James Ijames won the Pulitzer Prize for Fat Ham, which is now running on Broadway; his even newer play, Abandon, has just opened at Theatre Exile.
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BURIED CHILD (EgoPo): A powerful production of a difficult play
It’s very satisfying to see this 1978 play revived; it still speaks to us and to the American condition
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Getting to Know LaNeshe Miller of Theatre in the X
A long-form interview with actor and theatermaker LaNeshe Miller.
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DAY OF ABSENCE (Flying Quilt/Iron Age): 2018 Fringe review
It’s haunting how relevant—and funny—this somewhat dated piece remains
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Back to Prison: Playwright Kash Goins on his reprised play V to X at Arden Theatre
Kash Goins talks to Phindie about the new production of his acclaimed prison drama and the Arden’s coming season.
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Theater in Sketch: ANNA (EgoPo)
A loose adaptation by Brenna Geffer and her ensemble based on the novel, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.
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Theater in Sketch: MOTHER COURAGE
Some sketches of some Brecht.
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MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN (Quintessence): Epic theater!
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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KING JOHN (Revolution Shakespeare): 2016 Fringe review 88
You won’t get many opportunities to see KING JOHN; you’re unlikely to see one as well-rendered as Revolution Shakespeare’s.
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The Bastard of KING JOHN: Carlo Campbell on Revolution Shakespeare Fringe offering
Rev Shakes’ annual mainstage productions begin the final weekend of the Fringe and showcase a sensibility at home in the festival
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International Fringe 2016: A welcome to theater from around the world, including refugees
The International Philly Fringe: A welcome to 28 countries
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An ALL-Black OTHELLO: Director Ozzie Jones talks about his “gloriously liberating” casting for Theatre in the X, part 2
In part two of our interview with Ozzie Jones, the director talks about his decision to cast an ALL-black OTHELLO.
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Bringing OTHELLO to the Hood: Interview with director Ozzie Jones, part 1
Henrik Eger speaks to director Ozzie Jones about Theatre in the X and presenting Shakespeare in an area some call “the hood”.
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MOON MAN WALK (Orbiter 3): Interstellar overdrive
James Ijames’s MOON MAN WALK, the first offering by new playwrights’ collective Orbiter 3 presents a fantasy world and a very real story. And a manic pixie girl.
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VI DEGREES (GoKash): Comrades in erotic arms
VI DEGREES by Kash Goins opens with a playfully sexual banter between an affianced couple: Solomon (Carlo Campbell), a classic tall, dark, and handsome schoolteacher…
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THE HAIRY APE (EgoPo): The cage of modern life
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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Richard II (Quintessence): Let us sit on the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings
RICHARD II is a richly rewarding play, full of insightful and startling verse, but you might want to read a synopsis before seeing this production.
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AS YOU LIKE IT (Quintessence): Do you not know I am a woman?
Burns and his cast humanize Shakespeare’s characters and provide a smart, jolly time that is tinged with genuine sentiment.
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DEATH OF A SALESMAN (GoKash): What happens to a dream deferred
“There is no future for a people who deny their past. My Foreparents, My Grandparents, My Mother, My Father did not suffer and die to…
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THE BROTHERS SIZE (Simpatico): 60-second review
The stories of the orishas, a pantheon of spirit personalities, has a lasting influence on the descendants of enslaved Africans throughout the Americas (The great…
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