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BABEL (Theatre Exile): Uncertifiable

Joshua Herren February 23, 2020 No Comments

Theatre Exile’s newest offering left Josh Herren cold. He is trying to figure out why.

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Jackie Goldfinger. Babel Theatre Exile
Features Interviews Theater

Playing God: Jacqueline Goldfinger talks about her newest play

Christopher Munden January 29, 2020 No Comments

Jackie Goldfinger on building a tower to god.

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Fringe Festival Fringe reviews Reviews Theater

RED LODGE, MONTANA (The Antidote): 2019 Fringe review

Kathryn Osenlund September 17, 2019 1 Comment

A bizarro fusion of indolence, violence, nudity, sex, and dance

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Previews Theater

Fringe preview: An unapologetic love letter to David Lynch

Smalley Bogg September 1, 2019 No Comments

Red Lodge, Montana is The Antidote’s Fringe love letter to Lynch

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Reviews Theater

BETTY’S SUMMER VACATION (IRC): A terribly funny nightmare of a beach trip

Margaret Darby June 16, 2019 No Comments

For their June show, the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium decided to take on a grotesque play by Christopher Durang which Tina Brock directed. Brock herself has…

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Features Theater

Theater in Sketch: THREE SISTERS TWO (EgoPo)

Chuck Schultz February 12, 2019 No Comments

Chuck Schultz gives his thoughts in words and sketch

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Theater of the Extreme: Amanda Schoonover looks back on PHAEDRA’S LOVE

Henrik Eger October 13, 2018 No Comments

Henrik Eger talks to actor Amanda Schoonover about Sarah Kane and her career.

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PHAEDRA’S LOVE (Svaha Theatre Collective): 2018 Fringe review

Christopher Munden September 21, 2018 No Comments

Two decades after her suicide, Kane remains one of the most truthful voices in theater. Svaha’s production captures her brilliance.

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I <3 ADRIAEN (Gerhardus): 2018 Fringe review

Lisa Panzer September 20, 2018 No Comments

An artful blend of theater and history thrives among the tombstones at Old Swedes Church

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Theater in Sketch: ANNA (EgoPo)

Chuck Schultz April 4, 2017 No Comments

A loose adaptation by Brenna Geffer and her ensemble based on the novel, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.

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Reviews Theater

RIZZO (PTC): A larger-than-life life onstage

Christopher Munden October 1, 2016 No Comments

An entertaining work about a compelling character, RIZZO displays pitfalls common to biographical drama.

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Anthony Crosby and Amanda Schoonover in Simpatico’s THE IT GIRL (Photo credit: Kate Raines/Plate 3 Photography)
Reviews Theater

THE IT GIRL (Simpatico): Sounds of silence that still resonate

Debra Miller January 30, 2016 1 Comment

A world-premiere fictionalized bio-play on silent-film star Clara Bow captures the era and the lessons of her life and career as seen through a contemporary lens.

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K.O. DelMarcelle: Maintaining versatility with an eye on the future

Debra Miller January 14, 2016 No Comments

Barrymore Award-nominated actress and choreographer K.O. DelMarcelle talks about her past experiences, current life, and future aspirations.

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Reviews Theater

RIZZO (Theatre Exile): A romp through the Rizzo years

Kathryn Osenlund October 24, 2015 1 Comment

Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear when Frank Rizzo strode the city like he owned it.

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Reviews Theater

RIZZO (Theatre Exile): A big hit on the “Big Bambino”

Debra Miller October 23, 2015 No Comments

A world-premiere production on former Mayor Frank Rizzo portrays the good and the bad of the controversial Philadelphia icon.

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Many Goodly Creatures: Allen Radway talks THE TEMPEST, Simpatico, and fatherhood

Christopher Munden July 7, 2015 1 Comment

Even a brief encounter with Allen Radway reveals the intelligence, sympathy, and generosity of spirit evident in his theatrical work. We talk to him ahead of his newest, CCTCs THE TEMPEST.

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Dance Reviews Theater

THE HAIRY APE (EgoPo): The cage of modern life

Christopher Munden April 13, 2015 No Comments

The challenge for EgoPo director Brenna Geffers was to make a play which must have been theatrically and politically radical a century ago relevant to a 21st-century audience.

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60-Second Review Reviews Theater

THE GLASS MENAGERIE (Act II): 60-second review

Lauren Hartranft November 6, 2014 No Comments

Tennessee Williams’ classic story comes to life on the stage of Act II Playhouse.

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Scott Greer as Valere in the Arden’s LA BÊTE (Photo credit: Mark Garvin)
Reviews Theater

LA BÊTE (Arden Theatre Company): “Excellence Must Struggle to Survive!”

Debra Miller September 25, 2014 No Comments

David Hirson’s riotous comedy in rhyming couplets evokes the farcical Baroque style of Molière while conveying a timeless message about high art versus low art.

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Amanda Grove, Jessica Gruver, and Amanda Schoonover star in Luna Theater Company’s BRAINPEOPLE (Photo credit: Gregory Scott Campbell)
Reviews Theater

BRAINPEOPLE (Luna): A Haunting Invitation to Dinner

Debra Miller May 5, 2014 No Comments

Concluding its 2013-14 themed season “Once upon a Time,” Luna Theater Company’s 80-minute Philadelphia premiere of BRAINPEOPLE, told in real time, is mysterious, disturbing, and challenging; but then director Gregory Scott Campbell was never one to avoid a challenge

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