With credits spanning the globe, director Lisa Steven’s latest project brings her to Philadelphia. Lisa was brought in by Walnut Street Theatre’s president and producing…
View More Five O’Clock Somewhere: Interview with Escape to Margaritaville’s Lisa Stevens
Philadelphia resident Erica Durham is keeping busy on the national tour of Into The Woods.
View More A Fairytale Tour: Interview with Into the Wood’s Erica Durham
Aryn Bohannon plays each of the six wives of Henry VIII in the National Tour of SIX, in Philadelphia March 21-April 9
View More Divorced, beheaded, died, survived: Interview with Aryn Bohannon of SIX
As Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater prepares to return to Philly, Jeroboam Bozeman took some time to talk with writer, Debra Danese. The two reconnected…
View More The return of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Interview with Jeroboam Bozeman
Sara Gallo juggles many roles in her life onstage and off. The actor, teacher, and mentor is a standby for four roles in the touring…
View More Standing By: Interview with 1776 actor Sara Gallo
Jersey Girl Stefanie Londino is coming to Philly with the cast of Annie.
View More Little Girls Everywhere: Stefanie Londino in ANNIE
Philadelphia Ballet will be performing Cinderella at the Academy of Music, for 10
performances only, October 13-23, 2022.
Alaina Anderson is loving her time on the national tour of Dear Evan Hansen.
View More A Letter, a Lie, and the Role of a Lifetime: Alaina Anderson in Dear Evan Hansen
Cirque du Soleil is known for pushing creative and physical limits. In the company’s first ice show, Cirque expands those boundaries with both acrobats and skaters.
View More Acro on Ice: Cirque du Soleil’s Robert Tannion talks about Crystal
Lanford Wilson’s quiet one-act play about an unlikely love between a leftist Jewish immigrant and the daughter of a Missouri garment factory dynasty won the…
View More TALLEY’S FOLLY by Lanford Wilson (1980): Chosen by Committee episode 54
Actress Mary Martello is back on the Walnut stage in the current production of Blithe Spirit.
View More Calling on Spirits: Mary Martello on her psychic role as Madame Arcarti in BLITHE SPIRIT
Sam Shepard’s dark look at the American family won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, so it gets the Chosen by Committee treatment on this episode of the much-loved podcast.
View More BURIED CHILD by Sam Shepard (1979): Chosen by Committee episode 53
French native Thierry Michel staged Humankind on the Philadelphia Ballet, running at the Academy of Music May 12-15, 2022.
View More Philadelphia Ballet’s HUMANKIND: Interview with stager Thierry Michel
Broadways’ Tony Award winning musical Hairspray makes its return to Philadelphia this month. Two of the tours cast members- Emmanuelle Zeesman (Prudy Pingleton/Gym Teacher/Matron) and Helene…
View More Can’t Stop the Beat: Catching up with HAIRSPRAY’s Emmanuelle Zeesman and Helene Britany
Dancer Nicole Sabella is returning to Philly this month with Mark Morris Dance Group (MMDG), celebrating the Beatles’ album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band with Morris’ Pepperland. Sabella, who is a graduate of UArts, joined the company in 2015. She looks back at her time in Philly and credits it for some of her best memories.
View More Dancing in Pepperland: An interview with Nicole Sabella
As PHILADANCO! prepares for their upcoming performance at the Kimmel Center, Kim Bears-Bailey looks back on her illustrious career with the company. Bears-Bailey joined the company in 1981 and rose through the ranks to her current position as Artistic Director. She shares with Phindie the creation of PHILADANCO! RE and highlights of the past 41 years.
View More RE!flecting on a career with PHILADANCO!: Interview with Kim Bears-Bailey
Two elderly people play cards and talk about their life in Donald L. Coburn’s quietly moving play The Gin Game, winner of the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
View More THE GIN GAME by Donald L. Coburn (1978): Chosen by Committee Episode 52
Charles Askegard has spent his career perfecting the work of George Balanchine – first as a dancer with NYCB and now as the Philadelphia Ballet’s rehearsal director. The company will be presenting Bold Brilliant Balanchine as part of its commitment to honoring and celebrating its rich Balanchine roots. Askegard spoke about the upcoming program and his time with the Philadelphia Ballet.
View More Philadelphia Ballet’s Charles Askegard on the Brilliance of Balanchine
In a post-quarantine world, we often don’t know what to expect, and the same is true of Sarah Knittel and Bradley Kristian Wrenn’s upcoming experience/performance titled MAKE A F@CKIN’ SHOW YOU POS. Sarah Knittel, one half of the director/performer duo, received our smoke signals and exited her cave long enough to discuss her work and the show with Phindie.
View More Emerging from the Dark: Sarah Knittel on MAKE A F@CKIN’ SHOW YOU POS
The winner of the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Drama gets the Chosen by Committee treatment this week. Michael Cristofer’s The Shadow Box got the nod…
View More The Shadow Box by actor Michael Cristofer (1977): Chosen by Committee Episode 51