A long-form interview with playwright Doug Williams.
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Tag: Orbiter 3
All Things Must Pass: Orbiter 3 members consider their finale
In the end, the plays you produce are greater than the plays you don’t
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Theater in Sketch: THE BROWNINGS (Orbiter 3)
The art world can be as small as one makes it, and the codependent relationship in THE BROWNINGS begins to shut out the rest of the world.
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THE BROWNINGS (Orbiter 3): Let me count the f%&*ing ways
In a heartfelt moment, Elizabeth Barrett Browning tells her poet-husband, “I’m going to dip your cock in laudanum and fuck you til i’m high”
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2017 Barrymore Awards nominations
On August 21, Theatre Philadelphia announced nominees for the 2017 Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre. Established companies led the day.
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PEACEABLE KINGDOM (Orbiter 3): Can we live in peace?
A remarkable play navigating the deep waters of philosophy and the shallow waters of adults wearing animal costumes.
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BREATHE SMOKE (Orbiter 3): These are times of change
Williams avoids the metatheatrics associated with plays about performance for an inquiry into painful transitions we all must undergo.
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Drone Warfare Hits Home: Kittson O’Neill on InterAct’s GROUNDED
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.
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Barrymore Awards Nominations
Industry insiders vote on their favorite shows and artists in their community from the preceding theater season. The resulting awards recognize the best that Philly stages have to offer, and also musicals.
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I AM NOT MY MOTHERLAND (Orbiter 3): A different kind of interactive theater
Encourages its audience to pay attention, and compels us into conversation afterward.
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Summer Tailgating: A guide to upcoming new work for theater lovers, likers, and makers
A list of summer pre-season new work tailgating essentials to get us pumped for the 2016/16 theater season.
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A KNEE THAT CAN BEND (Orbiter 3): Love and life in a hot country
In Africa as elsewhere, for queers as for everyone, life plays out messily in small tragedies and little loves.
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MOON MAN WALK (Orbiter 3): Interstellar overdrive
James Ijames’s MOON MAN WALK, the first offering by new playwrights’ collective Orbiter 3 presents a fantasy world and a very real story. And a manic pixie girl.
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Moonwalking on the Moon: Lindsay Smiling on Michael Jackson, Philly theater, and the inaugural production by Orbiter 3
This week marks a landmark in independent theater in Philadelphia: the inaugural production by Orbiter 3, a new producing playwrights collective. Over the next three years,…
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Finding art in taking risks: Doug Williams
“I have hated this play sometimes,” says Doug Williams. Strong words, when you’re talking about something you’ve written yourself.
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Orbiter 3: A new producing playwrights collective to launch in Philadelphia
A group of Philadelphia playwrights have come together to form a producing collective, Orbiter 3, to showcase their work.
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