By J. Cooper Robb
Boys' Latin High School Takes Flash Mobs to the Stage With "PHLash: A Mob Story"
To “give voice” to his students’ experiences living in the city, drama instructor Gregory DeCandia proposed they create an original work. “I knew I wanted to explore the teen flash mobs due to the fact that I would be teaching the actual demographic that had participated in these events,” DeCandia says.
By J. Cooper Robb
Oliver!
The London depicted in Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist is a bleak, dirty and dangerous place...
By J. Cooper Robb
The Arden Proves Children's Theater Isn't Just for Kids
Director Whit MacLaughlin says his goal is to avoid children’s theater that is “kidified,” sounds “explain-y” or is overtly cute, overly colorful, attempts to dodge the truth or softens realities such as death.
By Nicole Finkbiner
Brilliant, Award-Winning "Proof" Comes to the Walnut Street Theatre
Set in Chicago, the play focuses on 25-year-old Catherine (Alex Keiper) as she struggles to cope with the recent death of her father, Robert (Bill Van Horn), a mathematical genius and college professor who suffered from mental illness. A budding mathematician herself, Catherine puts her life on hold to care for him in his final years, developing a special bond that is captured beautifully by Keiper and Van Horn.
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- ARTS AND CULTURE: STAGE > Woman Struggles to Empathize With Troubled Son in the Wilma's "Body Awareness"
- ARTS AND CULTURE: STAGE > Time's Running Out to See Bristol Riverside's "Gypsy," One of the Region's Best Musicals
- ARTS AND CULTURE: STAGE > 2012 Productions You Won’t Want to Miss
- ARTS AND CULTURE: STAGE > Couple Reunite in the Lantern Theater's Dazzling "Private Lives"
- ARTS AND CULTURE: STAGE > New Stage City's "Why Torture Is Wrong" Is a Bizarre Attempt at Political Satire
- ARTS AND CULTURE: STAGE > 11th Hour's "Ordinary Days" Captures Drama of Everyday Life in the Big Apple
- ARTS AND CULTURE: STAGE > A Jewish Family Confronts Slavery in the Arden's "Whipping Man"
- ARTS AND CULTURE: STAGE > Everybody Hurts in Theatre Exile's "Gruesome Playground Injuries"
- ARTS AND CULTURE: STAGE > A War Is Brewing in "Our Class"
- ARTS AND CULTURE: STAGE > Fired Up in "Fat Cat Killers"
- ARTS AND CULTURE: STAGE > Lantern's "New Jerusalem" Becomes Theater Season's First Sleeper Hit
- ARTS AND CULTURE: STAGE > "Red" Makes Local Premiere—With Haley Joel Osment!
- ARTS AND CULTURE: STAGE > Bristol Riverside's "Barrymore" Doesn't Give the Real Actor Enough Credit
- ARTS AND CULTURE: STAGE > Actor Scott Greer Saves 1812 Productions' "Mistakes Were Made"
- ARTS AND CULTURE: STAGE > "August: Osage County" Is a Must-See at the Arden
- ARTS AND CULTURE: STAGE > "Don Quixote" Is Back In Action
- ARTS AND CULTURE: STAGE > Theater Workers Unhappy With Contract; Exec Says Kimmel Is at a "Critical Time"
- ARTS AND CULTURE: STAGE > Experimental "Public Acts of Privacy" Is a Little Too Cryptic
- ARTS AND CULTURE: STAGE > The Best of Fall Theater
- ARTS AND CULTURE: STAGE > Phantasmagoria Revives Classic Circus Sideshow in Northern Liberties
- ARTS AND CULTURE: STAGE > Fall Dance Events Not to Miss
- ARTS AND CULTURE: STAGE > Hip-Hop Meets Shakespeare in "The Bomb-itty of Errors"
- ARTS AND CULTURE: STAGE > Live Arts & Philly Fringe Reviews: "Friends of Alcatraz," "The Aliens" and "Twelfth Night"
- ARTS AND CULTURE: STAGE > Live Arts & Philly Fringe Reviews: "Red Rovers," "A Paper Garden" & "Dancing Dead"
- ARTS AND CULTURE: STAGE > Fringe Benefits: Just How Easy Is It to Get Into the Philly Fringe?
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