For the Love of Pig Iron, Pig Iron Theatre Company's fundraiser, only happens once per year, so we're not going to trouble you with a full review that might make your mouth water and your jealousy rise. If you weren't there, try to make it next year. That's all. Highlights you may have missed from this year's benefit, "The Swining": An opening dance-comedy piece choreographed to iconic "scary movie" music (like the scores to Jaws......

Last year's For the Love of Pig Iron benefit show, "PIG FEAT!" was one of the best performances we saw all year. This one-night-only variety show featured drag acts, dancing, music, and the most spirited, competitive, live auction we've ever seen. We knew we'd be back in 2008. And now, after over a year's wait, For the Love of Pig Iron returns to raise more money for the folks at Pig Iron Theatre Company. This......

A whole slew of new listings now that the new year has begun. We couldn't fit them all here, so be sure you follow the jump to see what else is opening in the Greater Philadelphia region. Now, on with the listings! Extremities - You know: like your hands, feet, and the length you'd go to for Hannah Montana Tickets. Through January 20. Tickets online. Here on the Flight Path - It's very noisy? January......

One of the most common, and legitimate, criticisms of the music of Stephen Sondheim by performers and critics alike is that he's not tuneful enough. "Hummable," I think is the word most often used by these critics. And yet somehow, a week after seeing The Arden Theatre's production of Assassins, I simply can't get the music out of my head. It may not be hummable, but goddamn if it isn't memorable. That's a sure......

The staff of Phillyist totally digs James Sugg. We totally dig Geoff Sobelle (yeah, I know, the last two links go to the same place—I saw both shows on the same day). We totally dig Dito van Reigersberg, aka Martha Graham Cracker. And, because three out of four ain't bad, it kind of stands to reason that I totally dug Chekhov Lizardbrain, Pig Iron Theatre Company's latest original work, which deals simultaneously with Chekhovian theory......

Chekhov Lizardbrain Ticket Giveaway
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Performances: Amnesia Curiosa (Geoff Sobelle and Trey Lyford) (Future performances); The Sea (James Sugg) (Future performances). One of the things I love about going to the theatre alone is the ability to eavesdrop on other people's conversations, completely uninhibited by conversation with a companion. (To my companions at other shows: I don't love you any less, I'm just stating a fact.) I noticed a man waiting for Amnesia Curiosa who had led me up Front......

You may question Jill's dedication to Sparkle Motion, but never doubt her dedication to the Fringe. With the schedule she's keeping, I don't know how she's still functioning; and I feel quite the Fringe slacker. But sometimes she lets me accompany her to shows anyway. 'Cause she's cool like that.   The Sea: The Sea is a "rock opera" about a young man going to sea, and his subsequent life as a sailor. Like the......

Waiting to hear award show results? They might not be the Oscars, but the Barrymore Awards, Philadelphia theatre’s answer to the Tonys, were announced last Monday. Both Philadelphia Theatre Company and the Arden did remarkably well this year, each scooping an Outstanding Production award. PTC won Outstanding Production of a Play for their touching rendition of Take Me Out, the Broadway smash about a gay baseball player’s coming out (and did we mention everyone gets......