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
Get your 2015 Fringe Guide at a Special Launch Party
Red 40 and DJ Jersey Dan give a taste of the Fringe Festival at the Guide Launch Party this First Friday.
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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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UNARMED: Realizing Race and Racism at Fringe Festival 2015
“Before we even get to move, the bodies just existing together in space is getting at American politics”
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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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Art and Taste of Shabbat: Selections from the collection of Richard Rosenfield at the Old City Jewish Art Center
For forty years, Richard Rosenfeld built up a private collection of art work as he worked as an art dealer. Now, the collection form the center of an exhibition at OCJAC
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Hot Spontaneous Performers: FringeArts Interview with David Zambrano on SOUL PROJECT
Republished by kind permission from the FringeArts blog. “Since the beginning of my career as a choreographer, I have always selected a group of international…
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Sketching A WINTER’S TALE (SCP)
Thursday’s performance of A WINTER’S TALE by Shakespeare in Clark Park took place in the rain venue of Drexel’s Mandell Theater, but that didn’t stop…
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THE HOUR OF ALL THINGS (Missing Bolts/PWTF): Reflections on political arousal
“What can I do within this world?” ~ Nic, THE HOUR OF ALL THINGS by Caridad Svich In a riveting, nearly odic, 45 minute solo…
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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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COME TOGETHER FESTIVAL: Dance review, part 2
Part 2 of Lew Whittington’s look at the COME TOGETHER FESTIVAL
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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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COME TOGETHER FESTIVAL: Dance review, part 1
The collective energy of the deep field of Philly dance and visiting artists created a palpable festival atmosphere.
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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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