News and reviews for InterAct Theatre Company in Philadelphia.
With 34 events, 105 artists, and 21 cities, Come to PAPA celebrates the ingenuity and necessity of Philadelphia’s Pan-Asian performing arts community.
View More Come to PAPA: Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists celebrates local Pan-Asian Art with a 10-day virtual festival
Anna Moench’s new, short, fascinating play is not to be missed.
View More MAN OF GOD (InterAct): Worthy of praise
InterAct’s 2018/19 Core Playwrights Program culminates in a series of free readings showcasing the work of four local playwrights.
View More To the Core: InterAct’s residency program culminates in four free readings
Another, brief take on InterAct Theatre’s latest production
View More EUREKA DAY (InterAct): 60-second review
No easy answers, no good guys/bad guys; it’s life as we cope with it, only funnier.
View More EUREKA DAY (InterAct): An infectious satire
Revisiting Philly theater history through the eyes of one of its finest critics.
View More Philadelphia theater through the eyes of J. Cooper Robb, Part 2: 2004
The “one-and-done” premiere problem and filling more theaters through “rolling WORLD premieres”
View More Presenting stronger new dramas by overcoming “premieritis”
Is the Christmas period still a financial savior for their theaters and choruses.
View More The Annual Christmas “Cash Cows”: Cultural demands or financial survival for new productions?
A recent performance of HUMAN RITES, a world premiere production by InterAct Theatre, featured a talk with cultural psychologist Richard Shweder, whose work inspired playwright Seth Rozin.
View More Talkback in Sketch: HUMAN RITES (InterAct)
HUMAN RITES succeeds as a vehicle to tackle such hot-topic themes as appropriation and intersectionality.
View More HUMAN RITES (InterAct): I say tomato, you say genital mutilation
What’s being satirized in this social satire? Good question, with several answers.
View More SENSITIVE GUYS (InterAct): Satirizing the dialectic of sex
What better theatrical vehicle for cynicism than “meta”: how many ways can the playwright fool an audience?
View More BROKEN STONES (InterAct): Searching through the meta rubble
KC MacMillan talks about making the transition from freelance artist to administrative director, what she envisions for the next phase of her career, and what advice she has for young women who aspire to direct in Philadelphia
View More A Woman Who Dares: Interview with KC MacMillan
The InterAct Theater goes behind the scenes of a working kitchen
View More Theater in Sketch: HOW TO USE A KNIFE (InterAct)
A gripping solo play that asks tough questions and rejects easy answers
View More DOGS OF RWANDA (InterAct): We are witnesses
Scene one is hilarious; scene two wipes the smile right off your face.
View More HOW TO USE A KNIFE (InterAct): A sharp new play
This thoughtful production changes how we see the world and ourselves
View More YOU FOR ME FOR YOU (Interact): Sisters in different worlds
Two shows by Philadelphia writer Mary Tuomanen opened on consecutive nights last week, providing a singular opportunity to assess common threads tying together works by the author.
View More Two by Tuomanen: MARCUS/EMMA (InterAct) and HELLO! SADNESS (FringeArts)
GROUNDED is a tale for our times: war is most hellish when it resembles office life, reality is most profound rendered in pixels.
View More GROUNDED (InterAct): The killing screens
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.
View More Drone Warfare Hits Home: Kittson O’Neill on InterAct’s GROUNDED