From the time she was a kid, Ronna J Levy knew that she wanted to be an actress. How she ended up being a teacher is the theme of her original one-woman show of 2012, This Gonna Be on the Te…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:47PMA post-modern take-off on the Book of Revelation, Tribulation: The Musical, with book and lyrics by Molly Miller and music by Brad Kemp, reimagines the Apocalypse through the eyes of a recen…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:24PMAfter listening to John McDonagh’s hilarious reminiscences about his life as a New York cabbie, you’ll be convinced that few jobs are as rife with comic material. Born and raised in Quee…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:09PMA poignant and uplifting three-hander, Joey Variations: A Play with Dance, written and directed by Jon Spano, is a seemingly simple story about the psychological and emotional complexities o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:38PMFulfilling a ten-year dream, the all-female Musical Company OZmate, from Takarazuka, Japan, has brought its epic tale, The Legend of Oni, to FringeNYC, and NYC couldn’t be more fort…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:23PMIf you’re a fan of the fright genre and nostalgic for classic Saturday morning TV shows for kids, Playlab NYC’s Humorously Horrendous Haunted Hideaway will have you screaming with laught…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:06PMAs two upper-crust English sisters of marriageable age in the Victorian era, Mia Hutchinson-Shaw and Natalia Dyer bring new meaning to sibling rivalry in the titular roles of Adaire Kamen’…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:49AMWhat better reason to leave Elizabethan England than to stage a production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest in the New World and to found an indie theater there? That’s the witty premise of …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:49PMTraditionally, one of the defining factors of human civilization is a society that creates art. But are the hand, mind, and emotions of the artist integral parts of the creative process, or …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:19AMPhiladelphia’s John Schultz brings an immersive sensory experience to FringeNYC with Till Birnam Wood, an original adaptation of Macbeth. Already a hit in the 2014 and 2015 Philly Fringe F…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:16PMFor Houston plastic surgeon Dr. Philip Yosowitz, the story he weaves in The Gold, a fictional history of the impact the Holocaust had on one extended family of German Jews, is very personal.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:31AMWhen award-winning sportswriter and radio-show host Ray Didinger was a kid, he never could have imagined that he’d end up helping his boyhood hero, wide receiver Tommy McDonald, be inducte…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:41AMAs a practicing trial and class-action lawyer for 46 years, playwright Norman Shabel has seen the American legal system from the inside, and it isn’t pretty. He draws on that first-hand ex…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:36PMFrom Peter and The Starcatcher to Finding Neverland, the ever popular tale of Peter Pan continues to inspire original interpretations for the theater. A different take on J.M. Barrie’s bel…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:30AMFor his next novel To the Unseen, successful author and socialite Charles Condomine must gather material on the world of the occult, of which he is highly skeptical. So on a lark, “to make…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:26PMThere are more than 175 shows in this year’s Philadelphia Fringe Festival, spanning eleven different genres and covering a wide array of subjects. Two experimental Fringe regulars, Applied…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:35AMTwo sets of twins create twice the confusion and double the laughs in The Comedy of Errors, Delaware Shakespeare Festival’s 2016 selection for its annual outdoor offering at Wilming…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:03AMThey’re ba-ack! If you’re a fan of the macabre clan from the 1960s black-and-white TV show, inspired by Charles Addams’ series of single-frame cartoon drawings for The New Yorker begin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:15AMWhen Ginger Dayle founded New City Stage Company in the summer of 2006, she was a graduate student at Villanova University, hoping to provide herself and other young theater artists with pro…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:54PMTalent, showmanship, and charm—Rob McClure has it all, and he brings it all to Feinstein’s/54 Below with Rob McClure: Smile, his premiere solo concert in New York City. The pride of New …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMLocated just 20 miles northwest of Philadelphia, the freshly renovated Valley Forge Casino Resort offers visitors a wide range of activities, from gaming and swimming to fine dining and liv…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:42AMAfter receiving a classical education at the University of Pennsylvania and graduating with a degree in English and a minor in Theater in 2014, Hannah Van Sciver has appeared in productions …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:05AMDirected by local theater artist Tommy Butler, #theaternow’s entry in Philadelphia’s 2016 SoLow Festival is New-York-based Alex Clothier’s delightfully eccentric reminiscences about hi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:17PMFor the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival’s current production of Julius Caesar, Director Patrick Mulcahy views the Bard’s ancient Roman history through a post-modern lens. Set in an ima…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:10PMFollowing his 2013 hit No Reservations, best-selling author, humorist, and playwright Josh Piven brings a new work to the Philadelphia stage with the world premiere of Muddled, an original s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:52PMSpectacular circus arts meet vintage-style song-and-dance in Cirque du Soleil’s premiere Broadway musical, Paramour, now playing at the Lyric Theatre. Known for its consummately graceful a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:33PMRenowned as one of the greatest actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood, James Cagney (1899-1986) was a proverbial triple threat who could do it all. And so can Robert Creighton, the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:43PMIn the 1930s, when Thornton Wilder was unhappy with the state of contemporary theater and felt that something had gone wrong, he created a metatheatrical work that would become an American c…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:51PMDirector/creator Michael Durkin takes his inspiration for The Renegade Company’s latest site-specific performance, In the Community Garden of Earthly Delights, from the famous paint…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:46PMFollowing its premiere at Chicago’s Northlight Theatre in 2015, White Guy on the Bus, a new work by Philadelphia’s prolific award-winning playwright Bruce Graham, comes to Passage Theatr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:09AMIf you believe that the arts are an integral part of life, and that children should be introduced to them from an early age, then you are in total agreement with the mission of Enchantment T…
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