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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.
Reviews Theater

TWO WALKENS (Miniature Refrigerator Operator): Finding Christopher Walken, finding us

Christopher Munden December 7, 2016 No Comments

Meehan and Collins use convincing Christopher Walken impressions in an intriguing look at how the fantasies of popular culture provide escape from our lives while they shape them.

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Meeting the TWO WALKENS: Susanne Collins and Kevin Meehan on their new work

Christopher Munden November 28, 2016 No Comments

For their debut production, Susanne Collins and Kevin Meehan looked to one of the most iconic actors of contemporary cinema: Christopher Walken.

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AN ILIAD (Lantern): Homer sweet homer

Christopher Munden November 22, 2016 No Comments

AN ILIAD brings Homer’s characters and their epic struggle to life using just a sole narrator and musical accompaniment.

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A Philadelphian in AN AMERICAN IN PARIS: Colby Lindeman returns to his hometown on a Broadway tour

Christopher Munden November 15, 2016 No Comments

AN AMERICAN IN PARIS’s touring cast includes Philly local Colby Q. Lindeman, a proud graduate of Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts

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Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby: Katherine Perry returns with SEX TALK election special

Christopher Munden November 4, 2016 No Comments

SEX TALK once again turns musical theater tropes into sing-song gropes that will touch you in places only your partner—or favorite presidential candidate—should

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DELIRIUM (EgoPo): 60-second review

Christopher Munden November 2, 2016 No Comments

At 800+ pages, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov would not seem ideally suited to theatrical interpretation.

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Previews Theater

Making Philadelphia Theater Great Again: Ken Brady’s THE LETTER H

Christopher Munden October 31, 2016 No Comments

What will future theatermakers and scriptwriters make of Donald Trump and his campaign. Ken Brady gets a head start.

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And the winners are… 2016 Barrymore Awards

Christopher Munden October 25, 2016 No Comments

For the second year in a row, Theatre Exile led the pack with five Barrymore Awards for its production of The Invisible Hand

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Features Theater

Live Tweeting the Barrymores

Christopher Munden October 24, 2016 No Comments

Tonight is the ceremony for the annual Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theater, and Phindie will be there, holding a cell phone and live tweeting about the gathering and the winners.

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Features Music

Keen to Feed: Favorite tunes from Red 40 & the Last Groovement

Christopher Munden October 21, 2016 No Comments

Artists from Philly’s favorite clown-funk band pick favorite songs from their new album and the world of music

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Dinner Theater, Recooked

Christopher Munden October 12, 2016 No Comments

Irreverent local performers present two strange and sumptuous evenings of independent theater and comedy alongside food and cocktails

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GROUNDED (InterAct): The killing screens

Christopher Munden October 9, 2016 No Comments

GROUNDED is a tale for our times: war is most hellish when it resembles office life, reality is most profound rendered in pixels.

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THE BIRDS (Curio): Terror takes flight

Christopher Munden October 8, 2016 No Comments

This adaptation by master Irish playwright Conor McPherson finds its horror in the claustrophobic relationships between its four characters

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Thomas Choinacky Says There’s No Hope

Christopher Munden October 5, 2016 No Comments

The founder of SoLow Fest talks about his latest work, HOPELESSNESS, performed one night only October 8.

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Philly’s Kinda Cool episode 2.1: We back!

Christopher Munden October 3, 2016 No Comments

Would Sebastian would rather sleep with Hillary or Donald, what the hell his Fringe show was about, and what’s the worst way to cook an omelette?

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Drone Warfare Hits Home: Kittson O’Neill on InterAct’s GROUNDED

Christopher Munden October 3, 2016 No Comments

Kittson O’Neill plays a fighter pilot and expectant mother living in a desert suburb in the U.S. Southwest, controlling weapons which kill people in a distant foreign desert.

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HOW WE GOT ON (Azuka): A rapper’s delight straight outta the suburbs

Christopher Munden October 2, 2016 No Comments

Idris Goodwin’s play displays the same playful humor, poetic intelligence, and human insights as the early hip hop music it salutes.

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RIZZO (PTC): A larger-than-life life onstage

Christopher Munden October 1, 2016 No Comments

An entertaining work about a compelling character, RIZZO displays pitfalls common to biographical drama.

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KING JOHN (Revolution Shakespeare): 2016 Fringe review 88

Christopher Munden September 25, 2016 No Comments

You won’t get many opportunities to see KING JOHN; you’re unlikely to see one as well-rendered as Revolution Shakespeare’s.

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SCARLETT LETTERS (Ross & Diggs): 2016 Fringe review 81

Christopher Munden September 21, 2016 No Comments

Playwright Patrick Ross, who gives us a history of sexism, quotes and references to literature and mythology, and plenty of Hawthorne in a smartly woven one-woman show

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