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What is at first funny becomes increasingly uncomfortable and brutal, when old college classmates reunite and re-examine a momentous event in their lives, from their own subjective perspectives, in Flashpoint Theatre Company’s world premiere of THE BENDS. It is a shocking portrayal of the all too common blame-the-victim culture that [...]

As one enters the upstairs stage at the Adrienne one is greeted by Caitlin Lainoff’s simple kitchen set that immediately evokes the look of the early 60s. This is surrounded by a proscenium of a representation of Spanish moss, a clear clue that the viewer will be entering the sleepy [...]

PHILADELPHIA — Flashpoint Theatre Company is closing its season with the World Premiere of Jacqueline Goldfinger’s SLIP/SHOT. Goldfinger has emerged as a leading voice of playwrights in the region, with her World Premieres of the terrible girls (Azuka Theatre, 2010) and Hershel & The Hanukkah Goblins (Gas & Electric Arts, [...]

Flashpoint is one of Philly’s smaller theatre companies that share space at the Adrienne on Sansom Street. The company was founded in 2003 by 5 Drew University arts grads, and was conceived as “a place where contemporary and cutting-edge work could be produced collaboratively”. Well, they’ve certainly lived up to [...]

Now in its world premiere with Philadelphia’s Flashpoint Theatre Company, THE FAT CAT KILLERS is a timely revenge fantasy for our age of economic recession, corporate downsizing, and the worldwide protests inspired by Occupy Wall Street. And its theme couldn’t be more appropriate to the definition of “flashpoint”–the moment at [...]

NOCTURNE is a tale of grief, guilt, escape and survival as told by a thirty-two year old man who as a teenager involuntarily kills his little sister. Such an incident, specifically set in a American Mid-west suburban “blond” mirage, would seem indescribable, yet the story teller, referred to as the [...]

THE SANTALAND DIARIES was originally an essay written by humorist David Sedaris chronicling his experience as a Christmas elf at Macy’s flagship store in New York City. Sedaris first read the piece on NPR on Dec. 23rd of 1992. He had been discovered by radio host Ira Glass as he [...]

First appearing in Let the Dead Bury their Dead, a critically acclaimed collection of short stories by Randall Kenan that take place in a fictional rural community in North Carolina, RUN, MOURNER, RUN has been adapted for the stage by Tarell Alvin McCraney, who at the age of thirty has [...]