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    CLYDE’S (Arden): All the ingredients are here

    Terrific actors playing lovable characters, important issues, snappy dialogue, and plenty of comedy

    Toby Zinman February 5, 2023 No Comments
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  • Reviews Theater

    KISS (Wilma): What does it mean when someone else is representing you?

    A play is about acting as well as the political act of making theater as well as about getting it wrong through cultural appropriation

    Toby Zinman February 4, 2023 No Comments
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    FORWARD MOTION (Philadelphia Ballet): An excellent showcase of skill

    The intimate Perelman Theater in the Kimmel Cultural Campus provides an ideal setting for Philadelphia Ballet’s impressive new production, Forward Motion, three world premieres by…

    Christopher Munden February 4, 2023 No Comments
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    BROADS (1812 Productions): A tip of the hat to the grand old dames of comedy

    Take it from this old broad, Broads, 1812 Productions’ new show, is an entertaining 75 minutes—if you like funny songs and dirty jokes.

    Toby Zinman February 3, 2023 No Comments
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    New Museum for Art in Wood Sprouts in Old City

    Over the last four decades, the Center for Art in Wood on North 3rd Street in Old City has enhanced the public’s understanding of contemporary art…

    Smalley Bogg February 3, 2023 No Comments
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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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Features Theater

What I learned from GQ this time around

Josh McIlvain March 1, 2011 No Comments

Having been inspired last time around to write one of  PPAA’s most popular articles “What Learned From GQ Today,” I thought I might mine the current issue…

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Features

Did you see that thing about how last year Philly hotels had more guests than ever before?

Josh McIlvain February 23, 2011 No Comments

Yeah, so it seems a shitload of people spent the night in Philadelphia in 2010. According to an Inquirer article/industry press release from Feb 19, “Philadelphia filled…

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Interviews Theater

Don’t worry folks, he’s not like that in real life (or so he claims): Interview with Blasted’s John Jezior

Christopher Munden February 22, 2011 1 Comment

Actor John Jezior has become well known to Philadelphia area audiences through his work on Shakespeare productions; he has performed in nearly half of the…

View More Don’t worry folks, he’s not like that in real life (or so he claims): Interview with Blasted’s John Jezior
Reviews Theater

“Great Expectations” at Curio Theatre

Christopher Munden February 21, 2011 No Comments

Charles Dickens asked in his will that no memorials be erected to him and so the life-size sculpture of the author in Clarke Park in…

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Arts Dance Features

Conceptual Dance and Star Power

Josh McIlvain February 21, 2011 No Comments

My dance vocabulary is limited, so please forgive me as I redefine terms for my own benefit. When I say conceptual dance, I am referring…

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Reviews Theater

Sarah Kane’s Controversial Play ‘Blasted’ Comes to Philadelphia’s Luna Theater Company

Christopher Munden February 17, 2011 No Comments

That playwright Sarah Kane looked on the world as a pretty bleak place was confirmed by her 1999 suicide (at the young age of 28). But her…

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Features Theater

Philly needs an Equity Showcase—sound the horn!

Josh McIlvain February 13, 2011 1 Comment

I was producing a Fringe show last year, and I had an Equity actor (Actors’ Equity is the union for theatre actors). No problem, my…

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Jessica Rodriguez Philadelphia UArts theater student
Interviews Theater

What the fuck are they teaching our kids? Interview with UArts student Jessica Rodriguez

Josh McIlvain February 11, 2011 No Comments

I’m interested in the growth of The University of the Arts (UArts) and how its graduates have been sticking around and building their performing arts…

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Features Theater

Can we get Cliff Lee to a play?

Josh McIlvain February 5, 2011 No Comments

Cliff Lee made an appearance at the Philadelphia Auto Show, and it was the top story on the evening news. (Since this is a performing…

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Features Theater

So I was looking at the PTI website the other day . . .

Josh McIlvain February 4, 2011 No Comments

Another Sondheim revival is not what will put Philly on the theater map.

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John Rosenberg of Hella Fresh Theater in Kensignton Philadelphia
Interviews Theater

California Living in Kensington: an interview with John Rosenberg of Hella Fresh Theatre

Josh McIlvain January 29, 2011 2 Comments

I got a chance to catch up with playwright/director John Rosenberg of Hella Fresh Theatre whose show California Redemption Value is in the middle of its run…

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Features Theater

What I learned from GQ today

Josh McIlvain January 27, 2011 No Comments

For those of you familiar with my appearance, you may be surprised to learn that I have a subscription to GQ. Fear not, I do…

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Reviews Theater

Musical theater kicks off Mauckingbird Theatre Company’s fourth season

Christopher Munden January 22, 2011 No Comments

I’m not the target audience for Mauckingbird Theatre Company’s Philadelphia premier of “[title of show]”, now onstage UPstairs at the Adrienne Theatre. I’ve never been the…

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Previews Theater

A Weekend of Christmas Plays

Christopher Munden December 16, 2010 No Comments

Amazingly, there is just one weekend left until Christmas, but that’s still plenty of time to get your fill of holiday theater. Here is the…

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Previews Theater

PTC Preview show to benefit Philadelphia literacy organization

Christopher Munden November 11, 2010 No Comments

Tomorrow, Thursday 11, 2010, the Philadelphia Theater Company is presenting a special pay-what-you-can performance of its upcoming production, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.…

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