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
Tribe of Fools Gets Naughty with THE REVENGE OF HORNY RUDOLPH: A Holiday Burlesque Preview with Terry Brennan
Tribe of Fools’ popular holiday burlesque is back this year for one night only with its fifth ensemble-devised installment, THE REVENGE OF HORNY RUDOLPH.
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Opens this week, runs through 2028: THE SINCERITY PROJECT (Team Sunshine), a 24-year experiment
Can theater be sincere? What does it mean to reveal personal secrets onstage? Is truth a form of performance? Find out.
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KISS ME, KATE (Renaissance Music Theatre): Tom, Dick, or Harry would all call this a flop
KISS ME, KATE should bring comedy, heart, big production numbers, and a classic big finale. But Renaissance Music Theatre’s production is a few weeks of…
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Dominicana Dreamin’: Erlina Ortiz on Latin American theater and her new play, MORIR SONYANDO
Power Street Theatre was founded in 2012 by two Latina Temple alums to showcase the talents of Latin American theater artists. It’s biggest production to…
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Philadelphia Theater Calendar: December 2014
January | February | March | April | May | June July | August | September | October | November | December Great Expectations. By Charles Dickens, adapted by Gale Childs Daly. October 23-December 14, 2014. Arden Theatre Company, 40 N. Second Street. ardentheatre.org. Mary Poppins.…
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ARTHUR AND THE TALE OF THE RED DRAGON: A MUSICAL PANTO (People’s Light): Coming of age in the Middle Ages
The family friendly holiday panto takes a wacky look at the growing pains of the future King Arthur as he faces the challenges of life, learning, and leadership.
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QED (Lantern) No doctorate in theoretical physics is required to enjoy this production
But you don’t have to be an egghead to enjoy this play. It’s a great show for non-physicists, a category that includes a whole lot of us.
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QED (Lantern): A glowing tribute to a brilliant man
Peter DeLaurier reprises his role as physicist Richard Feynman in Lantern Theater Company’s remount of its 2006 hit.
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FOXCATCHER (dir. Bennett Miller): Movie review
Republished by kind permission from NealsPaper.com. The characters in “Foxcatcher” are laconic in general and, when they do talk, speak in short, clipped phrases that…
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Debra Miller: An interview with Philadelphia’s most prolific theater reviewer
Debra Miller sees a LOT of theater. Indeed, she is the most prolific theater writer in town. Henrik Eger talked to Deb about her background and writing.
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Get to know your favorite Phindie editor
Christopher Munden is the publisher and editor of Phindie. In these pages you’ve probably read what he thinks about local theater and arts. But what’s his deal?…
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THE (CURIOUS CASE OF THE) WATSON INTELLIGENCE (Azuka): Do we all need a Watson in our lives
In a time-bending script that requires each of the actors to play multiple roles across the last century or so, “Watson”, played in all his guises by Griffin Stanton-Ameisen, is the force that ties them all together.
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MARY POPPINS (Walnut): Flying between lightness and gravitas
In doing MARY POPPINS, a director has to decide between approaches: light and fantastical like the movie or darker like the book.
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Fall Series (BalletX): Darkness on the edge of ballet
BalletX’s Fall Series features three disparate dances united by evocative lighting schemes and the genre-stretching beauty of movement which characterizes the company.
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Making Dreams Happen: The closing of the Shubin Theatre
The much-loved little Shubin Theatre is closing. Rich Rubin shares his memories and thoughts.
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Political choreographer: Interview with Rami Be’er, artistic director of Israel’s Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company
No dance company on earth has a history as moving as the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company. KCDC’s story begins with Yehudit Arnon, an 18-year-old Jewish…
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JUG-BABY: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY (Transmissions Theatre): A jar of surprises
There is magic and wonder in the world, and not the cheap kind from childhood fairy tales, but the hard earned kind from adults who speak in their own true voices and dare to tell us how we’re all put together.
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THE MATTER OF FRANK SCHAEFER (Curio): Go and do likewise
Curio personalizes a national news story: THE MATTER OF FRANK SCHAEFER, a Methodist priest defrocked for officiating his son’s same sex wedding.
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Dance-noir edge in Jorma Elo’s BalletX premiere
Finnish choreographer Jorma Elo has been shuttling back and forth to Philly this fall to make ‘Gran Partita’, premierin in BalletXs fall program
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GREEN PORNO (Isabella Rossellini): Sex and celebrity in the service of a serious message
It’s no secret that sex and celebrity sell, so what better use for those ever-reliable marketing commodities than in the service of a serious message?…
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