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2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘The Elementary Spacetime Show’
The Elementary Spacetime Show is an unusual musical about a subject you don’t often see onstage: teenage suicide. With music, book and lyrics by...
2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival: ‘PANGAEA’: Interviews with the Cast and Director
PANGAEA, connecting people, life, and historical times through a post-apocalyptic folk opera: An interview with the musicians-actors and the director
PANGAEA: “About 300 million years...
An Interview with FringeArts President and Producing Director Nick Stuccio
Henrik: What inspired you to create FringeArts, Philadelphia’s annual theater arts festival—“a city-wide celebration of innovation and creativity in contemporary performance”?
Nick: We went to...
Review: ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ at Olney Theatre Center
Olney Theatre Center is on a roll this autumn. Their production of The Diary of Anne Frank, opening on the heels of their recent...
2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Tales of the Grotesque and Mysterious:...
In several dimly lighted rooms within the walls of the brick tower atop the Shiloh Baptist Church, Edgar Allan Poe's tales, adapted by Robert...
Review: ‘Sense and Sensibility’ at Folger Theatre
Hey Girl, I Hear You Read Jane Austen; Sense and Sensibility at the Folger Theatre
The appeal of Jane Austen’s heroines lies in their lovability....
Review: ‘Rock the Line’ at Venus Theatre Company
In the program note for Rock the Line, Playwright Kathleen Warnock describes her new play as, “Kind of like Waiting for Godot, if Godot...
Review: ‘Bad Jews’ at Maryland Ensemble Theatre
Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) launches into its new season with fabulous flare, opening with lauded young playwright Joshua Harmon’s critically-acclaimed, off-Broadway drama/comedy hit Bad...
Review: ‘brownsville song (b-side for tray)’ at Theater Alliance
Yesterday at The Anacostia Playhouse, the real world and the world onstage converged. It was like a communal emotion-meld through theater, the human heartbreak...
Review: ‘Balloonacy’ at NextStopTheatre Company
NextStop Theatre Company has been producing theatre for young audiences for almost 30 years. Their most recent show is a sweet and enjoyable story...
Review: ‘Legally Blonde: The Musical’ at Theatre Three in Port Jefferson,...
Legally Blonde: The Musical opened Saturday night, September 17, 2016, at Theatre Three in Port Jefferson. Based on the book written by Amanda Brown,...
2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Before I Die’ at Tongue &...
“Before I die I want to _________?” A serious question that I had to answer at Tongue & Groove’s Fringe show. Before I Die...
2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Bodas de Sangre’/’I Only Came to...
The Duende Cycle, two plays performed in repertory created by Eliana Fabiyi and Tanaquil Márquez, is nothing if not exceptionally ambitious. Comprised of a...
An Interview with Beth Hylton, Director of ‘Our New Girl’ Staged...
Everyman Theatre is launching its 2016/2017 Salon Series of staged readings TONIGHT on Monday, September 19, 2016 at 7 PM. The Salon Series’ theme...
2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Happy Yummy Chicken’ at Love Drunk...
A self-referencing mockumentary on the process of putting together a show, Happy Yummy Chicken is the first full-length film by Love Drunk Life--a New...
2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Billosophy: Life, Circus, Death’
Bill Forchion is an accomplished circus performer, a veteran of Cirque du Soleil, and Ringling Brothers. He’s also a real charmer, with a smile...
Review: ‘The War of the Roses’ at Delaware Theatre Company
Based on the iconic novel-turned-film of the same title, The War of the Roses follows the legendary Jonathan and Barbara Rose as their seemingly...
2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Speculum Diaries’
In the opening moments of Speculum Diaries, Irina Varina’s self-portrait-in-motion now playing at 1fiftyOne gallery, she bashfully confesses, “This is the story of a...
Review: ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ at Brave Spirits Theatre
Love is a battlefield in the vivid, high heat of Brave Spirits Theatre's striking, fencing-match take on Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. Once again Brave...
Review #2: ‘Collective Rage’ at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
“Can feminism be funny?” inquiring minds at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company want to know. For that is the conundrum that connects Sheila Callaghan’s Women...