Kane and her career.
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SING THE BODY ELECTRIC (Theatre Exile): Electricity sparks and glows brightly, then sputters
Is there more still left in the playwright’s head that didn’t make it to the stage?
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REALLY (Theatre Exile): Camera obscura
Discomfort is the name of the game here, but to what purpose?
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IDEATION (Theatre Exile): How to succeed in business
The sterile corporate-speak of modern business pervades Aaron Loeb’s darkly comic contemporary play
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2017 Barrymore Awards nominations
On August 21, Theatre Philadelphia announced nominees for the 2017 Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre. Established companies led the day.
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Theater in Sketch: TOMMY AND ME (Theatre Exile)
Looking at the past, TOMMY AND ME carries us into the psychological interaction between dreams and reality.
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BUZZER (Theatre Exile): We wouldn’t come here if we didn’t live here
A provocative and dismaying story, conveyed through complex characters rather than through statistics and theories
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LOST GIRLS (Theatre Exile): We are all capable of redemption
Yes, that was me sobbing on opening night of LOST GIRLS.
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GUARDS AT THE TAJ (Theatre Exile): Beauty and brutality join hands
The debate central to Rajiv Joseph’s absorbing new play isn’t just talk: when you lose this one, you really lose.
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Barrymore Awards Nominations
Industry insiders vote on their favorite shows and artists in their community from the preceding theater season. The resulting awards recognize the best that Philly stages have to offer, and also musicals.
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TOMMY & ME (Theatre Exile): Theatrical touchdown
A lovely and elegiac look at how a sportswriter developed his love for football and friendship with an Eagles quarterback.
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TOMMY AND ME (Theatre Exile): There am I in the midst of them
TOMMY AND ME does a lot to make itself likable. Didinger’s love for McDonald is evident and provides a herculean effort towards making the play work. It’s incredibly tempting to allow yourself to be swept away in a sea of sincerity.
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The Power of the Invisible Hand: Interview with Anthony Mustafa Adair as Dar, a Pakistani captor, at Theatre Exile
Theatre Exile’s production of THE INVISIBLE HAND features an all-star creative team. We interviewed them.
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