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    A Life Unfolds: Kathryn Grody’s The Unexpected 3rd

    Acclaimed actor and writer Kathryn Grody brings her wit, warmth, and sharp perspective to People’s Light in The Unexpected 3rd. Known for her distinctive voice…

    Debra Danese September 19, 2025 No Comments
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  • Reviews Theater

    A Summer Day (Wilma): Existential and eccentric

    An existential and eccentric play , it’s not light-hearted theater.

    Kathryn Osenlund June 24, 2025 No Comments
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  • Theater

    Mushnik Reimagined: May Elizabeth Scallen in Little Shop of Horrors

    In Little Shop of Horrors, Mary Elizabeth Scanlon takes on the role of Mushnik, the flower shop owner with a front-row seat to the madness.

    Debra Danese June 24, 2025 No Comments
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    GIOVANNI’S ROOM (Quintessence): Bringing Baldwin to the stage

    Giovanni’s Room, is currently on stage in Philadelphia in world premiere. The James Baldwin Estate granted Quintessence Theatre permission to produce this theatrical adaptation, the…

    Kathryn Osenlund June 9, 2025 No Comments
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  • Reviews Theater

    RENT (Arden): Revisiting a 90s La boheme

    Jonathan Larson,  who wrote the book, lyrics, and music in 1994, described Rent as a Rock Opera

    Kathryn Osenlund June 2, 2025 No Comments
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Reviews Theater

MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN (Quintessence): Epic theater!

Lisa Panzer October 18, 2016 1 Comment

Quintessence Theatre brings to life a beautifully staged, truly epic production of Bertolt Brecht’s MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN, as brilliantly directed by Alexander Burns.

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Previews

ELECTORAL DYSFUNCTION Returns (no, we don’t mean the Trump campaign)

Smalley Bogg October 17, 2016 No Comments

As the electoral dysfunction of the 2016 presidential campaign nears to a much longed-for close, New York comedy show ELECTORAL DYSFUNCTION returns to Philadelphia for one night only, October 22, 2016, at 9pm.

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Dance Reviews

RUBBERBANDance Group (NextMove Dance): Hip-Hop, beyond borders

Eri Yoneda October 16, 2016 No Comments

Over four decades, NextMove Dance (formerly Dance Affiliates) has led the dance scene in Philadelphia, bringing countless cutting-edge dance companies from around the world. As…

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Features Interviews Theater

Gaslighting Done Right: Interview with the cast of Hedgerow Theatre’s reinvented ANGEL STREET

Henrik Eger October 16, 2016 No Comments

Considering a trimmed, contemporized, and feminized version of a classic British drama

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Dance Reviews

CINDERELLA (PA Ballet): Enchanting ballet magic

Eri Yoneda October 16, 2016 No Comments

The ballet shows the brave and caring intention of artistic director Angel Corella to the company and the Philadelphia ballet fans.

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Features Previews Theater

Dinner Theater, Recooked

Christopher Munden October 12, 2016 No Comments

Irreverent local performers present two strange and sumptuous evenings of independent theater and comedy alongside food and cocktails

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Reviews Theater

A CLOSER WALK WITH PATSY CLINE (BRT): Fall to pieces over Patsy

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper October 11, 2016 No Comments

Someone should sit down and write a dozen Country tunes for Jessica Wagner to record in the style of Patsy Cline.

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Talking EMPEROR JONES: Interview with the director and cast of O’Neill’s tragedy at the South Camden Theatre Company

Henrik Eger October 11, 2016 2 Comments

Eugene O’Neill’s THE EMPEROR JONES kicks off the South Camden Theatre Company’s Fall season

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Reviews Theater

GROUNDED (InterAct): The killing screens

Christopher Munden October 9, 2016 No Comments

GROUNDED is a tale for our times: war is most hellish when it resembles office life, reality is most profound rendered in pixels.

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Dance Reviews

Pennsylvania Ballet II performs at Culture in the Courtyard

Debra Danese October 9, 2016 No Comments

PB II performed under clear, blue skies, with William Penn as their backdrop

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THE BIRDS (Curio): Terror takes flight

Christopher Munden October 8, 2016 No Comments

This adaptation by master Irish playwright Conor McPherson finds its horror in the claustrophobic relationships between its four characters

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Music

Opera in Sketch: BREAKING THE WAVES

Chuck Schultz October 8, 2016 No Comments

This opera was really something else. An adaptation by Mizzy Mazzolli (music) and Royce Vavrek (libretto) of a movie by Lars von Trier.

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Reviews Theater

ELECTRA (Villanova): Sophocles gets electrified

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper October 5, 2016 No Comments

Review of Sophocles’ Electra at Villanova Theatre

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Features Interviews Theater

Thomas Choinacky Says There’s No Hope

Christopher Munden October 5, 2016 No Comments

The founder of SoLow Fest talks about his latest work, HOPELESSNESS, performed one night only October 8.

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Leading the Blind: Interview with the director and cast of Irish Heritage Theatre’s MOLLY SWEENEY

Henrik Eger October 5, 2016 No Comments

We presented five questions to IRT’s Peggy Mecham, the director, and the three cast members: Kirsten Quinn as Molly Sweeney, the blind woman; Ethan Lipkin as the husband; and Michael P. Toner as the physician.

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Reviews Theater

MOLLY SWEENEY (Irish Heritage Theatre): That the blind may see

Jessica Foley October 4, 2016 No Comments

Turn off your phones, step away from your laptops, and run, don’t walk to the Irish Heritage Theatre’s first ever Barrymore-eligible production.

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Features Fringe Festival Music Podcasts Theater

Philly’s Kinda Cool episode 2.1: We back!

Christopher Munden October 3, 2016 No Comments

Would Sebastian would rather sleep with Hillary or Donald, what the hell his Fringe show was about, and what’s the worst way to cook an omelette?

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Features Interviews Theater

Drone Warfare Hits Home: Kittson O’Neill on InterAct’s GROUNDED

Christopher Munden October 3, 2016 No Comments

Kittson O’Neill plays a fighter pilot and expectant mother living in a desert suburb in the U.S. Southwest, controlling weapons which kill people in a distant foreign desert.

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Reviews Theater

THE MOUNTAINTOP (People’s Light): An original vision of Martin Luther King

Debra Miller October 3, 2016 No Comments

Katori Hall’s creative re-imagining of Martin Luther King’s final night before his assassination in 1968 is delivered through forceful performances and an evocative design.

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culture

Are Bitcoin Transactions Anonymous?

Smalley Bogg October 3, 2016 No Comments

It is All in the Network

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