The Accountant fuses physical theater, humor, and illusion to create a “dreamscape of memory and loss.”
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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.
Taking Care: Nell Bang-Jensen on Pig Iron’s new show
“I was thinking about what happens in domestic spaces that is often hidden from plain sight but could benefit from being brought into the open”
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You can be Le Super Grand
Anyone can be a part of the 2018 Fringe Festival’s largest show
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All Things Must Pass: Orbiter 3 members consider their finale
In the end, the plays you produce are greater than the plays you don’t
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PASSAGE (Wilma): Love and death in Country X
The way to get an audience to ask itself profound questions about a work is not by asking the audience profound questions about the work.
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Poetry and Film: Alexandra Naughton combines literary and cinematic talents at a film premiere
Author and actor Alexandra Naughton combines her two loves April 29 with a party for the premier of a new movie, CTRL ALT DEL.
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GRACE & GRANDEUR (Pennsylvania Ballet): Ballet, in different eras
Pennsylvania Ballet’s fifth program of the current season is a historically intriguing.
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HUMAN RITES (InterAct): I say tomato, you say genital mutilation
HUMAN RITES succeeds as a vehicle to tackle such hot-topic themes as appropriation and intersectionality.
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Back to Prison: Playwright Kash Goins on his reprised play V to X at Arden Theatre
Kash Goins talks to Phindie about the new production of his acclaimed prison drama and the Arden’s coming season.
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Oscar-Winning Movies Don’t Come From Plays Anymore
No published or produced play has been the source for a Best Adapted Screenplay award since 1989.
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LOVE, LIES AND TAXIDERMY (Inis Nua): To Wales with love
Perhaps it is Harris’s adept characterization of economic pains and societal pressures which sets light romantic comedy in pleasant relief.
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MR BURNS (Villanova): The future in three acts
What would 21st-century American culture look like if all we knew about it was told generations after an apocalypse
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WAITING FOR GODOT (Quintessence): Really absurd
Quintessence Theatre Group’s WAITING FOR GODOT strikes a balance between humor and pathos, between realism and ridiculousness.
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A DOLL’S HOUSE (Arden): Ibsen for our times
A timelessly relevant damnation of our human falsehoods is also an au courant commentary on sexism.
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Frankenstein’s Author: Jennifer Summerfield on her new show MARY SHELLEY
This month, actor Summerfield showcases another side of her talents with MARY SHELLEY, a solo performance she created for rare book museum the Rosenbach.
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2018 Theater Preview: Curio Theatre Company
The gem of West Philadelphia, Curio Theatre Company continues to impress with its literary adaptations and productions of classic and contemporary theater.
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2018 Theater Preview: FringeArts
The company that brings us the Philadelphia Fringe Festival keeps the Fringe coming all year long with presentations by inventive local and visiting artists.
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2018 Theater Preview: InterAct Theatre Company
Interact Theatre Company continues to produce provocative contemporary plays exploring relevant political issues.
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Best of 2017: Phindie articles you loved in the last year
The most-read Phindie articles of 2017
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THE BROWNINGS (Orbiter 3): Let me count the f%&*ing ways
In a heartfelt moment, Elizabeth Barrett Browning tells her poet-husband, “I’m going to dip your cock in laudanum and fuck you til i’m high”
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