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Features

Ready for Anything: Rachel Britton Hart on Swinging into Some Like It Hot

Debra Danese May 13, 2025 No Comments

Rachel Britton Hart is showcasing versatility and poise as a swing in the national tour of Some Like It Hot, a high-energy reimagining of the…

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Dance Features

Dancing through the Seasons: Allegra Vianello of Malandain Ballet Biarritz

Debra Danese May 2, 2025 1 Comment

Allegra Vianello, a longtime dancer with Malandain Ballet Biarritz, takes center stage in the company’s acclaimed production of The Four Seasons. The performances will mark…

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Features Theater

Home No More: Hedgerow’s last company member must leave Hedgerow House

Jessica Foley September 13, 2024 43 Comments

74-year-old Susie Wefel is leaving Hedgerow House after 45 years. It’s not a choice she made herself.

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Features Theater

Here Comes the RAIN: Beatles tribute comes to Merriam Theater

Debra Danese October 19, 2021 No Comments

The Broadway Philadelphia series is gearing up for the return of RAIN- A Tribute to the Beatles. The theatrical production takes audiences on a musical…

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Features Interviews Theater

Now Serving: Hedgerow resumes in-person indoor theater with THE WEIR

Christopher Munden October 8, 2021 No Comments

Marcie Bramucci took on the role of executive director at Hedgerow Theater at an interesting time. For three generations, members of the Reed/Kelsey family had…

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Dance Features Interviews

Back on Stage: Christine Cox talks about BalletX’s return this week at the Mann Center

Debra Danese June 22, 2021 No Comments

The limited-run engagement will showcase the work of Hope Boykin, Matthew Neenan, and Dwight Rhoden. 

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Features

Come to PAPA: Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists celebrates local Pan-Asian Art with a 10-day virtual festival

Smalley Bogg June 8, 2021 No Comments

With 34 events, 105 artists, and 21 cities, Come to PAPA celebrates the ingenuity and necessity of Philadelphia’s Pan-Asian performing arts community.

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Features Film Interviews Theater

Living in A DOLL’S HOUSE: An Ibsen adaption for these times

Christopher Munden March 19, 2021 No Comments

Wife and husband team Jennifer Summerfield and Kyle Cassidy are releasing their quarantine-themed adaptation of A Doll’s House to coincide with the one-year anniversary of Philly’s stay-at-home order,

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Features

Henrik Eger’s Memorial Service

Christopher Munden January 19, 2021 2 Comments

A virtual memorial service held on Sunday, January 17, 2021, for Dr. Henrik Eger, who died January 3, 2021, at the age of 79.

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Features Interviews

Phindie editor Christopher Munden goes Into the Absurd

Smalley Bogg January 15, 2021 No Comments

IRC producing artistic director Tina Brock interviews Christopher Munden about Kensington Soccer Club, Chosen by Committee, his work as a theater critic and editor, and his hungry cat Walter cat.

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Henrik Eger
Features

Henrik Eger, 1941–2021

Christopher Munden January 11, 2021 10 Comments

The performing arts lost a vocal supporter and the world lost a vibrant presence last weekend. Editor-at-Large Henrik Eger died on Sunday, January 3, 2021, after being admitted to hospital for a heart condition several days earlier. He was 79.

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Features

Phindie’s Most Read Articles of 2020

Christopher Munden December 31, 2020 No Comments

What a fucking year that was.

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Features Theater

Looking Back: I Am My Own Wife at the Wilma and Theatre Horizon

Kathryn Osenlund October 5, 2020 No Comments

Kathryn Osenlund remembers two productions of I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright. 

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Chekhov lizard brain
Features Fringe Festival Theater

Looking Back: Chekhov Lizardbrain & Red Eye to Havre de Grace

Kathryn Osenlund October 1, 2020 No Comments

Kathryn Osenlund remembers two productions from Fringe Festivals past

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Features

10 Picks for the 2020 Philadelphia Fringe Festival

Christopher Munden September 10, 2020 2 Comments

The Fringe Festival kinda crept up on us this year, but here are a few shows we’re looking out for this festival.

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Features

Words words words

Christopher Munden August 13, 2020 No Comments

In this time of physical isolation, a writer should be able to reach out with language. Our prose should build bridges.

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Features Theater

Art in the Time of COVID: Two new projects from Ninth Planet

Smalley Bogg August 2, 2020 No Comments

Can the performing arts survive a pandemic? Ninth Planet’s answer is a resounding yes.

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Features

I Am Sorry You Lost Your Monopoly Money

John Rosenberg May 8, 2020 16 Comments

What are you holding onto? Things are not going to return to how they were before.

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Features

Arts Funding: Three wishes for post-pandemic philanthropy

Deborah Crocker April 15, 2020 2 Comments

As the days of this pandemic roll on, I am spending time helping organizations craft messages about COVID 19 and how the virus is impacting their programming.

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Damon Bonetti as Mercutio in The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre’s 2008 production of ROMEO AND JULIET (Photo credit: John Bansemer)
Features Theater

Remembering Mercutios and Tybalts

Kathryn Osenlund April 9, 2020 2 Comments

In recent days of home-captivity my mind has wandered to Romeo & Juliet performances, new and old. But I’m more interested in Mercutio and Tybalt than the star-crossed lovers.

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