The role of Rafiki is one that Gugwana Dlamini is quite familiar with.
View More The Wonderful World of Rafiki: Interview with Gugwana Dlamini of Disney’s The Lion KingAuthor: Christopher Munden
A Music Video to Make You HAPPY
Friend of Phindie Josh McIlvain and his band Casual Fantastic released a new video for their song “Happy (You Make Me)” from recently released album…
View More A Music Video to Make You HAPPYWINTER SERIES 2023 (BalletX): Past and present
BalletX’s 2023 Winter Series sees the company reaching back into their past and looking to the future, with new or reconsidered works by three contemporary…
View More WINTER SERIES 2023 (BalletX): Past and presentFORWARD MOTION (Philadelphia Ballet): An excellent showcase of skill
The intimate Perelman Theater in the Kimmel Cultural Campus provides an ideal setting for Philadelphia Ballet’s impressive new production, Forward Motion, three world premieres by…
View More FORWARD MOTION (Philadelphia Ballet): An excellent showcase of skillA Play at the Intersection of Law and Brutality: CORPUS opens this week
How many bodies make a body of law? Corpus is a play at the intersection of legal interpretation and human experience.
View More A Play at the Intersection of Law and Brutality: CORPUS opens this weekFAIRVIEW (Wilma): 60-second review
Pulitzer winners aren’t always great theatrical works, but they are often very revealing about the times in which they won
View More FAIRVIEW (Wilma): 60-second reviewWinning a Pulitzer, Directing a Pulitzer-winner
2022 Pulitzer Prize winner James Ijames directs the 2019 Pulitzer winner Fairview at the Wilma.
View More Winning a Pulitzer, Directing a Pulitzer-winnerEmerging from the Dark: Sarah Knittel on MAKE A F@CKIN’ SHOW YOU POS
In a post-quarantine world, we often don’t know what to expect, and the same is true of Sarah Knittel and Bradley Kristian Wrenn’s upcoming experience/performance titled MAKE A F@CKIN’ SHOW YOU POS. Sarah Knittel, one half of the director/performer duo, received our smoke signals and exited her cave long enough to discuss her work and the show with Phindie.
View More Emerging from the Dark: Sarah Knittel on MAKE A F@CKIN’ SHOW YOU POSRich and Resonating: Neill Hartley on ’NIGHT, MOTHER from Isis Productions
Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Marsha Norman’s two-woman play ’night, Mother is a tragedy on an intimate, rather than epic, scale. Taking place over a single night, it looks at a widowed mother and her divorced daughter, who is epileptic, depressed, and at the end of her rope. Philadelphia audiences can catch Norman’s award-winner from March 4 to March 27, 2022, in a presentation by Isis Productions starring Kirsten Quinn and Renee Richman-Weisband. Phindie spoke to director Neill Hartley about what makes this such a fitting play for our times.
View More Rich and Resonating: Neill Hartley on ’NIGHT, MOTHER from Isis ProductionsTheater’s Fiercest Female: New company launches with MEDEA
Humble Materials, a new theater company in residence at Philly PACK, will produce an original adaptation of MEDEA, opening February 25. “Medea is one of…
View More Theater’s Fiercest Female: New company launches with MEDEANEW WORKS FOR A NEW WORLD (Philadelphia Ballet): An evocative and uplifting program by three impressive choreographers
It’s a new world with Philadelphia Ballet. Vaccine checks and face masks, a new name (is there any state with less state pride than Pennsylvania?),…
View More NEW WORKS FOR A NEW WORLD (Philadelphia Ballet): An evocative and uplifting program by three impressive choreographersNow Serving: Hedgerow resumes in-person indoor theater with THE WEIR
Marcie Bramucci took on the role of executive director at Hedgerow Theater at an interesting time. For three generations, members of the Reed/Kelsey family had…
View More Now Serving: Hedgerow resumes in-person indoor theater with THE WEIRMake a RENDEVOUS IN BANGKOK: World premiere play premieres this Sunday
Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was the most influential American Catholic author of the twentieth century. His autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, sold over one million copies…
View More Make a RENDEVOUS IN BANGKOK: World premiere play premieres this SundayBALDWIN AND BUCKLEY AT CAMBRIDGE (Elevator Repair Service): 2021 Fringe review
Like many people, I’m only now returning to in-person shows after 18 months finding other means of distraction. In a typical example, I went down…
View More BALDWIN AND BUCKLEY AT CAMBRIDGE (Elevator Repair Service): 2021 Fringe reviewPlaying “Girl Games”: WOLFTHICKET draws on playground fun for joyful dance piece
Why do we dance? Lily Kind proposes an answer
View More Playing “Girl Games”: WOLFTHICKET draws on playground fun for joyful dance pieceKensington-Style Shakespeare: SCP presents a community interpretation of Pericles
Shakespeare in Clark Park uses Pericles as the launching point for two community-created interpretations in different Philadelphia parks.
View More Kensington-Style Shakespeare: SCP presents a community interpretation of PericlesIrina Varina Knows What You Did Last Summer
In 2020, filmmaker and theater creator Irina Varina had a plan to make a film called I Know What You Did in the Summer of…
View More Irina Varina Knows What You Did Last SummerReligious Cults in Philadelphia: Interview with author Thom Nickels
Religious cults have marked every society throughout history, and Philadelphia has seen its share of peculiar groups. The city’s streets have seen such charismatic figures…
View More Religious Cults in Philadelphia: Interview with author Thom NickelsLiving in A DOLL’S HOUSE: An Ibsen adaption for these times
Wife and husband team Jennifer Summerfield and Kyle Cassidy are releasing their quarantine-themed adaptation of A Doll’s House to coincide with the one-year anniversary of Philly’s stay-at-home order,
View More Living in A DOLL’S HOUSE: An Ibsen adaption for these timesLive dance begins its return with Dream Chapters
As warm weather and herd immunity approach, a new dance-theater work heralds a safe return to live performance.
View More Live dance begins its return with Dream Chapters