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Shakespeare’s popular romantic comedy is given a new look and a quick pace in Mechanical Theater’s delightful production, performed at Society Hill’s historic Powel House.
View More MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Mechanical): A rapid-fire current view of Shakespeare’s “merry war”
Director John Schultz talks about his immersive staging of Shakespeare’s Macbeth: to a blindfolded audience.
View More Shakespeare’s Darkest Play, Literally: TILL BIRNAM WOOD… returns to the Fringe
Emilie Krause talks about her Fringe play, her work as an actor and devisor, and how she’s probably not a real-ife femme fatale.
View More Nowhere Woman: Femme fatale Emilie Krause on 901 NOWHERE STREET
In part two of our interview with Ozzie Jones, the director talks about his decision to cast an ALL-black OTHELLO.
View More An ALL-Black OTHELLO: Director Ozzie Jones talks about his “gloriously liberating” casting for Theatre in the X, part 2
Henrik Eger speaks to director Ozzie Jones about Theatre in the X and presenting Shakespeare in an area some call “the hood”.
View More Bringing OTHELLO to the Hood: Interview with director Ozzie Jones, part 1
Take a few awkward adolescents, put them in a competition moderated by awkward adults, toss some words (or some formulation of one) at them, and…
View More THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE (Bucks County Playhouse): Spelling good times
Warning: Don’t see this erotic-thriller-parody if you take life too seriously! Also: Don’t take life to seriously.
View More THE SECRETARIES (Quince): An erotic-hilarious farce—not suited for an embarrassed young man?
Philadelphia Artists Collective has produced some of the finest works of the last few Fringe Festivals. Director Dan Hodge tells us about this year’s offering.
View More PAC Presents THE CAPTIVE: FringeArts Interview with Dan Hodge
Local theater writers vote for their favorites in twelve categories!
View More 2014/15 Critics’ Awards: The best in Philadelphia theater
The creators/performers of THE LIGHT PRINCESS discuss the development of their adaptation of the 19th-century Scottish fairytale before its workshop production in the Fringe.
View More Fringe Preview: THE LIGHT PRINCESS (Tony Lawton with Ugly Stepsister)
Sam Henderson is keeping the location and the subject of his Fringe show secret. In this interview, Phindie tries to squeeze out a little more information.
View More 1 Actor, 1 Audience Member, 64 Shows, 10 Billion Possibilities: Sam Henderson’s 100 takes over the Fringe Festival
Leeper uses the story of five disparate characters at one gay bar to trace five decades of LGBT history.
View More AT THE FLASH (Quince/GayFest!): No wigs, no props, no problem
This review of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors was written in form of an Open Letter to a teenager from Jamaica.
View More THE COMEDY OF ERRORS (REV): I wasn’t brought up on Shakespeare; an epistolary review
Part 2 of our interview with GayFest! playwright FJ Hartland.
View More GayFest! Reveals a Different Kind of “Love Triangle”: Interview with MOTHER TONGUE playwright F.J. Hartland, part 2
Successful young director-playwright Michael Perlman talks to Phindie ahead of his new play in GayFest! 2015.
View More The limits of forgiveness: Interview with FROM WHITE PLAINS playwright Michael Perlman
Commonwealth Classic Theatre presents a world-premiere production of Paul Parente’s meaningful tragicomedy on the absurdities and horrors of war, inspired by the events and characters from Homer’s Iliad.
View More RAGE OF ACHILLES (CCTC): The absurdity and tragedy of war
In a room where everyone else is whispering, ASYLUM screams at the top of its lungs: “Listen.”
View More ASYLUM (Cheril N. Clarke): A shout loud enough to hear
This month, Tongue & Groove Spontaneous Theater is revisiting their popular improv show, WHO, in which the audience is asked to honestly answer the simple question “Who Are You?”
View More Tongue & Groove asks “Who Are You? Who who, who who?”
GayFest! shows feature gay characters, but they are no more “gay plays” than plays featuring straight characters are “straight plays”.
View More GayFest! 2015: Preview and schedule
Part two of our interview with GayFest! cowriters David Leeper and Sean Chandler.
View More Cruising through History with Rainbow Sails at GayFest!: Interview with Sean Chandler and David Leeper, co-authors of AT THE FLASH, part 2