Arlington boy who went to the Big City returns home to tell the tale of hitting it big!

Join us at AFD Theater for a special event!
SUNDAY, October 27, 2pm
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Peter Filichia grew up in Arlington, and taught at Arlington High School for a while before he headed to the Big Apple to become a successful theater critic and author.

He's coming back to tell us all about it! Please join us for a lively afternoon.

So what’s it like to be a theater critic? Is it really fun to attend the theater night after night after night after night? Peter has been attending theater consistently for the last half-century, and has been a reviewer from more than half that time.

Filichia has seen theater in 42 states and 14 foreign countries, and has managed to see as many as 365 stage shows in a single year. He will, God willing, soon see his 10,000th stage show.

One of those was Spaulding Gray’s one-man show, A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN THEATER. Gray simply sat at a table and held a bunch of oversized index cards. He pulled out a card at random, and would tell a story based on the title of the show printed on that card.Gray died in 2004. Filichia reasoned that the show should not go with him – but should go on. And so, he’s created his own version of A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN THEATER. He’s got quite a few index cards from which to choose.