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Gender Transition to Unfold on Stage in Local Theater Series

The [redacted] Theater Company will present the first in a series documenting one person’s gender transformation at the FringeArts Festival from August 28th to the 30th. This Damned Body Is Carved […]

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Arden Delays 2015-2016 Season Due to Pope Visit

The Arden Theatre Company announced today that it’s pushing back its 2015-2016 season due to Pope Francis’s visit at the end of September. But only by a little. […]

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Wilma Theater to Host the Urban Noir Project

This weekend, on August 8th and 9th, Wilma Theater will host the Urban Noir Project, a show produced by Urban Noir Productions. It’s a series of vignettes that […]

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PHOTOS: GayFest 2015 Preview

The play about killer lesbian secretaries is right up my alley! This year’s GayFest, Philadelphia’s LGBTQ theater festival, is presenting a wide assortment of theatrical […]

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Caridad Svich on the Lack of Female-Written Works in Theater

“I can name a 100 female writers who are making incredible work, but where can it be seen?” It’s a good question that Caridad Svich poses. […]

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Shakespeare in Clark Park Starts Tomorrow With Five Free Shows Through Sunday

To sit or to stand? That will be the question at the 10th anniversary of Shakespeare in Clark Park. Grab your checkered blankets and bottled (or boxed!) […]

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REVIEW: Divine/Intervention Is Just That

There’s drama on the stage of Voyeur Nightclub. That isn’t anything new, until you realize it’s an actual drama, the Philadelphia premiere of Divine/Intervention, and […]

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In the Wings: Rachel O’Hanlon-Rodriguez of Lulu’s Golden Shoes

Flashpoint Theater Company is presenting the Philadelphia premiere of Quiara Alegría Hudes’s Lulu’s Golden Shoes, a dark coming-of-age satire that centers around a North Philly barrio […]

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In the Wings: Mercury Fur Star Joshua Tyler McLucas

This week, BrainSpunk Theater Company debuts the surreal and trippy Mercury Fur. Set in a post-apocalyptic London, it follows two brothers who make ends meet by trading objects stolen […]

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PlayPenn New Play Conference Now In Full Swing

Philadelphia is a “new work” playground, so to speak, for theater. This isn’t news given that, back in the mid- to late-20th century, many Broadway producers […]

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2015 Pew Grants Announced for Local Artists and Organizations

Over 50 Philadelphia area cultural organizations and artists received grants from The Pew Center for the Arts and Heritage, marking the Center’s 10th year of grant making. […]

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101 Best Things to Do in and Around Philadelphia This Summer

Who cares about the date of the solstice: We are past Memorial Day, and that means it is summertime. As usual, there are a multitude […]

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Lights Go Out on Sondheim Tribute in Old City

Around 7 pm last night, just before the Arden Theatre Company was to stage a Stephen Sondheim tribute concert, the lights went out all around Old […]

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Lion King Reminds Us We Need More Quality Children’s Theater In Philly

On Thursday night, I walked into the Lion King at the Academy of Music with my wife and two children (ages seven and nine) after […]

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SEE THIS: Pig Iron’s I Promised Myself to Live Faster

Pig Iron Theatre Company has been at the avant-garde theater game for 20 years. For the first three-quarters of that run, the troupe could barely […]