I showed up at Mauckingbird Theatre Company's The Misanthrope with a combination of excitement and trepidation. Excitement because I love Molière and Dito van Reigersberg. Trepidation because an all-male production of a French farce? I expected half the cast to be in outrageous Marie Antoinette-like drag costumes. It's not that I don't love a good drag show – it's just that I didn't see that combining it with Molière would be anything less than......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Welcome to the next big steps forward in lolcats meme technology: lolsecretz (via) and lolthulhu. Brilliant! Artsy gamers just might want to enter Konami's Design Your Own Contra Character contest. Make a game character that embodies what Contra is all about and you could have your design included as an unlockable character in Contra 4 Mobile, get your name in the game credits,......

Feeling stifled by the heat and the never-ending Menopause: The Musical run at Society Hill? Take a breath of fresh air with Vagabond Acting Troupe. Vagabond will be presenting its second annual New Works Festival tonight through Friday, featuring three one-acts from playwrights Christine M. Connelly of Chicago (To Ashes), Henry W. Kimmel of Atlanta (Saved On The Day Of Atonement), and Marie Lynch of our fair Philly (Throwing Stones). The evening is rounded......

Phillyist is quite the fan of Shakespeare, but I took quite a while to warm up to the old guy. I maintain that making high school students read any of his work out of context is not the best introduction to the Bard. In fact, it was not until I saw a live production of Romeo and Juliet at the Philadelphia Shakespeare Company a decade after duly reciting its lines in freshman English class that......