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    BEOWULF (Benjamin Bagby): A rare theatrical experience

    Benjamin Bagby takes on the role of the scop, the storyteller

    Toby Zinman January 28, 2023 No Comments
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  • Theater

    Waiting For Lefty (Quintessence): On the side of angels but not art

    This show has history. Odets, a voice for his disinherited generation was born in Philadelphia.

    Kathryn Osenlund January 24, 2023 No Comments
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  • Theater

    FARRENC AND BRAHMS (Philadelphia Orchestra) Soloist Seong-Jin Cho dominates a night of high drama

    It was just minutes into the performance, but the crowd at Verizon Hall was already overcome.

    Michael Fisher January 23, 2023 No Comments
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  • Theater

    LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS (Walnut): Feeling nostalgic?

    Are you missing those bad hairdos and baggy blue suits of 1969?

    Toby Zinman January 21, 2023 No Comments
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  • Theater

    About Face: Actor Charles Everett on A SOLDIER’S PLAY

    Actor Charles Everett brings both his acting and military background with him as he tours with A Soldier’s Play.

    Debra Danese January 18, 2023 No Comments
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Reviews Theater

Two Jews Walk Into A War at InterAct

Mara Miller April 18, 2011 No Comments

At the Adrienne last Thursday night, the show started before the curtain went up: first there was the woman who got a verbal spanking from…

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Arts Features Previews Theater Visual

World War What? Did PIFA forget a little something in its celebration of Paris 1910-20?

Josh McIlvain April 14, 2011 No Comments

IS it just a little strange that in a festival with a theme of Paris 1910–20, few of the shows and none of the literature seem to mention that there was a little war going on

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Dance Features

Dance and Music Rights, or When Were You Planning To Pay For That Music, Friend?

Josh McIlvain April 10, 2011 No Comments

In the not distant past, I was watching a dance performance, which I was enjoying, and I couldn’t help thinking—if this dance company was caught…

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Reviews Theater

Bleak Complexity: SPEAKING IN TONGUES at the Walnut’s Independence on 3

Christopher Munden April 5, 2011 No Comments

As SPEAKING IN TONGUES opens, two couples are about to cheat on their partners. Their dialog develops in unison; each pairing uttering the same lines.…

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Arts Features

In the Swing: A Brief History of Baseball in Philadelphia

Christopher Munden April 1, 2011 No Comments

Baseball in Philadelphia is riding on a wave of success by the hometown Phillies, winners of four straight National League East titles and two of…

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Reviews Theater

One Woman, Many Voices: LET ME DOWN EASY at PTC

Christopher Munden March 29, 2011 No Comments

There are many voices in this nation’s health care debate, and Anna Deveare Smith could probably act out them all. In LET ME DOWN EASY,…

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Features Theater

Five Technical Things About Ancient Roman Comedic Stages You Were Dying To Know

Mara Miller March 27, 2011 2 Comments

We know about the plays, at least if we have read them. But how much do we know about ancient stages? We’ve asked PPAA classics…

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Reviews Theater

BCKSEET Productions’ Losing the Shore

Christopher Munden March 23, 2011 No Comments

You never expect lighthearted comedy when going to a show by BCKSEET Productions. Argentine prison dramas, biting Edward Albee plays, and a Christmas show depicting Santa…

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Features Theater

Updike’s guide to reviewing

Christopher Munden March 22, 2011 2 Comments

Submit to whatever spell, weak or strong, is being cast. Better to praise and share than blame and ban. The communion between reviewer and his…

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culture

Philly For Foodies

Smalley Bogg March 22, 2011 No Comments

Food is an essential part of what makes Philadelphia tick. Each neighbourhood has its own unique style, for instance in West Philly you’ll find traditional…

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Dance Features Theater

Lessons from Newt Gingrich: or how we in the theatre and dance communities can stop acting like losers and learn to make the nation love us

Josh McIlvain March 22, 2011 1 Comment

How often have you heard that performing arts are dying, that we’re a niche market, that you can never make a living off of it,…

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Reviews Theater

It’s The End of the World As We Knew It: New City’s PTERODACTYLS at the Adrienne

Christopher Munden March 16, 2011 No Comments

PTERODACTYLS takes place in a sterile Main Line living room (set design Cory Palmer), a fitting setting for a work reminiscent of Victorian drawing room…

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Dance Features

Meta is Dead. Long Live Meta.

Josh McIlvain March 15, 2011 No Comments

I want to talk about shows in theatre and dance that deal with the audience head on. In other words, works that acknowledge the existence…

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Interviews Theater

The New and Old of It: Interview with BCKSEET’s Gregory DeCandia

Christopher Munden March 14, 2011 1 Comment

BCKSEET Productions has staged more than thirty plays in their eleven-year history, about half of those in Philadelphia, the city the company has called home…

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culture

Square 1682: Restaurant review

Smalley Bogg March 12, 2011 No Comments

I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to Square 1682, which proved that you can have high end service and quality without the high end price tag.

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Features Previews Theater

California Fresh: New theater company launches in Kensington arts space

Christopher Munden March 9, 2011 No Comments

The back streets of Kensington may not have much in common with Hollywood

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Features Theater

It’s “theater”

Christopher Munden March 9, 2011 No Comments

Philadelphia is in the United States, so I’ve decided that theater should be spelled theater, not the English/French theatre. Right.

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Reviews Theater

THE CRUCIBLE (Tri-County Performing Arts Center)

Christopher Munden March 7, 2011 No Comments

Like many people, I was introduced to THE CRUCIBLE in a high school English class. The teacher dutifully told us that it was a play…

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Reviews Theater

LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE by Theatre Exile at Plays and Players

Christopher Munden March 4, 2011 No Comments

Playwright Martin McDonagh delivers a powerful political message in the most palatable of pills

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Interviews Theater

How To Succeed In Comedy With Really Trying: Interview with The Waitstaff’s Sara Carano

Josh McIlvain March 2, 2011 No Comments

For seven years Sara Carano has been a member of The Waitstaff, a Philly-based sketch comedy troupe that has proven to be one of city’s…

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