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Author: Christopher Munden

Your faithful correspondent and publisher Christopher Munden has written and edited for many publications, websites, and cultural institutions. He was an editor/publisher of the Philly Fiction book series, collections of short stories written by local writers and set in Philadelphia. He's also a soccer coach, a pretty good skier, and an erstwhile songwriter.
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Fringe Festival Interviews Theater

Bruce Walsh: An interview with the playwright/chef serving up Capote, kegs, and eggs

Christopher Munden August 29, 2013 4 Comments

Bruce Walsh—creator of last year’s Fringe home‐hit, Chomsky vs. Buckley, 1969—has sought out fellow playwrights, Chris Davis and Douglas Williams, to stage a collaborative work…

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Fringe Festival Previews

Fringe Preview 2: Northwest Philly Fringe

Christopher Munden August 28, 2013 1 Comment

The Fringe Festival has expanded greatly from its Old City roots, spreading from a compact neighborhood to all corners of the city and beyond. So…

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2014 Fringe Festival Philadelphia
Fringe Festival Previews

Fringe Preview 1: Suburban Fringe

Christopher Munden August 28, 2013 1 Comment

The Fringe Festival has expanded greatly from its Old City roots, spreading from a compact neighborhood to all corners of the city and beyond. So…

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Jennifer Summerfield and Peter Zielinski as Nora and Torvald in the site-specific Victorian setting of Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion's A DOLL'S HOUSE. Photo by Kyle Cassidy.
60-Second Review Museums Reviews Theater

A DOLL’S HOUSE (Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion): 60-second review

Christopher Munden August 19, 2013 1 Comment

It’s hard to imagine a better set design for Henrik Ibsen’s devastating feminist classic than the living room of the Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion Victorian House…

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The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre’s THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN features Walter DeShields, Chris Anthony, Maryruth Stine, Leeanna Rubin, and Sarah Knittel (Photo credit: Plate 3 Photography)
Reviews Theater

TWO NOBLE KINSMEN (Philly Shakes): Shakespeare as entertainment

Christopher Munden August 16, 2013 1 Comment

Aaron Cromie, the director of Philadelphia Shakespeare Company’s academy performance of TWO NOBLE KINSMEN, is one of this city’s best directors. His puppet/live actor version…

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Features Theater

Best of 2012/13: About the Philadelphia Theater Critics Awards

Christopher Munden August 12, 2013 No Comments

About the 2012/13 Phindie Awards.

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The Importance of Being Earnest Mauckingbird review photo
60-Second Review Reviews Theater

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (Mauckingbird): 60-second review

Christopher Munden August 10, 2013 2 Comments

Gender roles play an essential part in much classic literature. How many complex pre-1900 plots would be instantly resolved if a woman could just marry…

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Photo Credit: Kate Raines of PLATE 3 Photography with Trice Baldwin and Charlie DelMarcelle
60-Second Review Reviews Theater

MACBETH (Commonwealth): 60-second review

Christopher Munden August 8, 2013 No Comments

MACBETH is a violent play, a feature emphasized by the contemporary military garb and extended fight choreography in the worthwhile production by Commonwealth Classic Theatre Company.…

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Features Theater

2012/13 Critics’ Awards

Christopher Munden August 8, 2013 4 Comments

Phindie asked every theater writer in Philadelphia to send a list of top five choices in twelve categories for work produced in or near the…

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Chris Davis The Violence of the Lambs
60-Second Review Reviews Theater

THE VIOLENCE OF THE LAMBS (OR THE ANIMAL VS. HUMAN WAR) (Chris Davis): 60-second review

Christopher Munden June 24, 2013 4 Comments

As the established Philadelphia companies enter their long off-season, the SoLow Festival is providing a welcome dose of idiosyncratic theater at some unusual venues around…

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Some Other Kind of Person review photo InterAct Theatre Company
Reviews Theater

SOME OTHER KIND OF PERSON (InterAct)

Christopher Munden June 9, 2013 No Comments

The title of Eric Pfeffinger’s SOME OTHER KIND OF PERSON, now in production by Interact Theatre Company, refers to a purposefully misquoted line of Aristotle,…

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photo by Daniel Kontz
60-Second Review Reviews Theater

GLASS: SHATTERED (Renegade): 60-second review

Christopher Munden June 9, 2013 2 Comments

Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie is described as a “memory play”: its plot an extended flashback, its theatrical pretense laid bare. GLASS: SHATTERED, Michael Durkin’s…

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New City Stage Company American Sligo review photo
Reviews Theater

AMERICAN SLIGO (New City): Wrestling with dysfunction

Christopher Munden June 2, 2013 1 Comment

The American dysfunctional family was the theme of New City Stage Company’s successful 2012/13 season, and it would be hard to find a play which…

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60-Second Review Reviews Theater

VENUS IN FUR (PTC): 60-second review

Christopher Munden May 30, 2013 1 Comment

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch is known today primarily for the word derived from his name: masochism, and for his scandalous 1870 novel VENUS IN FUR, the…

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photo by Mark Garvin
Reviews Theater

HEROES (Lantern): Quieter guns of August

Christopher Munden May 24, 2013 No Comments

It’s 1959. Two veterans of the Great War sit in silence. HENRI: I love the month of August GUSTAVE: I knew it couldn’t last, the…

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Simpatico Theatre Lysistrata Project
Reviews Theater

THE LYSISTRATA PROJECT (Simpatico): A momentary delight

Christopher Munden May 20, 2013 No Comments

Ancient Greek historian Thucydides introduced his majestic History of the Peloponnesian War by claiming it was “not a piece of writing designed to meet the…

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Azuka Theatre Failure a love story review photo
Reviews Theater

Azuka Charms with FAILURE: A LOVE STORY

Christopher Munden May 13, 2013 1 Comment

In 1900 the city of Chicago reversed the flow of the Chicago River so that it discharged into the Mississippi River instead of Lake Michigan.…

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photo by Kyle Cassidy
60-Second Review Reviews Theater

THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (Curio): 60-second review

Christopher Munden May 12, 2013 No Comments

“Rare moths, wives pretending to be sisters,” deadly moors, escaped killers, and a legendary hellhound: the plot points of Arthur Conan Doyle’s THE HOUND OF…

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The Misanthrope, Quintessence, review photo
Reviews Theater

THE MISANTHROPE (Quintessence): What’s not to like?

Christopher Munden May 10, 2013 No Comments

I hope one day to see (and understand) a Moliere play in the original French, though as I’m not doing anything about that desire except…

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Dance Reviews

JAPANAMERICA WONDERWAVE (Team Sunshine): Post-tsunami, pre-understanding

Christopher Munden May 2, 2013 1 Comment

I came to theater through literature: words brought to life onstage. But seeing any small amount of theater, you quickly realize that that much is…

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