What a fucking year that was. With performance arts closed, there wasn’t a lot for Phindie to write about this year. We had our lowest readership of any year since we started, but here were our most-read new pieces of 2020:
- Remembering Mercutios and Tybalts by Kathryn Osenlund
- A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE (Walnut Street): 60-second review by Josh Herren
- I Am Sorry You Lost Your Monopoly Money by John Rosenberg
- CHESS: THE MUSICAL (11th Hour): Cold War on the board by Toby Zinman
- Risks can lead to financial loss: Interview with Bernard Havard on A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE at the Walnut Street Theatre by Henrik Eger
- FOOL FOR LOVE (EgoPo): Secrets, raw passion, and danger by Toby Zinman
- A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE (Walnut Street): Dropping a stream of bon mots from the sofa by Kathryn Osenlund
- Remembering Hamlets by Kathryn Osenlund
- MY GENERAL TUBMAN (Arden): Ancestors calling by Toby Zinman
- KING LEAR (Bristol Riverside): Mommy issues by Josh Herren
And these were the most read articles from years’ past:
- Sex on Stage in FEST (FringeArts) and KEIN APPLAUS FÜR SCHEISSE (American Realness [NYC]) by Julius Ferraro
- Dinner for One: The greatest cult film you’ve never heard of by Henrik Eger
- When the singing stops on Christmas Eve in bombed-out Europe: Sitting at my computer in Philadelphia, looking back by Henrik Eger
- A Brief History of Early Publishing in Philadelphia by Christopher Munden
- Literary Legacy: A History of Philadelphia Writers by Christopher Munden
- Code of Practice for Theater Critics
- How Big Is That Theater? Seating capacities of Philadelphia theaters by Christopher Munden
- THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR (IRC): Corruption! by Julius Ferraro
- How universal is Romeo and Juliet? Challenging hetronormative assumptions by Rebecca Gluck
- “Don’t ask me what happened. It’s best not to know!”: A DYBBUK, or Between two worlds by Henrik Eger
Happy days in 2021.