To balance the traumas of life—from a difficult childhood through a challenging adulthood—a man writes down every brilliant thing, every wish he can think of.
View More EVERY BRILLIANT THING (Arden): Scott Greer in an entertaining, painful, life-enhancing playAuthor: Henrik Eger
International Fringe 2017: A welcome to theater from around the world coming to the Philadelphia Fringe Festival
Welcome to Philadelphia, international Fringe artists.
View More International Fringe 2017: A welcome to theater from around the world coming to the Philadelphia Fringe FestivalI Just Wanted To Be Happy: SUICIDE STORIES, a Fringe preview
How would you feel if your entire life was summed up by a single number? A suicide statistic.
View More I Just Wanted To Be Happy: SUICIDE STORIES, a Fringe previewEven Talking about Suicide Is Difficult: Nine playwrights on collaborative playwriting with Elephant Room Productions
The subject of suicide is so taboo that few playwrights tackle the topic, and even fewer theater companies present a whole evening of plays about suicide.
View More Even Talking about Suicide Is Difficult: Nine playwrights on collaborative playwriting with Elephant Room ProductionsWHITE: James Ijames on PlayPenn and Playwriting
James talked to Phindie about the genesis of WHITE and its development at PlayPenn, a Philadelphia-based organization for the development of new plays.
View More WHITE: James Ijames on PlayPenn and PlaywritingPlaywrights Under Pressure: Part 2 of interview with OSLO playwright J.T. Rogers
“The American theater is chock full of inward looking plays that fester over small, personal family dramas”
View More Playwrights Under Pressure: Part 2 of interview with OSLO playwright J.T. RogersOpening Doors, No Matter What: OSLO playwright J.T. Rogers talks about the evolution of a new world classic, developed at PlayPenn (part 1)
Interview with J.T. Rogers on the journey from PlayPenn to Broadway.
View More Opening Doors, No Matter What: OSLO playwright J.T. Rogers talks about the evolution of a new world classic, developed at PlayPenn (part 1)Beyond PlayPenn: Former conference interns come into their own, part 3
Former PlayPenn interns come into their own as theater professionals.
View More Beyond PlayPenn: Former conference interns come into their own, part 3Under the wing of America’s most promising playwrights: PlayPenn interns speak, part 2
PlayPenn interns describe what its like to work with top playwrights.
View More Under the wing of America’s most promising playwrights: PlayPenn interns speak, part 2Interning PlayPenn, part 1: What theater students do behind the scenes of the playwriting conference
We hear from PlayPenn interns about the daily goings on of the conference.
View More Interning PlayPenn, part 1: What theater students do behind the scenes of the playwriting conferenceWelsh Christmas in Philadelphia: Interview with the cast of Walnut Street Theatre’s A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALES
A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALES: Interview with Aaron Cromie, Scott Greer, Maggie Lakes, Matthew Mastronardi, and Amanda Jill Robinson
View More Welsh Christmas in Philadelphia: Interview with the cast of Walnut Street Theatre’s A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALES“Lauren Feldman is a goddess”: 10 Philadelphia playwrights describe a beloved PlayPenn teacher
Lauren Feldman’s 7-week course for Philadelphia area playwrights had such a profound impact on those she taught.
View More “Lauren Feldman is a goddess”: 10 Philadelphia playwrights describe a beloved PlayPenn teacherSix Questions for Six Directors: John O’Hara’s 12 CHAIRS gets a revamped production
Female-centric theater group ReVamp Collective presents 12 CHAIRS.
View More Six Questions for Six Directors: John O’Hara’s 12 CHAIRS gets a revamped productionWaking up Trump and all sexual molesters through THE CONSEQUENCE OF LOCKER ROOM TALK. An interview with playwright-director Shelli Pentimall Bookler.
Shelli Pentimall Bookler grabs the … political moment with a script-in-hand production.
View More Waking up Trump and all sexual molesters through THE CONSEQUENCE OF LOCKER ROOM TALK. An interview with playwright-director Shelli Pentimall Bookler.Gaslighting Done Right: Interview with the cast of Hedgerow Theatre’s reinvented ANGEL STREET
Considering a trimmed, contemporized, and feminized version of a classic British drama
View More Gaslighting Done Right: Interview with the cast of Hedgerow Theatre’s reinvented ANGEL STREETTalking EMPEROR JONES: Interview with the director and cast of O’Neill’s tragedy at the South Camden Theatre Company
Eugene O’Neill’s THE EMPEROR JONES kicks off the South Camden Theatre Company’s Fall season
View More Talking EMPEROR JONES: Interview with the director and cast of O’Neill’s tragedy at the South Camden Theatre CompanyLeading the Blind: Interview with the director and cast of Irish Heritage Theatre’s MOLLY SWEENEY
We presented five questions to IRT’s Peggy Mecham, the director, and the three cast members: Kirsten Quinn as Molly Sweeney, the blind woman; Ethan Lipkin as the husband; and Michael P. Toner as the physician.
View More Leading the Blind: Interview with the director and cast of Irish Heritage Theatre’s MOLLY SWEENEYInternational Fringe 2016: A welcome to theater from around the world, including refugees
The International Philly Fringe: A welcome to 28 countries
View More International Fringe 2016: A welcome to theater from around the world, including refugeesA Little Bird Who Fucks Everything Up: Interview with Haygen Brice Walker, the new enfant terrible of Philadelphia
Henrik Eger talks to Fringe playwright Haygen Brice Walker of BIRDIE’S PIT STOP (AND THE TRIBE OF QUEERS WHO FUCKED EVERYTHING UP).
View More A Little Bird Who Fucks Everything Up: Interview with Haygen Brice Walker, the new enfant terrible of Philadelphia“Casting call” for the chairs in Ionesco’s THE CHAIRS: Interview with IRC artistic director Tina Brock
The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium brings Eugene Ionesco’s hilarious, controversial, absurdist classic THE CHAIRS to the 2016 Fringe Festival. We talk to director Tina Brock about the show.
View More “Casting call” for the chairs in Ionesco’s THE CHAIRS: Interview with IRC artistic director Tina Brock