Join the Battle: Team Sunshine & Immersive Arts Involvement
On their website, Team Sunshine Performance Corporation calls themselves “an unstoppable force for good.” Among other things, they love play fighting and projects that sound insane. In that vein is their current collaboration with Shakespeare in Clark Park, HENRY IV: YOUR PRINCE AND MINE.
View More Join the Battle: Team Sunshine & Immersive Arts InvolvementPhoto Essay: Kyle Cassidy captures DANCING AT LUGHNASA (Curio Theatre)
Photographer Kyle Cassidy is a Philadelphia treasure. He has been documenting American culture since the 1990s, photographing goths, punks, cutters, politicians, metalheads, dominatrices, scholars, and…
View More Photo Essay: Kyle Cassidy captures DANCING AT LUGHNASA (Curio Theatre)Life Between the Bones: The Mütter Museum presents its first-ever dance performance
The Mütter Museum, with its macabre glass cases of organs and bones, makes for an unlikely venue for a dance performance. However, this week only, choreographer Jae Hoon Lim takes on the challenge with his new work and master’s thesis, Life Between.
View More Life Between the Bones: The Mütter Museum presents its first-ever dance performanceJULIUS CAESAR (Lantern): Political persuasion in feudal Japan
If William Shakespeare was alive today he’d be a …. well, he’d probably be a poet and playwright, but he’d also make a damn good political speechwriter. The crux of his JULIUS CAESAR, now in an accessible production by Lantern Theater Company, comes in a speech following the title character’s assassination.
View More JULIUS CAESAR (Lantern): Political persuasion in feudal JapanSeven dancers. 200 Surveys. 4-inch Leather Boots. SORRY, I’M JUST HUMAN.
Sebastian’s dance-music-theater creations draw from each art without being confined to easy definitions. This Saturday’s Sorry, I’m Just Human marks a culmination of two years of choreographic, musical, and theatrical experimentation.
View More Seven dancers. 200 Surveys. 4-inch Leather Boots. SORRY, I’M JUST HUMAN.On the Universality of Shakespeare: Roman History through a Shoji Screen in the Lantern’s THE TRAGEDY OF JULIUS CAESAR
Director Charles McMahon, founding artistic director of the Lantern Theater Company, asserts that all of Shakespeare’s plays, whenever or wherever they’re set, are in fact observations about contemporary England. By shifting the locales to places outside of his homeland.
View More On the Universality of Shakespeare: Roman History through a Shoji Screen in the Lantern’s THE TRAGEDY OF JULIUS CAESARTROUSERS (Inis Nua): The Proof Is in the Pants
In keeping with their native tradition of storytelling, Irish playwrights Paul Meade and David Parnell weave an engaging tale of two estranged men who reconnect…
View More TROUSERS (Inis Nua): The Proof Is in the PantsONDINE (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): At sea with emotional hyperbole
Talented and celebrated director Aaron Cromie teams up with the idiosyncratic Idopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium to tackle French impressionist Jean Giraudoux at the Walnut Street Theatre…
View More ONDINE (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): At sea with emotional hyperboleThe City of Brotherly Bard: Revolution Shakespeare returns with a show and a webseries
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better Philadelphia’s newest Shakespeare company, Revolution Shakespeare, will present the second offering of its inaugural season on…
View More The City of Brotherly Bard: Revolution Shakespeare returns with a show and a webseriesONDINE (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): Nature versus Human Nature
When Hans, a handsome but not-so-smart knight-errant of Wittenstein, meets the unbridled naiad Ondine at a fisherman’s cottage in the woods, they fall recklessly in…
View More ONDINE (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): Nature versus Human NatureMake a date with dance: BalletX Winter Series
If you still think of ballet as inaccessible formalist movement to stuffy classical music, you have not seen BalletX. With an inviting Winter 2014 program spanning Valentine’s Day, this is a great opportunity to make a date with dance.
View More Make a date with dance: BalletX Winter SeriesTRUE WEST (Theatre Exile): Sibling rivalry and the American dream
Sibling rivalry, conflicting personalities, and antithetical lifestyles regress to anti-social antics, primal rage, and role reversal in TRUE WEST, Sam Shepard’s dark comedy about two…
View More TRUE WEST (Theatre Exile): Sibling rivalry and the American dreamID:3 (Hybridge Arts): Tapas of challenging dance and theater
Last night at Christ Church Neighborhood House, Hybridge Arts Collective brought it to me live with ID:3, an evening of three performance works by the…
View More ID:3 (Hybridge Arts): Tapas of challenging dance and theaterGRIMMS’ JUNIPER TREE (Renegade): 60 Second Review
GRIMMS’ JUNIPER TREE weaves in plot points from various famously morose Grimm brothers’ fairy tales around one lesser known story—that of the Juniper Tree. This…
View More GRIMMS’ JUNIPER TREE (Renegade): 60 Second ReviewTRUE WEST (Theatre Exile): a rare, in-your-face take on a modern classic
Theatre Exile mounts new, dicey plays and modern classics—badass classics, that is, from outstanding contemporary playwrights like Tracy Letts, Martin McDonough, and in this case,…
View More TRUE WEST (Theatre Exile): a rare, in-your-face take on a modern classicGRIMMS’ JUNIPER TREE (Renegade): Important Lessons to Be Learned
Based on the dark and disturbing folktales of the Brothers Grimm, James Stover’s original world-premiere adaptation for the Renegade Company, GRIMMS’ JUNIPER TREE, examines the…
View More GRIMMS’ JUNIPER TREE (Renegade): Important Lessons to Be LearnedTHREE CHORD FICTION: LOVE BITES (BRAT): A Riotous Night of Rock-Theater Cabaret
BRAT Productions, Philly’s foremost purveyor of fearless rock-and-roll theater, rocks the Tin Angel with a new installment of its Barrymore Award-winning series THREE CHORD FICTION:…
View More THREE CHORD FICTION: LOVE BITES (BRAT): A Riotous Night of Rock-Theater CabaretSo, Grandma Sets You Up on a Blind Date…
It stands to reason that pairing grandmothers (even fantasy ones) and a creative type like a dancer or composer would result in a match made in heaven. At Thirdbird’s BLIND DATES, we find just that in an improvisational sampler platter. With the help of a bingo-ball spinner, our hosts, Fantasy Grandma randomly pair up dancers and musicians who have been assigned numbers corresponding with the balls….
View More So, Grandma Sets You Up on a Blind Date…WATER BY THE SPOONFUL (Arden Theatre): Dissonance v. harmony
The tragic news of Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s death by OD has, for the moment, wrested the subject of substance abuse from the shadows and thrust…
View More WATER BY THE SPOONFUL (Arden Theatre): Dissonance v. harmonySNOWGLOBE (MacKnight Foundation): 60-second review
With clever repartee, SNOWGLOBE cleverly tackles deep existential questions. Under Bill McKinlay’s direction, the actors bring life and nuance to the clever Beckettian back-and-forth.
View More SNOWGLOBE (MacKnight Foundation): 60-second review