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
Ed Miller has been acting in and creating theater works in Philly since the 90s (the new 60s). Or at least, that’s when I first…
View More Angry Ed Miller Dishes On His Fringe Show Wired & Being A Theatre Artist In Philly (he’s not really angry, it’s just “Angry Ed Miller” has a nice ring to it)Annie Wilson is a local dancer-choreographer-performer-art maker type who has been making her presence known these past several years since graduation from the University of…
View More Annie’s Got a Brand New Bag: See It at the Philly FringeWhat to see in Philadephia this month.
View More Philadelphia Theater Calendar September 2018This hugely influential Philadelphian was responsible for everything from Little Bighorn to the Crash of 1873.
View More Jay Cooke: The Philadelphia banker who funded the Civil War, caused one of the nation’s biggest financial collapses, and founded Penn State AbingtonCalifornia born and bred, now entrenched in Philadelphia, the playwright-director John Rosenberg debuts his latest work Queen Of All Weapons this Saturday at 2pm at the Papermill…
View More “I always hated the 70s when I was a kid because I was dumb,” and other words of wisdom from John Rosenberg, writer-director of Queen Of All WeaponsMore than any other historical figure and his followers, Hitler and the Nazis are shorthand for evil. Few people emerge from the close contact with…
View More Madhouse Theater Company’s PLAYING LENI is SpellbindingIt’s a common complaint: few good roles exist for female actors in Philadelphia. Indeed even your most ardent male feminist (self-proclaimed) tends to turn his…
View More Bringing Women’s Voices to the Stage: an interview with Polly Rose Edelstein of Crack the Glass Theatre CompanyPhilly-based choreographer and dance impresario Jaamil Olawale Kosoko is a busy man these days—creatively, curatorially, and administratively. He recently changed the name of his company…
View More Personal Thoughts Made Physical: Jaamil Kosoko talks dance, poetry, and the Gemini ShowI began to attend Philadelphia theater in earnest about a decade ago, in my early mid-twenties. Consistently, my companion and I would be the youngest…
View More Old People and Theater (VIGIL at Lantern)I’ve been a lover of the stage as long as I can remember. Mostly this love has been realized as a patron of local theaters.…
View More Theater People vs. Theater Critics…The Ultimate DebateI’ve been a lover of the stage as long as I can remember. Mostly this love has been realized as a patron of local theaters.…
View More Why’s Everyone Such a Critic?It’s a luxury boutique property with 230 rooms just off the Rittenhouse Square area and although developed from an original 1929 art deco building
View More The Kimpton Palomar – Philadelphia’s First Green HotelSix theater companies came together this season to create the Philadelphia Irish Theatre Festival, which featured eight contemporary plays from the Emerald Isle. Brat Productions…
View More Talkin’ Irish with Madi Distefano of Brat ProductionsThere are some 400 million native English-language speakers in the world and about 6 million of them live on the island of Ireland, but the…
View More Brat Productions’ CRAIC Fringes the Irish Theatre FestQuintessence Theatre Group is wrapping up its inaugural season at the Sedgwick Theater in Mount Airy with The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, which is…
View More Classics Now and Forever: Interview with Quintessence Theatre’s Alexander BurnsCast members from Inis Nua Theatre’s DUBLIN BY LAMPLIGHT, playing in Philadelphia PA through May 14. The Royal Wedding and the death of international terrorist…
View More Commedia, Terrorism, and Royalty: Inis Nua’s DUBLIN BY LAMPLIGHTParis’s reputation as a a city of architectural beauty is long-held and its emblematic structures have influenced generations of Philadelphia architects and designers. This cultural…
View More Bastille to Broad Street: The French influence on Philadelphia architectureAs Octavio Solis’s sublimely crafted play Lydia opens, the Mexican American Flores family is struggling to cope with the aftermath of a terrible car accident.…
View More Amaryllis Theatre Company Brings an Excelente LYDIA to the AdrienneAt the Adrienne last Thursday night, the show started before the curtain went up: first there was the woman who got a verbal spanking from…
View More Two Jews Walk Into A War at InterActIS 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
View More World War What? Did PIFA forget a little something in its celebration of Paris 1910-20?