>>>Philadelphia Weekly‘s J. Cooper Robb hooks you up with three solid picks for free theater. This week you’ve got PlayPenn starting tomorrow, and Shakespeare in Clark Park’s Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Pig Iron’s Alex Torra, starting Wednesday. Then in August, Shakespeare goes to Rittenhouse Square with Philadelphia Shakespeare Theater’s Classical Acting Academy production of The Comedy of Errors, directed by Rosemary Hay (whose REV Theatre Company will mount The Carthaginians at Laurel Hill Cemetery and in the cemetery of Gloria Dei (Old Swede’s) Church at the 2011 Philly Fringe).

>>>Speaking of Pig Iron, did you read A.D. Amorosi’s lovely piece for the Inquirer on the Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training? If not, do so now.

–Nicholas Gilewicz