November 8, 2012
[Evenings in Philadelphia are always action-packed, and we want to help you cherry-pick from all the events and activities going on. On certain days that promise particularly bustling evenings, we round up our selections for the most can't-miss pursuits with which to fill your schedule. See you out there!] Thursdays in Philadelphia never leave you [...]
Read more»November 5, 2012
Love and hate create a combustible mix in The English Bride, a psychological thriller that makes its world premiere at Theatre Exile on Thursday, November 8. Inspired by true-life events, the play centers around a series of interrogations instigated by the discovery of a bomb found in the luggage of a woman flying on an [...]
Read more»September 28, 2012
Fall in Philadelphia means locally designed haute fashion, crunchy local apples and bright orange pumpkins, vivid foliage, crisp craft beer, the re-enlivening of the Linc, restaurant menu refreshes, fall street festivals and — last but not least — the kick-off of a brand new theater season. With the successful run of another Philadelphia Live Arts/Fringe [...]
Read more»May 29, 2012
Theatre Exile’s annual fundraiser event “Cabaret Of The Exiled” is back Thursday, June 7. Celebrate 15 years of boundary-breaking theater with some of your favorite Theatre Exile stars. It’s a chance to support Exile with an evening of drinks, silent auction packages and performances, of both the theatrical and musical variety. The evening will be [...]
Read more»February 2, 2012
Next up in Theatre Exile’s season is Knives In Hens, a provocative, eccentric piece by David Harrower, author of Exile’s critically acclaimed Blackbird. Audience members enter a remote and secluded world where three lives are about to collide. The play is billed as more of “an immersive theatrical event” that invites viewers into a starlit [...]
Read more»November 17, 2011
Oftentimes, the difference between a romantic comedy and a drama can be clearly divided by the predominance of one of two polar emotions: love or pain. While the two inevitably collide, the scales of optimism and pessimism are generally tipped with extreme bias. But for playwright Rajiv Joseph, the dividing line between the two is [...]
Read more»August 22, 2011
Theatre Exile will launch their 2011/2012 season with the Philadelphia premiere of The Aliens by one of America’s fastest rising playwright stars, Annie Baker. The three-man play is set on a summer night behind a coffee shop, where two ex-band members lure a lonely teenager into their world of alienation (hence, the show title). Winner [...]
Read more»May 5, 2011
By definition, loneliness may be the one emotion impossible to share with others, yet playwright Noah Haidle has succeeded in doing just this for the second time since Mr. Marmalade. In the microcosmic universe of Haidle’s one-act play, Saturn Returns, loneliness does not eat away at his characters or chip away at the foundations of [...]
Read more»February 25, 2011
Theatre Exile’s new play The Lieutenant of Inishmore is possibly the bloodiest performance in Philadelphia theater history. Penned by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh and staged as part of this season’s city-wide Irish Theatre Festival, the dark comedy is as gruesome and gory as it is hilarious. The story centers around Mad Padriac, a renegade soldier [...]
Read more»November 30, 2010
“That Pretty Pretty; or, the rape play,” by Theatre Exile, is a show perfectly suited to our times. The play, which runs through December 5th at Christ Church Neighborhood House in Old City, is a wild ride of darting back and forth, crossed story lines, unpredictable scenes, shocking goriness and bizarre interjections. At times it [...]
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