Philadelphia Theater Calendar: December 2016
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“Lauren Feldman is a goddess”: 10 Philadelphia playwrights describe a beloved PlayPenn teacher
Lauren Feldman’s 7-week course for Philadelphia area playwrights had such a profound impact on those she taught.
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Philadelphia DANCE Annual Holiday Dance Guide 2016
Philadelphia offers a whole host of Nutcracker productions and other productions that have become holiday traditions.
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Meeting the TWO WALKENS: Susanne Collins and Kevin Meehan on their new work
For their debut production, Susanne Collins and Kevin Meehan looked to one of the most iconic actors of contemporary cinema: Christopher Walken.
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FOUND (PTC): 60-second review
If you’ve ever seen an inscription in a used book and envisioned the person who wrote it, or stumbled upon a note meant for someone else and marveled, FOUND is speaking to you
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AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (Broadway Philadelphia): Put on your dancing shoes, watch your spirits climb
If your dancing shoes aren’t quite up to the task, this show will do the trick.
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Imogen Cooper (McCarter): Concert review
The distinguished British pianist Imogen Cooper presented several works for piano on November 9, 2016, at the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton.
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AN ILIAD (Lantern): Homer sweet homer
AN ILIAD brings Homer’s characters and their epic struggle to life using just a sole narrator and musical accompaniment.
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THE WIZARD OF OZ (Walnut): Just like you remember it!
There’s no place like home, and this winter you don’t need to drive very far to learn that lesson again at the Walnut Street Theater’s musical THE WIZARD OF OZ.
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Dance in Sketch: Koresh Artists’ Showcase November Series
Drawing dance is a challenge. It is difficult to capture gesture, for example, because it is always changing. Modern dance provides a new means to an abstracted form of story telling. Each performance left me with a different feeling: bizarre, savage, sweet and tender, sensual, and empowering.
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SUNSET, O639 HOURS (BalletX): A ballet masterpiece
Like other masterpieces of ballet, SUNSET, O639 HOURS grows by itself and lets the dancers grow.
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DUBLIN BY LAMPLIGHT (Inis Nua / Drexel MPiRP): Irish theater for the theatrical
Inis Nua Theatre Company’s 2011 breakout hit DUBLIN BY LAMPLIGHT returns to the stage in partnership with Drexel University’s Mandell Professionals in Residence Project
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Six Questions for Six Directors: John O’Hara’s 12 CHAIRS gets a revamped production
Female-centric theater group ReVamp Collective presents 12 CHAIRS.
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A Philadelphian in AN AMERICAN IN PARIS: Colby Lindeman returns to his hometown on a Broadway tour
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS’s touring cast includes Philly local Colby Q. Lindeman, a proud graduate of Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts
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Ready for the Next Flight: BalletX reprises SUNSET, o639 HOURS
Eri Yoneda interviews the lead dancers of BalletX’s popular contemporary full-length
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Dance in Sketch: Jérôme Bel (FringeArts)
Witnessing Jérôme Bel’s dance I captured the representation of a baroque drama, an existential dance, and light and sound personified.
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REVOLUTION (PA Ballet): Revolution for our mind
Dance is an ever-changing artform: the standard themes change, technique changes,audiences change. Even such key aspects and tools as the body shape of the dancers change.
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MARISOL (Villanova): Wake up call by golf club
José Rivera’s fantastically powerful portent of a world is fabulously riveting as directed by James Ijames at Villanova Theatre.
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MAURITIUS (Act II): Feeling the philatelia
Act II Playhouse gets all dramatic with Theresa Rebeck’s MAURITIUS
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The Architect and the Candidate: An election comic
An election comic by Aaron Krolikowski
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