Even the most hallowed document is no match for a teenage girl, as Heidi Schreck reveals in her play, What the Constitutions Means to Me.…
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Tag: Jennifer Childs
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (1812): Fall-off-your-chair hilarity
This is not the admiring smirk or a contemptuous Ha-ha!, but fall-off-your-chair, eye-mopping hilarity.
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BROADS (1812 Productions): A tip of the hat to the grand old dames of comedy
Take it from this old broad, Broads, 1812 Productions’ new show, is an entertaining 75 minutes—if you like funny songs and dirty jokes.
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LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS (Walnut): Feeling nostalgic?
Are you missing those bad hairdos and baggy blue suits of 1969?
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Reading Every Play That Won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama
WHY MARRY? by Jesse Lynch Williams (1918): Chosen by Committee Episode 1
Beginning a discussion of every play which won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama
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Philadelphia Theater through the eyes of J. Cooper Robb, Part 1: 2002–2003
Remembering Philadelphia theater history through the eyes of a venerable theater reviewer.
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HOPE AND GRAVITY (1812 Productions): “Even the lightest things come crashing back down to earth.”
There are many good comedies out there, but not many where the weight of tragedy crests and wanes beneath the laughter.
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I WILL NOT GO GENTLY (People’s Light): Third time’s a charm
I’ve gone from a fan and admirer to an enthusiastic supporter of Jen Childs in I WILL NOT GO GENTLY.
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THIS IS THE WEEK THAT IS (1812 Productions): New year same targets
Thom Nickels asks why the same people always get satirized.
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THE CAROLS (1812 Productions): Ghost of past holiday movies brought to comic life
A great entertainment present for Philly’s Christmas present.
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THIS IS THE WEEK THAT IS: THE ELECTION SPECIAL (1812 Productions): Yuugely funny
Ho boy, it’s been quite the election cycle. Thankfully, Philadelphia has 1812 Productions to ease the pain with its annual satirical show.
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[podcast] Jen Childs on I WILL NOT GO GENTLY
Today’s podcast features artistic director, writer, and performer Jen Childs. We talk about the latest 1812 offering, I Will Not Go Gently where a stellar team of creatives breathe life into the faded career of “Sierra Mist”.
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I WILL NOT GO GENTLY (1812): Rage, rage against the dying of the light
The production keeps audience members of all ages laughing with outrageous and suggestive songs by Jennifer Childs and Christopher Colucci.
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Not Going Gently: 1812 rocks with an album and a play
Harriet Power sits on a stool at a lightly stocked semi-circle bar in the corner of a spacious music room a block from the Ninth…
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ON THE ROAD AGAIN (Act II): 60-second review
What better way to celebrate the cluster that is travel but with a charming show all about it in Ambler!
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THIS IS THE WEEK THAT IS (1812): The tenth anniversary of an annual favorite
This year’s installment of the annual politically-incorrect political comedy skewers the presidential candidates and brings some welcome laughs to a troubled week
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THE SHOPLIFTERS (1812 Productions): 2015 Fringe review 2
An uproarious look into the reasons people steal, and why others chase them
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Fringe Preview: THE LIGHT PRINCESS (Tony Lawton with Ugly Stepsister)
The creators/performers of THE LIGHT PRINCESS discuss the development of their adaptation of the 19th-century Scottish fairytale before its workshop production in the Fringe.
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Theater’s Second Sex: Caridad Svich on playwriting as a woman, as an act of political resistance, and for the first Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Festival
When Caridad Svich decided to be a playwright, she read every playwright in the public library. Only one of them was a woman. Svich talks to Phindie ahead of the PWTF.
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