Diminished or not, it’s worth seeing for the understanding of people living with disabilities and the people who care for them.
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News and reviews about the Philadelphia Theatre Company
EMPATHITRAX (PTC):What tools can… or, should you use to save a relationship?
How would knowing exactly what another person is feeling change your relationship, for better or for worse?
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The Tattooed Lady (Philadelphia Theatre Company): Tattoo as metaphor, tattoo as tattoo
Boisterous, joyful, defiant, and a little bawdy, the show may have a sketchy contraption of a plot, but you don’t go to a musical expecting Hamlet.
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April Roundup featuring Philly Theater Week
We’re welcoming April with the fifth annual Philadelphia Theater Week, and a roundup of other shows happening this month!
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FEBRUARY ROUNDUP: This month’s picks
There’s tons of great shows to see in Philadelphia this month! Here are Phindie’s picks for some of the must-see performances. The Cure at Troy…
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Directing THE WOLVES: Nell Bang-Jensen helms a talented team at PTC
THE WOLVES has been reconfigured as a virtual performance, with the same talented all-female-identifying cast and the same devastating drama.
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Tackling THE WOLVES: Star Hanna Gaffney talks about working on the new PTC production
Hanna Gaffney’s character is the center of much of the action in Sarah DeLappe’s wonderfully naturalistic new play
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Top Plays That Took Place at Philadelphia Theatre Company
The Philadelphia Theatre Company has hosted some remarkable and memorable plays by experienced thespians
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EVERYTHING IS WONDERFUL (PTC): 60-second review
Philadelphia Theatre Company’s production of Chelsea Marcantel’s emotional and thought-provoking Everything is Wonderful is gorgeous
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A SMALL FIRE (PTC): 60-second review
Joanie Schultz’s direction centers on masterful and delicate performances by Bebe Neuwirth and John Dossett.
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Philadelphia theater through the eyes of J. Cooper Robb, Part 2: 2004
Revisiting Philly theater history through the eyes of one of its finest critics.
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America the Beautiful, America the Ugly: An open letter to a German visitor
Henrik Eger considers PTC’s Sweat, Walnut’s Holiday Inn, and the state of American culture.
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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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SMALL MOUTH SOUNDS (Ars Nova/PTC): Hmmph
As far as I can tell, this is a satire, although you know you’re on shaky ground when you’re not sure if the play knows it’s a satire.
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Right Hand Woman: An interview with Emily Zeck, PTC’s managing director
Emily Zeck brings a wealth of experience to her new role as Philadelphia Theatre Company’s managing director.
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2016-2017 Phindie Critics’ Awards
Philadelphia theater writers choose their favorite plays of the last season.
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THE ABSOLUTE BRIGHTNESS OF LEONARD PELKEY (PTC): Just another queer tragedy
If you like your gay stories trite and tragic, this is the play for you.
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How should Philadelphia Theatre Company rebrand itself?
Cameron Kelsall has some ideas for the new executive director.
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HAND TO GOD (PTC): The human comedy with sock puppets
What a funny, nasty, smart show.
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FOUND (PTC): 60-second review
If you’ve ever seen an inscription in a used book and envisioned the person who wrote it, or stumbled upon a note meant for someone else and marveled, FOUND is speaking to you
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