Why Deaf Theater is a Form of Resistance
This film follows Daymond Sands, a Deaf theatre program director, preparing his first original showcase, highlighting the cast’s heartfelt effort to bring Deaf perspectives center stage
Director Allen Radway coordinates an intricate but unpretentious array of parts into a coherent and appealing whole.
View More WATERSHIP DOWN (Simpatico/ Drexel MPiRP): A hop along a classic of children’s literatureA dramatic, funny, and sympathetic portrayal of the infamous lovers and their crime spree during the Great Depression is set to music with a southern twang.
View More BONNIE & CLYDE (Eagle): The passions and hardships of folk-hero outlawsIf you don’t think every play is about sex, you shouldn’t be making theater.
View More Is It Always About Sex? Director Kittson O’Neill on the sexual politics of THE ROVERThe four short pieces showcase the versatility of one of contemporary dance’s hottest companies.
View More BODYTRAFFIC (Dance Affiliates): Rising-star of LA contemporary dance scene showcases versatile talentIn the wake of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, Shakespeare is summoned to take on a play commission for the Crown.
View More EQUIVOCATION (Arden): They made him an offer he can’t refuseA future history play, evocative of Shakespeare, imagines political intrigue, public crises, and personal dilemmas within Britain and the royal family following Prince Charles’s ascension to the throne.
View More [NYC] KING CHARLES III (Stuart Thompson, Sonia Friedman Productions, and Almeida Theatre): A savvy foray into future historyPhiladelphia is in for a musical treat: an Italian cantata based on original writings of Hildegard.
View More From Assisi to Philadelphia: U.S. premiere of Italian cantata celebrating the extraordinary life of Hildegard von BingenNo golf interest? No problem. This show has tongue-in-cheek humor, love, competition, and the danger of the unexpected.
View More FOX ON THE FAIRWAY (Act II): Camaraderie of a clubAnna Teresa De Keersmaeker and Boris Charmatz create a powerful structure, physically mapping time and space.
View More PARTITA 2 (Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker/FringeArts):Flamenco tablaos, which gained popularity in the 18th and 19th centuries, can be compared to today’s jazz clubs or poetry cafes.
View More TABLAO PHILLY (Pasión y Arte): Andalusia in Philadelphia2015 Barrymore Awards recipients by award category
View More And the Winners Are… 2015 Barrymore Award winnersA timely retelling of Margaret Atwood’s classic dystopian novel.
View More THE HANDMAID’S TALE (Curio): One woman’s poignant and personal storyA polish director and a polish actor project a new image of the composer by playing his two piano concertos with an orchestra and an actor playing the piano part.
View More CHOPIN WITHOUT PIANO (CENTRALA / Fringearts): A story of a revolutionary musicianExcitement, surprising winners, and a brand new award: Barrymore director Steve Pacek tells us whats in store at this years ceremony.
View More Directing the Barrymores: Steve Pacek on putting together the award ceremonyA collection of six short one-act comedies address the existentialist dilemma and pose the ubiquitous question, “What if?”
View More ALL IN THE TIMING (IRC): Six fast and funny existentialist shortsArtist Aaron Krolikowski provides first-hand accounts of events. Not in words, but in sketch.
View More Sketching Theater: RIZZO (Theatre Exile)Invited into a residence on Juniper Street, we are told to explore whichever way we like. We find 7 dynamically different tales from 5 playwrights.
View More BEHIND CLOSED DOORS (Speakeasy 932): A triumph of the theatrical imaginationThis not your usual resurrection of the Dracula story of seducing young women to join him in the realm of the undead.
View More DRACULA (Hedgerow): Raising the stakesA new site-specific re-envisioning of Schnitzler’s 19th-century play brings post-modern import to his now-historic examination of socio-sexual mores.
View More LA RONDE (Brenna Geffers): Moving around and switching around SchnitzlerAn original and inventive adaptation of Poe interweaves stories by the Master of the Macabre within the period rooms of Historic Strawberry Mansion.
View More THE MADNESS OF POE (Mechanical): A spellbinding production for the Halloween season