Our favorite DIY theatermaker returns to Philadelphia with a new play that probably won’t suck
Casting actors you don’t know is like getting a dog from the animal shelter. Shit is cool for a while but then they flip the fuck out and bite you or run away.
Presenting stronger new dramas by overcoming “premieritis” The “one-and-done” premiere problem and filling more theaters through “rolling WORLD premieres” 
Dance in Sketch: FROM THE FEMININE GAZE (Anne-Marie Mulgrew and Dancers Co) Review by Chuck Schultz; illustrations by Yumna Tolaimate 
Missionary Position: Interview with BOOK OF MORMON star Liam Tobin Broadway veteran Liam Tobin will lead the cast of Book of Mormon as Elder Price when the show returns to Philly this month. 
SUMMER SERIES 2019 (BalletX): BalletX brings The Little Prince to life This contemporary ballet of a classic children’s book is immediately understandable for children, but also poignant and thought-provoking fo... 
An Aerialist Brazilian: Danila Bim discusses her work with Cirque du Soleil’s VOLTA Danila Bim’s job is literally hair-raising! Support Phindie operations
“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). more…
