Lewis Whittington writes about the performing and film arts for many publications. He is a renegade dance, theater and opera queen, a jazz-head and a civil activist.
DancePA,
New on the map in Philly is LA dance troupe Bodytraffic, winning over Dance Celebration audiences with a wide sampling of styles. Artistic directors Lillian Rose Barbieto and Tina Frankelman Berkett (who also danced in the ...
Books & CDs
Sean Strub’s resume includes being an entrepreneur and failed congressional candidate, but his biggest achievements are as an AIDS activist. A longtime HIV-AIDS survivor, Strub founded ...
DancePA,
In November 2013 choreographer Kun-Yang Lin presented a retrospective concert with excerpts representing Lin’s 20 years as a dancer-choreographer and so far unseen in Philadelphia many featuring different styles by the choreographer. Since Lin and his ...
DancePhiladelphia,
Rasta Thomas' "Bad Boys of Dance" were back in Philly to an almost sold out crowds at the Annenberg Center, with just enough room left for the dance kids and seniors to cheer lustily. Thomas himself ...
Books & CDs
The Times of London correspondent Tim Teeman knew Gore Vidal as the aging literary lion in winter, a brilliant novelist of "Burr" and "The City and the Pillar," living in semi-exile and harboring lifelong resentments. Teeman’s respect for ...
DancePhiladelphia,
Dec. 31, 2013
Bramwell Tovey, conductor
Tracy Dahl, soprano
Travis and Jaimee Tuft, Joanna Meller, Slawek Roszak, MalachI Osai and Waszkiewicz, dancers
Conductor-composer Bramwell Tovey was such a huge hit conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Christmas concert ...
DancePhiladelphia,
BodyVox
That rowdy dance troupe from Portland, Oregon known as BodyVox returned to their avid fan base at Dance Celebration in Philadelphia. They performed The Cutting Room an ambitious, erratic multi-media dance satire about movies. It was conceived by ...
DancePhiladelphia,
At 83, choreographer Paul Taylor continues to be legendary in his own time, his company perpetually youthful, even when (as in the case of “American Dreamer,”) the dance is sketchy. He is a longtime favorite at Dance Celebration in Philadelphia, ...
TheaterPhiladelphia,
Written by Mike Bartlett
Directed by Deborah Block
Theatre Exile, Philadelphia
Oct. 17 – Nov. 17, 2013
Theatre Exile has a theme this season of plays about the search for identity. It kicks off with Mike Bartlett’s play “Cock,” a scabrous ...
TheaterPhiladelphia,
Book by Alfred Uhry
Music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
Co-conceived by Harold Prince
Directed by Terrence J. Nolen
Production conceived by Jorge Cousineau and Terrence J. Nolen
Arden Theatre Company, Philadelphia
Sept. 26 - Nov. 3, 2013
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