Mechanical Theater’s Halloween-season offering, MASQUE OF POE, honors its mission of creating theatrical projects designed for Philadelphia’s unique historical settings.
View More MASQUE OF POE (Mechanical Theater): A hauntingly powerful evening of storytelling
Every staged version of Hamlet is edited. Posterity left us two “authentic” written versions of William Shakespeare’s masterpiece, as well as a poorly transcribed but…
View More [podcast] Cutting Hamlet: Director Dan Hodge on adapting Shakespeare’s masterpiece for the stage
On November 8, 2014, join Phindie for Bike Tour 2.0, which will take viewers to experience the Near Northeast’s idiosyncratic, cutting-edge arts!
View More PHINDIE BIKE TOUR 2.0: Kensington Arts
Henrik Eger talked to the founder of Dance Affiliates about the inner workings of the international dance scene in these more economically strapped times.
View More “IT ONLY GETS HARDER”: Randy Swartz on the dance scene in economically strapped times
Part 2 of Michael Fisher’s multi-part, multi-week consideration of ARCADIA at the Lantern.
View More “The Experiment”, part 2: ARCADIA (Lantern)
RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN is an exploration of contemporary feminist questions and a story in which those theories are put to a practical test.
View More RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN (Wilma): Feminism, access, and meaning on the stage
The wacky parents of THE ADDAMS FAMILY at the Media Theatre share the joys and difficulties of juggling two lead roles in their lives.
View More “My busy, wacky, wonderful life”: Parents on stage and off stage, THE ADDAMS FAMILY (Media Theatre)
Local-born playwright Jessica Dickey considers the humor and heartache of mustering the courage to fight in an insightful comedy about three Civil War re-enactors.
View More ROW AFTER ROW (People’s Light): Finding the courage to fight and to heal
Cities and thrones and powers/ Stand in time’s eye,/ Almost as long as flowers,/ Which daily die
View More DETROIT (PTC): Where the American Dream goes to die
Scottish playwright Douglas Maxwell accomplishes the unexpected in his one-act obscenity-laden comedy A RESPECTABLE WIDOW TAKES TO VULGARITY
View More A RESPECTABLE WIDOW TAKES TO VULGARITY (Tiny Dynamite and Azuka Theatre Company): A wildly heartwarming week 3 of A Play, A Pie and A Pint
THE SYRINGA TREE, Pamela Glen’s intimate story of the love between two families—one white, one black—in apartheid-era South Africa is usually presented as a one-woman show. Spanning…
View More [video] Previewing THE SYRINGA TREE at Theatre Horizon: Coming of age in apartheid
Now in its 22nd year, this theatrical production ranks among the top haunted-house attractions in the US.
View More TERROR BEHIND THE WALLS (Eastern State Penitentiary): Philadelphia’s top halloween attraction
Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj’s poignant play about nine children who integrate Little Rock’s Central High School creates a lasting impression.
View More LITTLE ROCK (Passage Theatre): Integrating history into theater
R. Eric Thomas’s updated version of his 2012 hit provides a seamless synthesis of stand-up comedy and storytelling with the narrative structure of a one-act rom-com
View More ALWAYS THE BRIDESMAID (R. Eric Thomas): 60-second review
Part One of Michael Fisher’s multi-part critical experiment, reviewing the Lantern Theater Company’s production of ARCADIA several times over its run.
View More “The Experiment”, part 1: ARCADIA (Lantern)
Eiko will introduce and explain the philosophy of Delicious Movement as a quiet, slow-paced, creative practice available to everyone
View More Can Movement Be Delicious? Eiko Otake in search of deliciousness in movement and life
A NIGHT WITH LADY G features three one-act plays by Lady Augusta Gregory, a key force in the Irish Literary Revival and co-founder of Dublin’s Abbey Theatre
View More A NIGHT WITH LADY G (Irish Heritage Theatre): A Trilogy of Proofs of the Irish Gift of Gab!
Philadelphia audiences are still buzzing about Dan Hodge’s performance of Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece. Henrik Eger interviews him about the play.
View More One of the oldest taboos in history: Interview with Dan Hodge on The Rape of Lucrece
A group of Philadelphia playwrights have come together to form a producing collective, Orbiter 3, to showcase their work.
View More Orbiter 3: A new producing playwrights collective to launch in Philadelphia
CIPHERS displays an ultra-modern set, an unflinchingly poised cast, and all the classic elements of an intriguing spy thriller,
View More CIPHERS (Inis Nua): An ultra-modern spy thriller