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Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia

Bringing you the best stories from the deep and fascinating history of theater in the city of Philadelphia.This is the podcast for all lovers of theater, students of history - or anyone who enjoys great stories with lots of drama!

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48:24

Brian Anthony Wilson

Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia ·

2025/12/21

As a Holiday, treat, the Philadelphia actor Brian Wilson talks with us about his life and career. Brian tells us about his memories - everything from his roles on "The Wire," to his work with the director Walter Dallas, to his quest to perform in all the plays of August Wilson (no relation!). And he shares this thoughts about the state of African-American theater in the Quaker City at the beginning of the 21st Century. For a blog page with photos and additional info go to: https://www....

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51:41

Chris & Louis Lippa: A House Remembered is Never Dark

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2025/12/07

A conversation with Chris Lippa about the life and work of his father, the late Louis Lippa, the Philadelphia playwright and actor - and about Chris' vision to make a real home for the history of theater in the city. Support the show "Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia" the BOOK can be ordered from independent bookstores and at all online book retailers now! Our website: www.aithpodcast.com Our email address: AITHpodcast@gmail.com Bluesky: @aithpodcast.bsky.social Facebook: ht...

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32:49

Encore Episode: The Walls of Walnut Street

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2025/11/21

A reprise of our 2023 interview with Bernard Havard of the Walnut Street Theatre - including a tour of the historic building. Newly remixed, and with a new introduction and extra content about our upcoming episodes of the podcast! A blog post with images from our visit to the Walnut can be found on our website: https://www.aithpodcast.com/blog/photos-for-the-walls-of-walnut-street/ Support the show "Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia" the BOOK can be ordered from independent bo...

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49:54

Interview: Bruce Graham

Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia ·

2025/11/07

We talk with Bruce Graham - a son of Ridley Township in Delaware County who has been writing, teaching, and performing in Philadelphia since the 1980s. Graham has written dozens of plays which have been produced everywhere from Los Angeles to London, as well as turning out scripts for Hollywood films, TV movies, sitcoms and soap operas - but he always returned to his hometown, and where his plays have been regularly staged by local theater companies, and appreciated by local audiences...

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50:57

Carol Rocamora and Michael Hollinger - New Plays for...

Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia ·

2025/10/24

An interview with writer, director, translator and theater critic Carol Rocamora, who founded the Philadelphia Festival Theatre for New Plays in 1981, and was its Artistic Director to 1994. Philadelphia-area playwright Michael Hollinger was Rocamora's literary manager in the early 1990s, and credits his time working with Carol at PFT for helping to shape his future career. A blog post on our website, with additional information and images, is here: https://www.aithpodcast.com/blog/philade...

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55:59

Seth Rozin and InterAct

Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia ·

2025/10/10

A conversation with Seth Rozin, the founder and artistic director of InterAct Theatre of Philadelphia. Seth shares some great stories about the early years of the company, including the tour of Ireland in the autumn of 1988, the creation and performance of the play "6221," and how he has made a career in the world of non-profit American theater. InterAct Theatres website: https://www.interacttheatre.org/ For a blog post about the history of InterAct, go to: https://www.aithpodcast.com/blo...

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52:21

Interview: Tom Teti

Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia ·

2025/09/26

A conversation with actor Tom Teti about his life, his career in Philadelphia theater, and his long association with People's Light and Theatre Company in Malvern. For a blog post with images and additional information about Tom's career, go to: https://www.aithpodcast.com/blog/tom-as-in-teti/ For more information about the October 2025 production of Tommy and Me at PLTC, go HERE. Support the show "Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia" the BOOK can be ordered from independent booksto...

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64:56

Blanka and Pat's Excellent Adventure

Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia ·

2025/09/12

Director Blanka Zizka and stage manager Patreshettarlini Adams talk about their decades of work at the Wilma Theater, sharing stories of their longstanding artistic collaboration and deep friendship. And they agree that "Theater is Music." An excellent and heartwarming Adventure in Philadelphia Theater History! Music from historic Wilma Theater productions sampled in this episode includes: 1) Selections from Eurydice/Toby Twining ℗ 2011 Cantaloupe Music. The full album can be found on Yo...

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31:05

The Wilma Story, Part Two

Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia ·

2025/08/29

The history of Philadelphia's Wilma Theater during the 1990s, with archival recordings of the voices of Jiri and Blanka Zizka. For images and additional information about this episode, see the blog post on our website HERE. The original interviews of Jiri Zizka can be found on YouTube - HERE and HERE. The original interview of Blanka Zizka can also be found on YouTube - HERE. Support the show "Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia" the BOOK can be ordered from independent bookstores ...

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38:45

The Wilma Story, Part One

Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia ·

2025/08/15

The voices of Jiri and Blanka Zizka help to narrate the history of Philadelphia's Wilma Theater during the 1980s. For images and additional information about this episode, see the blog post on our website HERE. Support the show "Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia" the BOOK can be ordered from independent bookstores and at all online book retailers now! Our website: www.aithpodcast.com Our email address: AITHpodcast@gmail.com Bluesky: @aithpodcast.bsky.social Facebook: http...

