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Tag: Blanka Zizka

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Considering Wilma’s Next Chapter: Blanka Zizka is joined by three co-directors

Christopher Munden February 18, 2020 No Comments

Changes are afoot at the Wilma Theater, with Blanka Zizka moving on from her role as sole artistic director after forty years in charge of the company.

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DESCRIBE THE NIGHT (Wilma): Put on your thinking caps

Kathryn Osenlund February 6, 2020 1 Comment

Put on your thinking cap if you’re thinking of going to see DESCRIBE THE NIGHT

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THERE (Wilma): 2019 Fringe review

Yumna Tolaimate September 20, 2019 No Comments

THERE is not a place on Earth’s map. It is not a poem recital, nor is it a play.

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THERE (Wilma): 2019 Fringe review

Toby Zinman September 15, 2019 No Comments

Visually arresting and aurally haunting, THERE makes rarefied language solid and visceral

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A Welcome to the International Artists at the 2019 Fringe Festival

Henrik Eger September 5, 2019 1 Comment

Henrik Eger greets international Fringe artists.

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Philadelphia theater through the eyes of J. Cooper Robb, Part 2: 2004

Henrik Eger September 2, 2019 No Comments

Revisiting Philly theater history through the eyes of one of its finest critics.

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ROMEO AND JULIET (Wilma): Wherefore do Romeo and Juliet?

Christopher Munden January 22, 2019 1 Comment

What about Shakespeare do we want kids to like?

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KILL MOVE PARADISE (Wilma Theater): 2018 Fringe review

Christopher Munden September 14, 2018 No Comments

There’s no fourth wall here: the audience is complicit in the consideration of POC men who lost their lives to judicial murder

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PASSAGE (Wilma): Love and death in Country X

Christopher Munden May 1, 2018 No Comments

The way to get an audience to ask itself profound questions about a work is not by asking the audience profound questions about the work.

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Theater in Sketch: PASSAGE (Wilma Theater)

Chuck Schultz April 30, 2018 No Comments

PASSAGE reminds sketch artist Chuck Schultz of a painting at the Philadelphia Museum by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema.

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How should Philadelphia Theatre Company rebrand itself?

Cameron Kelsall April 23, 2017 1 Comment

Cameron Kelsall has some ideas for the new executive director.

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ADAPT! (Wilma): On the brink of dawn

Julia Taus April 4, 2017 No Comments

Blanka Zizka boldly steps forth as both debut playwright and seasoned director of the semi-autobiographical ADAPT!

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WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING (Wilma): How a hard rain’s a gonna fall

Nicole Forrester October 21, 2016 No Comments

Using the endtimes as a backdrop, Andrew Bovell uses the drama within a family’s history as a parallel for the turbulence in humanity’s.

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Commedia dell’Arte: Highlights from the “Master Class with Antonio Fava”

Benjamin Lloyd February 17, 2016 No Comments

Experiences in a master class with maestro Antonio Fava

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How Commedia dell’Arte Maestro Antonio Fava influenced my teaching and my life: Interview with Craig Tavani

Henrik Eger February 16, 2016 No Comments

Maestro Antonio Fava has taught Commedia dell’Arte to quite a few Philadelphia-area actors and directors, including Immaculata University instructor Craig Tavani.

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THE HARD PROBLEM (Wilma): Stoppard makes intelligible intelligence look easy

Christopher Munden January 16, 2016 1 Comment

Tom Stoppard again demonstrates his uncanny ability to make dense philosophical discussions intelligible and dramatically sensible.

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What Can The Wilma Do With $10 Million?

Christopher Munden January 12, 2016 1 Comment

A new $10 million in funds includes money for an updated facade, a cafe space, and a 10-member artistic company.

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Ben Dibble, winner of "Best Actor" for his role in Herringbone at Flashpoint Theatre.
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Picks for Best in Theater, 2014/15, by Philly Reviewer Neal Zoren

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper July 12, 2015 No Comments

Each year, Philadelphia-based reviewer Neal Zoren announces his choices for the Helen and Morris Zoren Awards for World Theater. A fair number of the picks on Neal’s list are performers and productions from the Philadelphia area.

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Moonwalking on the Moon: Lindsay Smiling on Michael Jackson, Philly theater, and the inaugural production by Orbiter 3

Christopher Munden June 29, 2015 1 Comment

This week marks a landmark in independent theater in Philadelphia: the inaugural production by Orbiter 3, a new producing playwrights collective. Over the next three years,…

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ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD (Wilma): A contemporary classic, in three parts

Michael Fisher May 29, 2015 No Comments

Tom Stoppard’s ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD is perhaps the most ubiquitous work of postmodern drama.

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