K. Nadine Kavanaugh

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• Posted Nadine's PLAF Diary for Friday, September 14 to Phillyist
  Performance: Fatboy (Brat Productions) (no future performances) I'm exhausted, so it's just as well the festival is over. I know, compared to other diarists, my eight plays were nothing, but it was a lot of theatre in a very short time by my standards. And it ruled. Some of the plays were great, more were so-so. But it felt incredibly good to watch live people performing (as opposed to all those filmed people I...
• Posted Nadine's PLAF Diary for Thursday, September 13 to Phillyist
  Performance: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [abridged] (The Marathon Theater Collective) (Future Showtimes) This festival has been full of highly forgiving audiences, even when squeezed into a tiny theatre like the Shubin and given uncomfortable chairs reminiscent of grandma's kitchen. I guess we Philadelphians are willing to put up with some discomfort—and the occasional bad play—in our quest for good art. That's encouraging. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [abridged] I thought this one...
• Posted Nadine's PLAF Diary for Wednesday, September 5 to Phillyist
  Performance: Hearts of Man (The Riot Group) (Future Showtimes) It was a Wednesday night and the crowd was thin. There were a lot of empty seats in the audience, even though there was a post-show discussion scheduled. Theatre tip: The Arcadia Stage at the Arden Theatre has poor sight lines. I was only three rows back and in the middle, and I still had to twist around in my seat to see everything that was...
• Posted Nadine’s PLAF Diary for Friday, August 31-Sunday, September 2 to Phillyist
  Performances: Isabella (Pig Iron Theatre Company) (Future Performances); “The Metropolis Project” (P.A.M. Band) (No future performances.); Flamingo/Winnebago (The Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental/Le Chat Lunatique/Thaddeus Phillips Theater) (Future Performances); Gatz (Elevator Repair Service) (no future performances) Four shows in three days doesn’t sound very heroic, but when one is Gatz (scheduled 7.5 hrs, 8 hrs real time) it adds up. It could have made for an exhausting weekend, but instead it was exhilarating. So much theatre –...
• Posted 31 Days of Halloween: Edgar Allan Poe, Still Scary to Phillyist
  On a sunny, warm October afternoon, we thought the Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site didn’t look too scary. It’s a red brick house that sits on the corner of 7th Street and Spring Garden, looking a little out of place among the newer, uglier buildings. But Poe lived there for about a year, and that was enough to make it the site chosen by the National Park Service as their memorial to this...