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28:56

Marcia Ferguson: How the Zizkas Changed the Landscape...

Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia ·

2025/07/25

A conversation about the impact that Blanka and Jiri Zizka had on the Philadelphia theater scene in the 1980s and 90s. If you have not yet listened to our Episode 97, "Off-Off Broad Street," in which we discuss the history of "The Wilma Project" during the 1970s, you can find it here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1721762/episodes/16873817 This is one of a multi-part series on the origin and history of and the Wilma Theater. In this episode, we talk to Dr. Marcia Ferguson of the Univers...

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54:32

A Festival of Music Theater

Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia ·

2025/07/13

Charlie Gilbert returns to talk about the music theater and the many new musicals being created and developed in Philadelphia during the 1980s and 90s. We discuss the founding and early years of the American Music Theatre Festival, musicals performed at the Walnut and Arden Theatres, and the beginning of the Musical Theater Program at the University of the Arts - as theatrical and musical activity up and down Broad Street flourishes. To learn more about Charlie Gilbert and his work, visit his...

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39:49

Memories of the Freedom Theatre

Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia ·

2025/06/27

An interview with actor Johnnie Hobbs and choreographer Patricia Scott Hobbs about the Freedom Theatre in North Philadelphia. In an archival recording, the Philadelphia composer and teacher Charles Gilbert talks to his longtime friends about their experiences at the Freedom, including working with founder John E. Allen and his successor Walter Dallas. Though this is not a comprehensive narrative, we are pleased to begin sharing the story of this important cultural institution, whi...

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55:25

The Joe Canuso Interview

Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia ·

2025/06/13

Director and Producer Joe Canuso sits down with us to talk about his life and career in Philly theater. From acting at the Pocket Playhouse in the 70s, performing with dance troupes in the 80s, creating cutting-edge shows for the new Fringe Festival in the 90s, founding and leading Theatre Exile in the 2000s, Joe did brought a darkly comic edge and a driving energy to the Philly theater scene. Along with the playwright Bruce Graham, Joe helped to bring to life the play "The Philly Fan." In ...

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61:21

Interview: Sara Garonzik and the Philadelphia Theatre...

Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia ·

2025/05/23

A conversation with one of the longest-serving and most consequential artistic directors and producers of the modern era of Philadelphia theater history, Sara Garonzik. As we continue our Season Four, we learn about her early years - first as and actor, then as a director, then as a producer at the Philadelphia Theatre Company. And we learn her stories about how she took PTC from a 25-year-long home at the Plays and Players Theatre to the new Suzanne Roberts Theatre on Broad Street. Plus,...

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60:14

Interview: Robert Hedley at Villanova

Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia ·

2025/05/09

Our interview with teacher, writer and director Robert Hedley - the former Chair of the Theater Departments of both Villanova and Temple Universities. In our conversation, we discuss many things - including his early years, his coming to Villanova, his work with playwright David Rabe and producer Joseph Papp, and his work in helping to found The Philadelphia Company (the precursor to the Philadelphia Theater Company). For a full bio of Bob's work, go HERE. (Cover image for this episode is ...

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70:37

"Curtains Up On Cato!" - Special Episode

Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia ·

2025/04/18

Cato: A Tragedy was a famous 18th Century play by Joseph Addison - supposedly the favorite play of George Washington himself! What connection did it have to the history of America - and the theater history of Philadelphia? This is an edited audio recording of a panel discussion at the Museum of the Revolution in Philadelphia, recorded on April 9th, 2025. A video of the entire event can be found at the MOAR website, HERE. For photographs from the event on our own AITH website, go HERE. For...

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32:04

Off-Off Broad Street

Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia ·

2025/03/28

The story of three small ambitious cutting-edge Philadelphia theater companies of the 1970s. Why did some survive - and some falter? For a blog post with images of the productions and people we discuss in the episode, go HERE. (Cover photo for the episode shows the actor Daniel Oreskes in The Servant of Two Masters, which was being presented by The Repertory Company in West Philadelphia's Clark Park during the summer of 1975. He is having his costume arranged by an unidentified female memb...

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51:54

Americana Jubilee - 1976

Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia ·

2025/03/15

An interview about Philadelphia theatrical projects that employed so many local actors before and during the Bicentennial Year of 1976. In the very place where the American experiment began, regular work in "historical re-enactment" and patriotic storytelling gave young and ambitious Philadelphia theater artists a boost in their careers. This episode also provides a coda for the saga of the Manning Street Theatre Company - a story that's at the climax of our book Adventures in T...

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63:52

Tom Bissinger's Fun House

Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia ·

2025/02/23

An interview with the director, writer and artist Tom Bissinger, in which we talk about his work in the 1960s and 70s, including his all-too-brief term as the final Artistic Director of the Theatre of the Living Arts in Philadelphia. A native of San Francisco, Tom's fascinating life story is interwoven with so many iconic names from the 60s and 70s, including working in Philadelphia with the actors Dick Shawn, Judd Hirsch, Morgan Freeman and Danny DeVito! Tom's 2013 memoir, The Fun House: ...

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