2022 Pulitzer Prize winner James Ijames directs the 2019 Pulitzer winner Fairview at the Wilma.
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Pulitzer Podcast Review: STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE at the Arden
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
Lightning Rod Special launches new series of FREE theatrical audio works,
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They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard (1925): Chosen by Committee Episode 7
Join the crew as we talk about the 2020 Pulitzer picks, West Coast optimism, and the 1925 Pulitzer winner
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THE LAST MATCH (Lantern): Set points
Playwright Anna Ziegler drops us deep into an intricate game of high-stakes tennis
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THERE (Wilma): 2019 Fringe review
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
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?
What about Shakespeare do we want kids to like?
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SWEAT (PTC): What’s the matter with Reading?
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
Discomfort is the name of the game here, but to what purpose?
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BLOOD WEDDING (Wilma): Movement in the veins
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
More engrossing, more alienating, and more disciplined than its predecessor.
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HELLO BLACKOUT! (New Paradise Laboratories): 2017 Fringe review
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
A provocative and dismaying story, conveyed through complex characters rather than through statistics and theories
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HAND TO GOD (PTC): The human comedy with sock puppets
What a funny, nasty, smart show.
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Neal Zoren’s BEST OF PHILADELPHIA THEATER, 2016
Neal Zoren chose his favorite productions, directors, and actors from the last year.
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Keen to Feed: Favorite tunes from Red 40 & the Last Groovement
Artists from Philly’s favorite clown-funk band pick favorite songs from their new album and the world of music
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THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA MCBRIDE (Arden): “Your First Shade!”
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
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
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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