Chris compares the Edinburgh and Philly Fringe festivals and shares his thoughts on waking up to the scent of Napalm.
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Category: Features
Sex Public and Private: Artist lovers bring STORY OF MY EYE to the Fringe
This 60-minute spectacle of trangressive theater sounds like a seriously good Fringe time. Zach Trebino and Jenni Messner tell more.
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Yoel “Samuel Beckett” Wulfhart on CAT-A-STROPHE
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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Ionesco Anticipation: IRC’s Tina Brock on another buzz-worthy Fringe show, and her favorite chair
Tina Brock talks about Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium’s Fringe show Eugene Ionesco’s THE CHAIRS.
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Building Bridges with Love and Theater: Sarah Gafgen organizes a concert for victims of violence
Philadelphian actor, singer, and director produces a charity concert in support of three organizations that work diligently on overcoming violence.
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Spelling Bee: Interview with Chloe Sierka
Feeling altogether out-of-the-loop with regards to this mysterious sleeper gem and Avenue Theater Company I caught up with choreographer and assistant director Chloe Sierka
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Male, Male, Female: Interview with GayFest! playwright David Kimple
Interview with the author of MMF.
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Sailing into Success at GayFest! Interview with HARBOR playwright Chad Beguelin
Talking to the playwright for GayFest! 2016’s Mainstage production.
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Filling the World with Love and Theater: Interview with Harry Dietzler of Upper Darby Summer Stage
Summer Stage, one of the largest draws for young theater artists on the East coast: Interview with founding executive and artistic director Harry Dietzler
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There’s No Place Like Home: Revolutionary performances by Automatic Arts
The best showcase for new performing arts in Philadelphia gets Revolutionary with an evening of beer and performance at Cliveden
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NICE WORK on a Summer Stage
The Upper Darby Summer Stage just opened its 2016 season with an entertaining Gershwin farce.
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GIANTESS: Interview with Genne Murphy, successful PlayPenn dramatist
Our series of interviews with prominent PlayPenn playwrights continues…
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Know KING JOHN: Helen Mirren and other stars promote Philly production of little-known Shakespeare play
Revolution Shakespeare has put together a truly all-star line-up for its promotional video for KING JOHN, this year’s fall Shakespeare production in Hawthorne Park.
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Summer Club: Swinging on the Shore
This weekend, while the cheese-steak crowd is piling into Wildwood, sophisticated Philadelphians go on their annual pilgrimage to Cape May to experience the latest program of The Summer Club.
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Philly’s Kinda Cool episode 5: Ten citywides, harassment, and which is cooler “black or gay”?
This week’s Philly’s Kinda Cool considers Melania Trump’s plagiarism, harassment, and whether it’s cooler to be black or gay.
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Food for Thought: Southwark Queen Village Community Garden
After four decades the Southwark Queen Village community garden continues to thrive.
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Famous Philadelphians: John Wanamaker (1838–1922)
John Wanamaker is remembered as the father of the American department store and modern commercial and retail advertising.
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Development, Culture, and Community in the Forest of Arden: REV Theatre’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM at Columbus Square Park
REV invited us to chase characters through the Forest of Arden against a backdrop of South Philadelphia’s urban skyline.
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Un-Conventional Theater: Performances around the Democratic National Convention
The Democratic National Convention comes to Philadelphia July 25-28, 2016, with all its trappings of political theater: Hillary inspiring the masses (?), Bernie joining her…
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Comedic Self-flagellation and Rodent-skin Jackets: Interview with CHINCHILLA COATS creator Chris Davis
Chris takes his deranged soliloquy about a drunken, under-sexed, 34-year-old man-child to the Edinburgh Fringe.
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