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Fringe Picks: Daniel Student gives his shameless plugs and insider tips

Daniel Student August 18, 2014 No Comments

Plays and Players Theatre is host to x shows in this year’s Philadelphia Fringe Festival and the upstairs bar is a regular after-show spot for Fringe performers, so Daniel Student, artistic director of the resident theater company, has his finger on the festival pulse. Daniel told Phindie what he’s looking forward to this year, at P&P and beyond.

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Arlen Hancock in Ellie Brown's DEAR DIARY, BYE. Photo: Ellie Brown.
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DEAR DIARY, BYE (Ellie Brown): Schoolyard scraps and crushes galore

Julius Ferraro April 2, 2014 No Comments

And maybe that’s what makes Ellie Brown’s DEAR DIARY, BYE such a fascinating show. The play, directed by Seth Reichgott, presents her 1984 diary. Brown wasn’t so different from any other ten year old – she liked boys, she got sick of her parents, she was teased, and she liked more boys. There’s a pleasure in this kind of uncensored presentation, a la Nature Theater of Oklahoma.

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Seth Reichgott and Earnest L. Phillips in ADDRESS UNKNOWN.
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ADDRESS UNKNOWN (Meadowbrook Productions): Letters from the edge of history

Christopher Munden November 10, 2013 No Comments

Reading history is like watching a familiar play: the fascinating thing is that the characters don’t know what’s going to happen. But sometimes you come across a work of fiction written on the cusp of great historical events imbued with a clear sighted vision of how the epoch is unfolding. Adapted by Frank Dunlop from a 1938 novella by Kathrine Kressman Taylor, ADDRESS UNKNOWN is one such work.

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