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Author: Thom Nickels

Thom Nickels is a Philadelphia author/journalist, the author of twelve books, including:Out in History (2005), Philadelphia Architecture (2005), Spore (2010), Legendary Locals of Center City Philadelphia (2014), and Literary Philadelphia: A History of Prose & Poetry in the City of Brotherly Love (2015). Nickels was awarded the Philadelphia AIA Lewis Mumford Award for Architectural Journalism in 2005. He has written for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Passport Magazine (New York), Philadelphia Magazine, The New Oxford Review,The American Catholic Studies Journal, Broad Street Review and the Philadelphia Free Press. He is a Huff Post contributor, a theater critic and columnist for ICON Magazine and The Philadelphia Free Press.. His book, Philadelphia Mansions: Stories and Characters Behind the Walls
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Remembering Stonewall: Gay Liberation 50 years on

Thom Nickels July 8, 2019 No Comments

The goal of the movement should be the erasure of that hostility so that the movement itself is no longer necessary.

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Literature Reviews Theater

What Peaches and What Penumbras! A musical play concludes Whitman at 200

Thom Nickels June 21, 2019 No Comments

The last big Whitman at 200 event was Oscar Visits Walt, a musical play about the meeting of two gay poets, Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman.

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Reviews

HYPE MAN: A BREAK-BEAT PLAY (InterAct): Compromise and dialog can work

Thom Nickels February 9, 2019 No Comments

Idris Goodwin’s play shows how compromise and dialog work better than insults and labels

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Reviews Theater

PASSING STRANGE (Wilma): Youth and rebellion

Thom Nickels March 2, 2018 No Comments

Youth is the time of our lives when the more adventurous among us follow French poet Arthur Rimbaud’s dictum that “everything we are taught is false.”

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Features Theater

Talking ‘Bout A Revolution: Thoughts on seeing LES MIZ at the Academy

Thom Nickels January 24, 2018 No Comments

Thom Nickels contemplates revolution after seeing LES MIZ at the Academy

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Reviews

THIS IS THE WEEK THAT IS (1812 Productions): New year same targets

Thom Nickels December 31, 2017 3 Comments

Thom Nickels asks why the same people always get satirized.

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Reviews Theater

CAT-A-STROPHE (Fail Better): Looking for a new carpet

Thom Nickels August 28, 2016 No Comments

Albert Camus once said, “Although the absurd teaches us nothing, it is an ultimate form of progress.”

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Features Interviews Theater

Yoel “Samuel Beckett” Wulfhart on CAT-A-STROPHE

Thom Nickels August 22, 2016 No Comments

I’m sitting with playwright Samuel Beckett in a townhouse in Fishtown. I have a lot of questions, the first being how anybody can call themselves Samuel Beckett when the “real” Samuel Beckett died in 1989

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Reviews Theater

EXIT STRATEGY (PTC): Saving the bell

Thom Nickels February 16, 2016 2 Comments

We get to experience the empty pathos around a building demolition in which the faculty come together ostensibly to mourn their old school but instead wind up mourning the people they once were.

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