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…
View More Conceptual Dance and Star Power
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…
View More Sarah Kane’s Controversial Play ‘Blasted’ Comes to Philadelphia’s Luna Theater Company
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…
View More Philly needs an Equity Showcase—sound the horn!
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…
View More What the fuck are they teaching our kids? Interview with UArts student Jessica Rodriguez
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…
View More Can we get Cliff Lee to a play?
Another Sondheim revival is not what will put Philly on the theater map.
View More So I was looking at the PTI website the other day . . .
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…
View More California Living in Kensington: an interview with John Rosenberg of Hella Fresh Theatre
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…
View More What I learned from GQ today
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…
View More Musical theater kicks off Mauckingbird Theatre Company’s fourth season
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…
View More A Weekend of Christmas Plays
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.…
View More PTC Preview show to benefit Philadelphia literacy organization
Published in 1974, Stephen King’s Carrie, the tale of a bullied high school outcast who takes bloody telekinetic revenge upon her torturers, kick started a horror-writing career that…
View More Brat Productions Presents ‘Carrie’ at Underground Arts
The Live Arts and Philly Fringe has grown and moved mostly North and West from its Old City nexus, prices have gone up, and the roster of…
View More Theater Picks for the 2010 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe
Mauckingbird Theatre Company presents a gender-bent look at Shakespeare’s famous play for a woman wert thou first created; Till Nature, as she wrought thee, fell…
View More A Queer Midsummer Night’s Dream
August 2 saw the announcement of the 2010 Barrymore Awards. I only saw about 25 plays by 10 companies this season, so my pool of…
View More Best of Philadelphia Theater, 2009-2010
C.S. Lewis‘s The Screwtape Letters is more overtly religious than his allegorical children’s books. But just as an appreciation for the Narnia tales does not require a…
View More A Demonic Tour de Force: The Screwtape Letters Returns to the Lantern Theater Company
Not everyone likes Woody Allen’s comedy, it can be a bit high-brow, idiosyncratic, or vulgar for some tastes, and like any comedy, some of his…
View More An Evening Without Woody Allen
“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work… I want to achieve it through not dying.” — Woody Allen Woody Allen might be the preeminent comic mind…
View More 1812 Productions’ An Evening Without Woody Allen, now onstage at Plays and Players
Early publishing in Philadelphia has a rich and storied history. William Penn founded Philadelphia in 1682; within three years the nascent town had its first…
View More A Brief History of Early Publishing in Philadelphia
The past year has seen some great stagings by Irish playwright Colin McPherson in Philadelphia. The Arden’s brilliant Seafarer was followed by a stripped down…
View More Theatre Exile’s "Shining City" at Plays and Players