Exploring the deep and fascinating history of theater in the City of Philadelphia
Top image: February 1977 - Tom Teti as Lenny Bruce in Julian Barry’s play Lenny at the Cobblestones Cabaret in Philadelphia. Below: July 1974 - (Left) George Collins as the character Brutus Jones in Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jon…
Header Image: George Tynan Crowley (left), Ian Merrill Peaks (center) and Mark Alhadeff (right) sail out into the air, during Blanka Zizka's February 2000 production of Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love. (By the way, in our NEXT episode we will …
Header image, above: Blanka and Jiri Zizka at their new theater space on Sansom Street, 1983. Above and below: Production photos from the Wilma Project's Animal Farm, 1979 - adapted from George Orwell's 1945 novel. The figure in the mask re…