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Winning a Pulitzer, Directing a Pulitzer-winner

Christopher Munden May 12, 2022 No Comments

2022 Pulitzer Prize winner James Ijames directs the 2019 Pulitzer winner Fairview at the Wilma.

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Podcasts Reviews Theater

Pulitzer Podcast Review: STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE at the Arden

Phindie Podcasts February 3, 2022 No Comments

Chosen by Committee podcasters Josh Herren and Christopher Munden tear themselves from the Pulitzer bookcase to see a live Pulitzer-winning show.

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Take a Sound Break with Lightning Rod Special’s New Audio Series

Smalley Bogg March 30, 2021 No Comments

Lightning Rod Special launches new series of FREE theatrical audio works,

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Podcasts Theater

They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard (1925): Chosen by Committee Episode 7

Phindie Podcasts May 7, 2020 No Comments

Join the crew as we talk about the 2020 Pulitzer picks, West Coast optimism, and the 1925 Pulitzer winner

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Reviews Theater

THE LAST MATCH (Lantern): Set points

Jessica Foley November 20, 2019 No Comments

Playwright Anna Ziegler drops us deep into an intricate game of high-stakes tennis

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

Christopher Munden January 22, 2019 No Comments

What about Shakespeare do we want kids to like?

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Sweat Philadelphia theater review
Reviews Theater

SWEAT (PTC): What’s the matter with Reading?

Christopher Munden October 19, 2018 No Comments

Why does SWEAT appeal to us, as aging urban middle-to-upper-to-upper-upper-class theatergoers? Do we hope to understand? Relate? Gawk? What do we applaud?

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REALLY (Theatre Exile): Camera obscura

Toby Zinman February 1, 2018 No Comments

Discomfort is the name of the game here, but to what purpose?

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Reviews Theater

BLOOD WEDDING (Wilma): Movement in the veins

Christopher Munden November 3, 2017 2 Comments

Lorca’s BLOOD WEDDING makes a fitting vehicle for the Wilma Theater in-house troupe.

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HELLO BLACKOUT (New Paradise Labs): 2017 Fringe review

Julius Ferraro September 10, 2017 No Comments

More engrossing, more alienating, and more disciplined than its predecessor.

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HELLO BLACKOUT! (New Paradise Laboratories): 2017 Fringe review

Cameron Kelsall September 8, 2017 No Comments

How can a radically plotless work communicate a complex and controversial theory?

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BUZZER (Theatre Exile): We wouldn’t come here if we didn’t live here

Toby Zinman May 11, 2017 No Comments

A provocative and dismaying story, conveyed through complex characters rather than through statistics and theories

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Philadelphia Theatre Company Hand of God review
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HAND TO GOD (PTC): The human comedy with sock puppets

Toby Zinman April 7, 2017 1 Comment

What a funny, nasty, smart show.

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Features Theater

Neal Zoren’s BEST OF PHILADELPHIA THEATER, 2016

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper February 12, 2017 1 Comment

Neal Zoren chose his favorite productions, directors, and actors from the last year.

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Features Music

Keen to Feed: Favorite tunes from Red 40 & the Last Groovement

Christopher Munden October 21, 2016 No Comments

Artists from Philly’s favorite clown-funk band pick favorite songs from their new album and the world of music

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Reviews Theater

THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA MCBRIDE (Arden): “Your First Shade!”

Joshua Millhouse October 21, 2016 No Comments

Dito van Reigersberg in a new drag persona steals the spotlight in this riotuous, fierce production.

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SMOKE (Theatre Exile): Sexy but unsettling

Joshua Millhouse February 28, 2016 No Comments

Kim Davies’s SMOKE is a dangerous experiment in sexual politics In the taboo world of kink parties.

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S&M, Sexual Politics, and SMOKE from a Female Perspective: An interview with Theatre Exile’s Deborah Block

Debra Miller February 17, 2016 No Comments

Director Deborah Block discusses her approach to the socio-sexual themes in Theatre Exile’s Philadelphia premiere of Kim Davies’ SMOKE.

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