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This 90-minute cabaret featuring of three bitter divorced women and a newspaper pen pal crams heartless bubble gum jingles and cheap laughs into the plot of a confused Lifetime special.
View More TIL DIVORCE DO US PART: THE MUSICAL (Society Hill Playhouse): The annoying ex you never wanted to see
High-energy hilarity fills L’Étage as the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium remounts its 2008 Fringe hit, a trio of one-act parodies by Christopher Durang.
View More A STREETCAR NAMED DURANG (IRC): 60-second review
Vivienne Franzmann’s new play, PESTS, is the first offering of Inis Nua Theatre Company’s 2014/15 reading series
View More PESTS opens Inis Nua’s reading series tonight
Based upon a 2,500-year-old classical Greek play, BIG LOVE tells the story of 50 brides who show up at an Italian mansion, fleeing their 50 cousins/potential husbands.
View More BIG LOVE (Villanova): 60-second review
A thoroughly entertaining, beautifully staged exploration of trust, love, relationships, entanglement, dependency and technology and intimacy.
View More THE (CURIOUS CASE OF THE) WATSON INTELLIGENCE (Azuka): Connecting with audience
Exclusive recording of John Rosenberg’s CANA OF GALILEE, a full-length play only performed once, in a living room in Philadelphia, April 2014.
View More [audio] Exclusive reading of John Rosenberg’s CANA OF GALILEE (Hella Fresh Theater)
Love, betrayal, vengeance, and death are the themes of Federico García Lorca’s Spanish Symbolist tragedy, BLOOD WEDDING.
View More BLOOD WEDDING (PAC/MPiRP): A symbiotic relationship between the arts and education
STICKS AND BONES vents Vietnam era fury against a war that sent an endless stream of young men home damaged or in body bags.
View More [NYC] STICKS AND BONES (The New Group): A revival with a local connection is attracting attention in New York
When artful deceptions permeate an artist’s life, it casts doubt on everything we believe but never really knew.
View More CAUGHT (InterAct): On the nature of art and truth
“We all do things that are sorta good, and things that are sorta not so good.” In RED SPEEDO, each character is capable of doing those things that are sorta not so good.
View More RED SPEEDO (Theatre Exile): A dive into the waters of amorality
A product of the Philadelphia Local Artists for Youthprogram, DREAM HOUSE is is designed to unleash the creativity of audiences young and old alike.
View More Any house is a DREAM HOUSE with some imagination: Philadelphia Local Artists for Youth and Plays & Players prepare a Rainy Day Play
Tennessee Williams’ classic story comes to life on the stage of Act II Playhouse.
View More THE GLASS MENAGERIE (Act II): 60-second review
Michael Fisher concludes his multi-part review experiment of ARCADIA at the Lantern Theater Company. Was it a success?
View More “The Experiment”, conclusion: ARCADIA (Lantern)
Phindie spoke to Damon Bonetti, a founding member of the Philadelphia Artists’ Collective and director of PAC’s latest offering, Frederico Garcia Lorca’s BLOOD WEDDING.
View More PAC’s Damon Bonetti on BLOOD WEDDING: “Peace in a cruel world”
Inspired by her love of animals and her concerns about unsound environmental practices, Rossellini’s well-researched work is both funny and educational.
View More Isabella Rossellini Brings GREEN PORNO to World Cafe Live
CAUGHT marks the first entry into InterAct’s season of all-new plays. What a great start.
View More CAUGHT (InterAct): The truth is just a lie
With a perfect combination of passion, pride, storytelling, and imagination, the Arden Theatre Company’s production of GREAT EXPECTATIONS is a thrilling night of theater.
View More GREAT EXPECTATIONS (Arden): Exceeds all expectations
FringeArts’ monthly Scratch Night is a great place to see inventive performance art in an embryonic form.
View More Scratch Night returns to FringeArts
Want to hear rape jokes, see nudity, and get doused with reality at a “comedy” show? You asked for it.
View More ASKING FOR IT (Simpatico): You asked for it, you got it
Featuring spoofs of American theater luminaries, IRC’s 2008 hit A STREETCAR NAMED DURANG returns this month for a brief seven-show run.
View More IRC’s presents some Durang classics