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RAGE OF ACHILLES (CCTC): The absurdity and tragedy of war

Debra Miller August 9, 2015 No Comments

Commonwealth Classic Theatre presents a world-premiere production of Paul Parente’s meaningful tragicomedy on the absurdities and horrors of war, inspired by the events and characters from Homer’s Iliad.

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THE FAIR MAID OF THE WEST, PART I (PAC): A pirate adventure “worth gold!”

Debra Miller April 4, 2015 1 Comment

Thomas Heywood’s ridiculous rip-roaring romantic romp across the high seas of the English Renaissance is the latest in the Philadelphia Artists’ Collective’s acclaimed productions of rarely seen classics.

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OTHELLO (Curio): A different approach to an iconic tragedy

Debra Miller February 23, 2015 No Comments

This original take on OTHELLO has more the feel of a farcical comedy than an ironic tragedy

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Victoria Rose Bonito and J Hernandez star in BLOOD WEDDING (Photo credit: Kate Raines/PLATE 3 Photography)
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BLOOD WEDDING (PAC/MPiRP): A symbiotic relationship between the arts and education

Debra Miller November 10, 2014 1 Comment

Love, betrayal, vengeance, and death are the themes of Federico García Lorca’s Spanish Symbolist tragedy, BLOOD WEDDING.

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Director Damon Bonetti, captured during last night's "Blood Wedding" rehearsal, by Drexel photography student Cindi Landmesser.
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PAC’s Damon Bonetti on BLOOD WEDDING: “Peace in a cruel world”

Christopher Munden November 5, 2014 No Comments

Phindie spoke to Damon Bonetti, a founding member of the Philadelphia Artists’ Collective and director of PAC’s latest offering, Frederico Garcia Lorca’s BLOOD WEDDING.

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME . . . A MUTE PLAY (The Renegade Company): 2014 Fringe Review 35

Debra Miller September 12, 2014 No Comments

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME . . . A MUTE PLAY captures the narrative, message, emotion, and beauty of its literary source without speaking a word

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Photo credit: Meghann Hickson
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Fringe preview: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, A Mute Play: Trailer

Christopher Munden August 27, 2014 No Comments

The Renegade Company presents a new work, The Hunchback of Notre Dame…A Mute Play, as its offering for the 2014 Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

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SEX, DRUGS, ROCK & ROLL (Plays & Players): 60-second review

Christopher Munden June 10, 2014 No Comments

In SEX, DRUGS, ROCK & ROLL, Eric Bogasian’s revolving cast of characters—an aging rock star, a homeless bottle man, an 80s yuppie, and a handful of others—have little in common except their masculine hedonism.

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DANCING AT LUGHNASA (Curio): Casting Disaster

Jessica Foley March 13, 2014 1 Comment

The summer of 1998, I permanently moved out of my mother’s house. (My mother moved down to Nashville abruptly and without me.) So I traveled…

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Photo Essay: Kyle Cassidy captures DANCING AT LUGHNASA (Curio Theatre)

Kyle Cassidy February 20, 2014 No Comments

Photographer Kyle Cassidy is a Philadelphia treasure. He has been documenting American culture since the 1990s, photographing goths, punks, cutters, politicians, metalheads, dominatrices, scholars, and…

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Curio Theater Company's ROMEO AND JULIET stars Rachel Gluck and Isa St. Clair (Photo credit: Kyle Cassidy)
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ROMEO AND JULIET (Curio): A same-sex take on Shakespeare’s classic

Debra Miller October 14, 2013 No Comments

The world’s most famous love story is given a new twist. The familiar characters are now the teenaged daughters of the feuding Montague and Capulet families, whose tragic romance is used to explore the true universality of Shakespeare’s themes.

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Philadelphia Artists’ Collective’s THE SEA PLAYS Fringe review
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THE SEA PLAYS (Philadelphia Artists’ Collective): 2013 Fringe review 32.2

Debra Miller September 13, 2013 2 Comments

Eugene O’Neill’s early maritime heart-wrenchers, Bound East for Cardiff and In the Zone, are brought to life in the Philadelphia Artists’ Collective’s devastatingly effective site-specific…

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Keith Conallen, David Blatt, and Brian McCann in PAC's THE SEA PLAYS, part of the 2013 Philly Fringe.
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[32.1] THE SEA PLAYS (Philadelphia Artists’ Collective): Fringe review

Christopher Munden September 12, 2013 3 Comments

With a series of celebrated readings and full productions (including 2012 Fringe hit The Creditors) Philadelphia Artists’ Collective has established a reputation as one of…

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Fringe Preview 8: Old City Fringe

Christopher Munden September 5, 2013 1 Comment

Once upon a time the Old City Fringe was the Philly Fringe. Old City on the first Friday in September was the place to be,…

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Eric Scotolati
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Another take on GLASS: SHATTERED (Renegade)

Jessica Foley June 15, 2013 No Comments

Pacified by a pre-show serving of *Little Baby’s* ice cream, the Renegade Company’s audience sat in a cozy room with broken victrola records scattered on…

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photo by Daniel Kontz
60-Second Review Reviews Theater

GLASS: SHATTERED (Renegade): 60-second review

Christopher Munden June 9, 2013 2 Comments

Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie is described as a “memory play”: its plot an extended flashback, its theatrical pretense laid bare. GLASS: SHATTERED, Michael Durkin’s…

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60-second review: EQUUS (Curio)

Christopher Munden January 30, 2013 No Comments

Peter Shaffer’s EQUUS premiered in 1973, and its age shows. A psycho-sexual exploration of insanity, spirituality, and conformity, it continues to appeal to generations of…

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THE TEMPEST (Curio): Such stuff as dreams are made on

Philly "Art" Blog May 1, 2012 1 Comment

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will…

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“Great Expectations” at Curio Theatre

Christopher Munden February 21, 2011 No Comments

Charles Dickens asked in his will that no memorials be erected to him and so the life-size sculpture of the author in Clarke Park in…

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Conor McPherson’s The Weir: Subtlety and the Supernatural at the Curio Theatre

Christopher Munden November 13, 2009 No Comments

Irish playwright Conor McPherson has been called the “finest dramatist of his generation” (London Telegraph) with works that are “as near to perfection as a play can come”…

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