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“BOOOOOOOOOOO!!! BOOOOOOOOOOO!!!” So begins THE PHILLY FAN, the hilarious collaboration between Theatre Exile, playwright Bruce Graham, and actor Tom McCarthy. The solo show, a Philadelphia tradition since its inception by McCarthy in the 2004 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, is running for the first time at Studio X, Theatre Exile’s intimate space [...]

The mood of Theatre Exile’s THE NORTH PLAN twists and turns at an accelerated pace from dark comedy to political satire to dystopian nightmare to revolutionary anthem. Before you can catch your breath from howling at the non-stop hilarity, you’ll be gasping at the callous brutality and shaking your head [...]

In 1984, under the Reagan administration, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and his cohorts devised a classified plan for the Continuity of Government in the event of a national security disaster. Under the codename REX 84, the top-secret stratagem authorized suspending the US Constitution, imposing martial law throughout the country, and [...]

Inspired by the true story of a foiled terrorist bombing of an El Al flight from London to Israel in 1986, playwright Lucile Lichtblau’s THE ENGLISH BRIDE, now in its world premiere at Theatre Exile, is an absorbing psychological, political, and romantic thriller for our troubled times. Personal and provocative, [...]

Theatre Exile launches its sixteenth season with Adam Rapp’s intimate monologue play THE EDGE OF OUR BODIES, the coming-of-age story of a pretty and privileged sixteen-year-old boarding-school girl recounting her life-changing experiences triggered by an unplanned pregnancy. Reading from her diary, Bernadette relives her journey from Connecticut to Brooklyn, and [...]

Author Graham Greene wrote two types of books. His novels (The Power and the Glory, The Quiet American), onto which he staked his literary reputation, and his “entertainments” (Our Man in Havana, The Third Man) which he put forth as light-hearted page-turners, merely meant to be enjoyable. I often think [...]

The power of great art is that it can transport us to another time and place, and that’s exactly what Theatre Exile does with its inspired production of David Harrower’s KNIVES IN HENS. Thrust into a pre-industrialized world on the cusp of greater knowledge, we encounter a disquieting close-up of [...]

The characters in Theatre Exile’s Fringe Festival production of Annie Baker’s THE ALIENS are not from outer space; they’re spaced out. These outsiders come from an inner place of mind-numbing inertia and depression. They’re lonely misfits whose silence conveys the isolation and emptiness of their lives. It’s a silence that [...]

Aaron Cromie, Mary Tuomanen, and Genevieve Perrier, A PAPER GARDEN Staged en plein air in the Jefferson Garden of the American Philosophical Society, this original 35-minute tale of love and botany at the turn of the 19th century spotlights André Michaux—world-famous explorer, raconteur, and Royal Botanist to Louis XVI. Inspired [...]

As I grow into the senior citizen role life has designated for me, I reflect on the subjects of SATURN RETURNS often.  This is a memory play, filled with the difficulty of saying goodbye to some of the important times of your life and living with the thoughts that remain.   [...]

The lengths to which one will take use of violence in asserting one’s passions seems quite adequately addressed in Theatre Exile’s blood-infused production of THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE. This fifth in a series of eight plays as part of this year’s Philadelphia Irish Theatre Festival is written by Martin McDonagh. [...]

Tonight’s performance of Theatre Exile’s production of THAT PRETTY PRETTY; OR THE RAPE PLAY by Sheila Callaghan had the juice, chutzpah, guts, gall, audacity, and, forgive a chauvinistic term, “balls,” to make you squirm, gasp, giggle and laugh as it hammered its message home.   When two strippers, Agnes and Valerie, modeled [...]