Paul Kuhn Archives

Film Theater

Shakespeare in Clark Park revisits its theater for Every Everyman

Smalley Bogg October 30, 2020 No Comments

A movie about the socially distanced Pageant Wagon that toured West Philly this Fall.

Podcasts Theater

Reading Every Play That Won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Christopher Munden May 23, 2020 No Comments

A new podcast

Podcasts Theater

Anna Christie by Eugene O’Neill (1922): Chosen by Committee Episode 4

Phindie Podcasts April 16, 2020 No Comments

his week the pod discuss Eugene O’Neill’s fascinating sea shanty Anna Christie.

Reviews Theater

THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP (Curio): A comedy of labor

Joshua Herren November 4, 2019 No Comments

Curio’s The Mystery of Irma Vep requires virtuosity. Watching the production turns out to be more exhausting than fun.

Beth Henley's CRIMES OF THE HEART Curio Theatre

Reviews Theater

CRIMES OF THE HEART (Curio): Deliciously dark Southern fare

Christopher Munden November 20, 2017 No Comments

Beth Henley’s play remains relevant because its central characters feel so vibrantly human

Features Fringe Festival Theater

Fringe in Sketch: I, PEASEBLOSSUM (Curio Theatre)

Christopher Munden September 20, 2017 No Comments

I, PEASEBLOSSOM was a great character study for me. I wanted to keep capturing the many sides of Brian McCann.

Fringe Festival Fringe reviews Reviews Theater

I, PEASEBLOSSOM (Curio): 2017 Fringe review

Dorie Byrne September 18, 2017 No Comments

I, PEASEBLOSSOM is a lark, even compared to its light-hearted inspiration, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Features Theater

2017 Barrymore nominees: In their own words

Cameron Kelsall August 24, 2017 1 Comment

Phindie asked this year’s crop of Barrymore Award nominees about their experience of being nominated.

Reviews Theater

WAITING FOR GODOT (Curio): Highlighting the hilarity of Beckett’s classic

Dorie Byrne February 16, 2017 No Comments

Curio’s designers have created a bubble of no time, no place, in which anything or nothing can happen.

Reviews Theater

ANTAGONYMS (Curio): What are any of us but destructive dualities

Julie Zeglen December 4, 2016 No Comments

The messiness in Rachel Gluck’s debut play is what make it most lifelike. In the end, what are any of us but destructive dualities, fighting between our desires and our own self-interest?

Reviews Theater

THE BIRDS (Curio): Terror takes flight

Christopher Munden October 8, 2016 No Comments

This adaptation by master Irish playwright Conor McPherson finds its horror in the claustrophobic relationships between its four characters

Reviews Theater

THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN (Curio): A light surface has a dark pull

Kathryn Osenlund May 3, 2016 No Comments

Something funny across the surface with dark issues riding just under it.

Reviews Theater

DEATH OF A SALESMAN (Curio): Bringing Arthur Miller to life

Rachel Dukeman February 19, 2016 No Comments

Curio’s production underscores the delusion and the rawness of the lives of the Loman family.

Reviews Theater

THE BALD SOPRANO (Curio): The absurd banality of everyday conversation

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper December 16, 2015 No Comments

Ionesco offers comically entertaining insight on the careless and constant cacophony that passes for communication but is just platitudinous twaddle.

Features Theater

Arming GABLER: Prop designer Paul Kuhn talks about his work on HEDDA GABLER

Kyle Cassidy November 25, 2015 No Comments

Paul Kuhn is perhaps the finest designer in Philadelphia’s independent theater. He tells Phindie about his prop design for a site-specific production of Ibsen’s HEDDA GABLER.

Reviews Theater

THE HANDMAID’S TALE (Curio): One woman’s poignant and personal story

Scott Wiser November 1, 2015 No Comments

A timely retelling of Margaret Atwood’s classic dystopian novel.

Fringe Festival Fringe reviews Reviews Theater

ZOMBIES . . . WITH GUNS (Tribe of Fools): 2015 Fringe Review 18

Debra Miller September 7, 2015 No Comments

The Zombie Apocalypse invades the Fringe with Tribe of Fools’ zany foray into the fright genre, with a serious socio-political message about gun violence.