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Tag: Walt Whitman

Literature Reviews Theater

What Peaches and What Penumbras! A musical play concludes Whitman at 200

Thom Nickels June 21, 2019 No Comments

The last big Whitman at 200 event was Oscar Visits Walt, a musical play about the meeting of two gay poets, Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman.

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Reviews Theater

SING THE BODY ELECTRIC (Theatre Exile): Electricity sparks and glows brightly, then sputters

Kathryn Osenlund April 30, 2018 2 Comments

Is there more still left in the playwright’s head that didn’t make it to the stage?

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Buck Schirner and Daniel Fredrick in Mickle Street at Walnut Street Theatre’s Independence Studio on 3. Photo by Mark Garvin.
Reviews Theater

MICKLE STREET (Walnut): There is more to life than theatrics

Henrik Eger March 1, 2015 No Comments

Philadelphia playwright Michael Whistler’s latest play, Mickle Street, shows Oscar Wilde, 27, searching for an identity and seeking out advice from older poet Walt Whitman.

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Arts Features Museums

Literary Legacy: A History of Philadelphia Writers

Christopher Munden April 21, 2013 4 Comments

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth the reading, or do things worth the writing.

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