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HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL (Vulcan Lyric): A cult classic whose time may have passed
A revitalized opera company offering musical performances in Philly in the summer is a good thing. But maybe some things just aren’t funny anymore, like teen suicide, gay jokes, and trying to blow up a school.
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“Nobody cares what a playwright looks like”: GayFest! playwright F.J. Hartland talks MOTHER TONGUE and more (part 1)
FJ Hartland’s MOTHER TONGUE, about a different kind of love triangle, will be one of the highlight productions of this year’s GayFest!
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How to Fringe? On a Bike.
It’s more dope than Lance Armstrong. And ballsier too. The Phindie Fringe Bike Tour is the best way to enjoy the 2015 Fringe Festival.
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GayFest! Goes Beyond the Gay Archetype: Interview with Sean Chandler and David Leeper, co-authors of AT THE FLASH, part 1
Couple David Leeper and Sean Chandler created AT THE FLASH, the flagship production of GayFest! 2015.
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ON GOLDEN POND (BCP): 60-second review
Bucks County Playhouse presents Ernest Thompson’s ON GOLDEN POND. Norman (Keir Dullea) and Ethel (Mia Dillon) Thayer are spending another summer on Golden Pond in…
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Shhhhh! C’mere. Have you heard about the Night Market?
“There are so few secrets left in life, I wanted to make something where you can’t put it in a search bar and get it.”
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Theater’s Second Sex: Caridad Svich on playwriting as a woman, as an act of political resistance, and for the first Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Festival
When Caridad Svich decided to be a playwright, she read every playwright in the public library. Only one of them was a woman. Svich talks to Phindie ahead of the PWTF.
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HENRY V (PA Shakespeare): The king is but a man
While HENRY V contains two of Shakespeare’s most stirring speeches, smaller, less rhetorical moments are the more engrossing in Matt Pfeiffer’s staging for Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
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Home Run! Shakespeare at a Ball Park: Interview with Rosemary Hay and Rudy Caporaso of REV Theatre Company, part 2
REV Theatre Co brings THE COMEDY OF ERRORS to Columbus Square Park in South Philly.
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MERCURY FUR (Brainspunk): The hills are alive with the sound of post-apocalyptic horror
Dystopia can be a good place to demonstrate the kinder side of human nature. Philip Ridley’s play is shocking, violent, and uncomfortable to watch, but also weirdly heartwarming.
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Building New Audiences for Classical Theater: Interview with Rosemary Hay and Rudy Caporaso, artistic co-directors of REV Theatre Company
REV Theatre Company presents Shakespeare and other classical works in innovative ways. We talk to their co-directors.
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Philly, WTF? Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Festival takes on under-representation in theater
We’re asking, Philly, WTF? It’s 2015 and we are still underrepresented on stage, backstage, and in positions of leadership.
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Ant Hampton talks audience, space, and the experience of the extra ahead of Fringe Festival show, THE EXTRA PEOPLE
“It’s almost like this isn’t really a ‘show,’ more some kind of process.”… Ant Hampton talks THE EXTRA PEOPLE
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STELLA AND LOU (People’s Light): A middle-aged rom-com with South Philly attitude
No one captures the timbre of hometown Philadelphia better than playwright Bruce Graham, and nowhere is that more evident than in this regional premiere.
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Deb Miller’s 15 Top Picks for the 2015 Fringe Festival
Top Philly theater writer Deb Miller previews the best of the 2015 Philadelphia Fringe Festival.
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LULU’S GOLDEN SHOES (FLASHPOINT): A deft treatise on cruelty
This is a play that is constantly surprising, entrancing, and always a step ahead of expectations.
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DIVINE/INTERVENTION (sbgProductions & Faux Real Entertainment): Reflections on the dual life of “the drag queen of the century”
The dual life of Glenn Milstead, a performer who achieved international fame in John Waters’ cult-classic films as the drag queen Divine, is the subject of a compelling new play.
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How to Get Accepted into PlayPenn: Interview with founder Paul Meshejian, Part 3
How do you get your play accepted to PlayPenn? Founder Paul Meshejian gives the low down to the selection process.
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THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (Delaware Shakespeare): The people’s choice!
Shakespeare’s comedic battle of the sexes was the audience choice for this year’s outdoor summer production by the Delaware Shakespeare Festival.
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