Tuesday, June 20, 2017
In his banter with the audience during last night’s musical homage to Swing, Big Bands, and ‘The Rat Pack’ at Manayunk’s Venice Island Performing Arts Center, Jeff Coon, Executive Di…
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The life of Eva Perón is the stuff legends, and rock operas, are made of: a rags-to-riches story of a poor illegitimate child from provincial Argentina, whose ambitious determination, seduc…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:57AMFriday, June 16, 2017
Economic self-interest, an ‘inconvenient truth,’ a ruthless politician, a whistleblower, ‘fake news,’ closed-door meetings, a bureaucratic cover-up, the refusal to work together for …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00PMWednesday, June 14, 2017
Winner of five Tony Awards in 2015 – including the first-ever Best Musical honors given to a show written entirely by a team of women – Fun Home, with book and lyrics by Lisa Kro…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:44PMThursday, June 8, 2017
Though a generation apart in age, Norman Rockwell (1894 New York City-1978 Stockbridge) and Andy Warhol (1928 Pittsburgh-1987 New York City) captured the tenor of their respective eras of 20…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:14AMMonday, June 5, 2017
Founder and Artistic Director of Tribe of Fools, Terry Brennan is back on stage this month in the Philadelphia SoLow Fest, with his company’s latest offering School Play. The original one-…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:23PMThursday, May 25, 2017
Since its debut in 1959, Gypsy, which closes out Arden Theatre Company’s 2016-17 season, has retained its popularity as one of the greatest Broadway musicals of all time, filled with such …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:33PMTuesday, May 23, 2017
“I’ve made bad choices. And I’ve made them . . . knowingly,” says 27-year-old Tanya – a single mom and bar waitress in a South Jersey beach town – in the opening scene of…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00PMFriday, May 19, 2017
It seems counter-intuitive that a play about a missing fourteen-year-old boy could be in any way funny or uplifting, but The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, written and performed by…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:16AMWednesday, May 17, 2017
Theatre Exile closes its 2016-17 season with Tracey Scott Wilson’s searing drama Buzzer, which examines issues of race, class, and gender through the lens of urban gentrification. Directed…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:42PMMonday, May 15, 2017
Imaginative storytelling and captivating performances at People’s Light make Dwayne Hartford’s The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, adapted for the stage from the novel by Kate DiCam…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:30PMSaturday, May 13, 2017
Celebrating the 90th anniversary of its historic building, Ritz Theatre Company presents Dream: A Phonograph Musical, an original prequel to the genre of the ‘jukebox musical’ inspired b…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:15PMFriday, May 12, 2017
A grand presentation of Agatha Christie’s popular whodunit of 1953, Witness for the Prosecution, closes out Bristol Riverside Theatre’s 30th anniversary season with a bang. Directed by S…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:17PMThursday, May 11, 2017
In My Funny Bone, the latest offering from Brian Sanders’ JUNK, the boundary-breaking choreographer/dancer traces the evolution of his, let’s say, “eccentric” sense of humor from chi…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:07PMMonday, May 8, 2017
Haunting and primal, Azuka Theatre’s rolling world premiere of The Arsonists, the final installment in Philadelphia playwright Jacqueline Goldfinger’s “Southern Gothic Trilogy” (foll…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:31PMSaturday, May 6, 2017
In the fall of 2010, the Philadelphia Artists’ Collective – the city’s critically-acclaimed purveyor of rarely-performed classics – burst onto the scene at the historic Broad Str…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:24PMFriday, May 5, 2017
The latest offering in Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion’s popular Victorian Theatre presentations is a new interpretation of Anne of Green Gables, playing for four performances this weekend in the…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:23AMThursday, May 4, 2017
If you’re in the mood for some pure light-hearted entertainment, Marry Harry, now making its Off-Broadway debut in a limited engagement with The York Theatre Company, is a delightful new m…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PMMonday, May 1, 2017
“Alternative facts” and “fake news” are nothing new with the current presidency; they led to the Bush administration’s justification for the war in Iraq and its still-ongoing dire …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:30PMWednesday, April 26, 2017
Published in 1915, Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology – a collection of free-verse poems in which the deceased residents of a fictional rural town in Illinois recount episodes …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:52PMTuesday, April 25, 2017
Did you ever wonder what happens when “a duck walks into a bar”? Anthony Caporale (performer, playwright, and Director of Beverage Studies at New York’s Institute of Culinary Education…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:53PMMonday, April 24, 2017
What’s so funny about suicide, cremation, drug addiction, PTSD, and familial dysfunction? Playwright Lauren Ferebee finds the dark comedy in all of that, along with the innate tragedy and …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PMSaturday, April 22, 2017
Socially relevant and thought-provoking, profoundly heartrending and often funny, playwright Camilo Almonacid’s The Assignment – inspired by a true story and developed by Houses on the M…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:30PMWednesday, April 19, 2017
When John Cameron Mitchell (book) and Stephen Trask (music and lyrics) were developing their gender-bending rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch for its Off-Broadway premiere in 1998, the…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:05PMCelebrating its 20th anniversary season, 1812 Productions – Philadelphia’s all-comedy theater company – is now in rehearsals for its springtime offering, the local premiere of …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:11PMTuesday, April 18, 2017
Philadelphia-based artists Dan Martin (composer) and Michael Biello (lyricist) are about to make their Off-Broadway debut this month with Marry Harry at The York Theatre Company. The longtim…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:03PMSaturday, April 15, 2017
A world-premiere musical adaptation of George MacDonald’s 19th-century Scottish fairytale The Light Princess, with book and lyrics by Tony Lawton and music by Alex Bechtel, is the latest o…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:51PMFriday, April 14, 2017
Acrobatic, athletic, comic, and erotic, Bradley’s Bucks have it all and delivered it all upstairs at Franky Bradley’s in their latest high-energy offering. Founded, led, and directed by …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:49PMTuesday, April 11, 2017
For a personal two-hander about a gravely ill teenager’s transcendental reflection on life and death through the lens of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, you need to have empathetic actor…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:02PMCurrently performing the titular role in EgoPo Classic Theater’s Anna – an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s Russian epic Anna Karenina, written and directed by Brenna Geffers – Colleen Co…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:47PMFriday, April 7, 2017
Sometimes it’s easier to let a puppet speak for you, when you know the truth about how you feel will not be well received by your small southern Christian community. That’s exactly what …
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