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Acclaimed local playwright Bruce Graham returns toTheatre Exile with Any Given Monday (now onstage at Plays & Players Theater), a sport-themed world premiere geared to ride the success of…
View More Bruce Graham Scores Again with Theatre Exile’s Any Given Monday at Plays & Players Theater
“Great art is dangerous, that’s why there’s so little of it.” —Bellini, in Terrence McNally’s Golden Age Philly theater hacks were spoiled for choice last…
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A classic work of comic literature, a joyous reworking by one of the best clowns in modern theater, an imaginative staging by a top-class Philadelphia…
View More No Deceit: Lantern Theater’s Scapin is a Treat
Irish playwright Conor McPherson has been called the “finest dramatist of his generation” (London Telegraph) with works that are “as near to perfection as a play can come”…
View More Conor McPherson’s The Weir: Subtlety and the Supernatural at the Curio Theatre
InterAct Theatre Company has established itself as a daring production company, eager to take on hot-button social issues and support the careers of emerging Philadelphia…
View More InterAct’s Little Lamb Now Onstage at the Adrienne Theatre
It’s a shame to begin the blog this way but I think it has to be said: Little Lamb is a stinker. On stage through…
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I’ve never acted, except for a brief cameo in a high school musical on which I was working back stage. I have never studied acting,…
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“Yeah, Heisenberg, do the math.”
View More COPENHAGEN (national tour):Yeah, Heisenberg, do the math