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
GHOST (Media Theatre): Animating a corpse
Director Jesse Cline doesn’t let GHOST’s musical or lyrical deficiencies stand in his way of making involving theater.
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SWAN LAKE (PA Ballet): An enduring classic
If you want to see the traditional ballet form challenged but simultaneously upheld then Christopher Wheeldon’s adaptation of the Tchaikovsky classic is just the ticket.
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ARIADNE AUF NAXOS (Curtis Opera Theatre/Opera Philadelphia): Clowns and opera collide
ARIADNE AUF NAXOS predates Stephen Sondheim’s “Sunday in the Park with George” and David Hirson’s “La Bête” by decades, but the situation its plot depicts brings both of those later 20th century works to mind.
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No Elephants in This Circus: Lauren Rile Smith talks about Tangle Movement Arts’ circus-theater cabaret TELL IT SLANT
Lauren Rile Smith talks about circus, feminism, and whether or not there will be large mammals at Tangle Movement Arts TELL IT SLANT.
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UNNECESSARY FARCE (Act II): 60-second review
A stakeout goes awry with hilarious consequences in UNNECESSARY FARCE at Act II Playhouse.
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ROCCO (ICKamsterdam/FringeArts): Choreographic gloves come off
Philly dance fans were ringside for the fights last weekend for ROCCO, an exhibition of choreographic pugilism
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There’s No Business Like…: Tempesta di Mare presents 17th-century theater music
When baroque music fell out of fashion centuries ago, the original music for 17th century theater stopped accompanying even much-revived plays.
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THE FAREWELL PARTY launches the 2015 Israeli Film Festival
Netanyahu isn’t Israel’s only visitor to the United States this month. Philadelphia’s annual Israeli Film Festival opens its 19th season this Saturday with a dark comedy featuring many of Israel’s top actors.
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[book review] FOLLIES OF GOD (James Grissom): Validating Tennessee Williams
“The greatness of . . . people lies in how they got from their squalor—real or perceived—and became artists.”
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Art Made in China at PII Gallery
Considering every Ming vase and iPhone is made there, Chinese imports are curiously negatively stereotyped in the United States. Old City’s PII Gallery counters this with its new exhibition of emerging Chinese artist Jinming Huang,
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BLACK SWAN (Dance Iquail): Tutus as Afros just aren’t enough!
Dance Iquail used the tutu, which is an iconic costume in classical ballet, placed it atop the heads of the dancers and shifted its representation from a symbol of white ballet to a symbol of black pride.
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Diary of a Playwright: Doug Williams tracks his thoughts as he prepares for his first professional production
Douglas Williams has partnered with Phindie to share the playwright’s perspective as a new play is developed, rehearsed, and produced
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BrainSpunk Theater launches its new home with THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW LIVE!
Sharpen your stilettos! BrainSpunk Theater introduces its new performance space in Kensington with THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW LIVE!, March 5-28, 2015.
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Drexel students find their “Philly Groove” with unfinished songs from the 1970s
Students from Drexel University’s music industry program are breathing life into music tracks that have been silent for more than 40 years.
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The Powel House: Utilizing Historic PhilaLandmarks as venues for the arts
Celebrating its 250th anniversary in 2015, the Powel House is hosting an array of special events in the fine and performing arts throughout the year.
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Art in the Family: An inside preview of UNCLE ANDY (Warhola Films), a family biopic of Andy Warhol
Members of Andy Warhol’s family are preserving their personal recollections in a new film project, UNCLE ANDY: THE ANDY WARHOL FAMILY FILM.
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MICKLE STREET (Walnut): There is more to life than theatrics
Philadelphia playwright Michael Whistler’s latest play, Mickle Street, shows Oscar Wilde, 27, searching for an identity and seeking out advice from older poet Walt Whitman.
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Irish Eyes Still Smiling: LAFFERTY’S WAKE back at Society Hill Playhouse 17 years later
In 1997, Inquirer theater critic Douglas J. Keating attended the world premiere of LAFFERTY’S WAKE, an interactive Irish-style play conceived by Susan Turlish and her cast of local actors.
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Philadelphia Theater Calendar: March 2015
January | February | March | April | May | June July | August | September | October | November | December Private Lives. By Noël Coward. January 13–March 1, 2015. Walnut Street Theatre, 825 Walnut Street. walnutstreettheatre.org. Under the Skin. By Michael Hollinger. January 15-March…
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A “real” American isn’t just a white American: Jeanne Sakata and the Journey of Gordon Hirabayashi. Part 2 of the interview with the playwright of HOLD THESE TRUTHS (Plays & Players
Jeanne Sakata gives another interview on her moving play HOLD THESE TRUTHS, about Gordon Hirabayashi’s battle with the Supreme Cour to stop the injustices of Japanese American internment camps.
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