10 Dates with Mad Mary is playing upstairs at a favored watering hole, Fergie's Pub. The show was so popular last year that it's back! The post 10 Dates with Mad Mary (Inis Nua): A real piec…
There's a lot of Twelfth Night going around in the Philadelphia area, all different. The Wilma conjures a fresh seaside setting. A dock moves forward.… The post TWELTH NIGHT (Wilma): Beac…
Shakespeare wrote Twelfth Night (1599-1600), one of his few fantasy plays, immediately before he penned his incomparable Hamlet (1600-1601). As Artistic Director Charles McMahon describe…
A crippling honesty and family ties mark August Wilson's Radio Golf, a play that flows with humor along with sharply incisive dialogue and a clever story line. The post RADIO GOLF (Arden)…
There's magic and mystery as wonderfully costumed characters come alive to dance, sing, cavort, wrestle, draw swords, threaten violence, and show mercy The post THE TEMPEST (Quintessence): F…
Introducing Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as "a thinking play," Tennessee Williams wrote to his audiences: "I want to go on talking to you… The post CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (Walnut Street Theatre):…
This show has history. Odets, a voice for his disinherited generation was born in Philadelphia. The post Waiting For Lefty (Quintessence): On the side of angels but not art appeared first on…
Scott Greer has the audience suffering with him, then happy for him. It seems this story could have been his personal history. He owns it that much. The post Every Brilliant Thing (Arden The…
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. The post The Tattooed Lady (Philadelphia T…
Faced with bureaucratic nonsense or official missteps, who hasn't said 'fuck the government' or a more genteel equivalent? The multi-ethnic East African Kenya Colony gained independenc…
Tennessee Williams had been writing since he was a teenager, and by the time he was 30 years old he was getting nowhere. His early… The post THE GLASS MENAGERIE (Arden): Revisiting the fa…
Due to the pandemic, it had been many months since I'd visited the Sedgwick Theater in Germantown. October 1 was opening night for The Chairs… The post THE CHAIRS (Quintessence): 60-secon…
It's a tragedy that more audiences will not have a chance to enjoy the production. The post ROMEO AND JULIET (OJ Productions): 2022 Fringe review appeared first on phindie.
Okay: A drag queen show for children. The post LATE NIGHT SNACKS FAMILY SHOW (Bearded Ladies): 2022 Fringe review appeared first on phindie.
This play-within-a-play about a play takes place on the Bluver Theatre's tiny stage, brightly lit, although called dim by the characters. The audience, up close… The post Watching THE…
A little bit naughty at times, semi-Shakespearean lingo is mixed with a good deal of TomFoolery. The post Romeo & Juliet in a Bar (Shakespeare on Tap): 2022 Fringe review appeared first …
Unless you know Geoff Sobelle's other works, you've never seen anything like this. The post FOOD (Geoff Sobelle): 2022 Fringe review appeared first on phindie.
There are many, many moments that become stories. The post NOT RIGHT NOW (James Christy): 2022 Fringe review appeared first on phindie.
ames Joyce is Dead And So Is Paris was presented at Christ Church Annex in Old City in 2003. It was something else!
In today's edition of my look back on theater from years past, I remember two Thaddeus Phillips works from 2015 and 2017: Alias Ellis Mackenzie and A Billion Nights on Earth.
Kathryn Osenlund remembers two productions of I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright.Â
Kathryn Osenlund remembers two productions from Fringe Festivals past
In a new series, Phindie takes a walk down memory lane to briefly revisit memorable theater performances in Philadelphia and environs.
In recent days of home-captivity my mind has wandered to Romeo & Juliet performances, new and old. But I'm more interested in Mercutio and Tybalt than the star-crossed lovers.
Cooped up inside, with no theater in sight, I'm remembering Hamlets I've known.