If 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…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:04PMUnrequited longing for a capricious woman of a higher social class can only be cured by a magic potion, or so thinks the lovesick Nemorino when he overhears Adina, the object of his affectio…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:33PMPatterned Oriental carpets, richly aged dark wood paneling, a tufted leather sofa and a tapestry upholstered chair, an exotic collection of art, curiosities, and taxidermy specimens, and oth…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:25AMThe first of Robert Cousins’ four-part series on fictional teenage sleuth Lacey Ward makes its Philadelphia debut with the Phenomenal Animals in a short six-performance run. Self-described…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:34PMWell, actually, there’s a lot to see in Found Theater Company’s latest ensemble-devised work Nothing to See Here, and there’s even more to hear, to think about, and to feel. But above …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:38PMIf you think that happy endings, moral lessons, and the power of goodness magically triumphing over the forces of evil are the stuff fairy tales are made of, The Stinky Cheese Man and Other …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:29AMReaching middle age and beyond has long been a topic for popular commentary on the human condition, from the commonplace that “Growing old isn’t bad when you consider the alternative” …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:35AMWilmington’s City Theater Company once again affirms its status as the go-to regional venue for youth-driven musicals, with its one-week run of Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:42PMIn 2006, Pete Pryor won the Barrymore Award for Leading Actor in a Play for his stellar portrayal of the titular character in Richard III at Lantern Theater Company. Now a decade later, he i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:53PMWhen the Philadelphia Artists’ Collective (PAC) decided to schedule He Who Gets Slapped for its mainstage production of spring 2016, the all-classics company recognized the opportunity it …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:02AMSir John Falstaff would be proud! Manayunk Theatre Company’s one-night script-in-hand-and-beer-in-the-other-hand staged reading of A Midsummer Night’s Dream was the sixth in its quarterl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:29AMThere’s nothing like a door-slammer farce for pure escapist fun and Bristol Riverside Theatre’s production of Neil Simon’s Rumors provides just that. When the show premiered in 1988, t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:31PMShakespeare’s bloody history of Richard III, presented in a stunning production at People’s Light and Theatre Company, is filled with blind ambition, violent power struggles, and remorse…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:39AMA multi-level set of wooden platforms and beams, crates and barrels, chopped birch logs and an axe, a butter churn, milk can, and a jug of corn whisky thrust you into the rustic world of App…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:00PMIf your best friends’ husbands were cheating on them, would you tell them? Or would you tell everyone else? The second installment of EgoPo Classic Theater’s 2015-16 “Season of America…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:23PMWhat’s a countess to do? Should the young widow, Countess Madeleine, marry the poet Olivier or the composer Flamand? Such is the dilemma of Richard Strauss’s final opera, Capriccio–…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:42AMA multiple Barrymore Award winner, Liz Filios has twice been recognized as Best Actress in a Musical for her lead roles in Midsummer [a play with songs] at Inis Nua Theatre Company in 2014…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:44AMKnown for his bold cutting-edge artistry and glam-rock/drag personae, Erik Ransom commands the stage as a singer, musician, and actor, and behind the scenes as a composer, lyricist, and play…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:31AMDiskit (Anna Zaida Szapiro) is a high-school junior and a wiz at chemistry; Riley (Mary Tuomanen) is a senior in a heavy metal band who is failing her chemistry class. When Diskit (“It’s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:09AMFrom the British Invasion to the Psychedelic Sixties, the Fab Four from Liverpool defined the music and lifestyle of the watershed decade of our post-modern era. Rain: A Tribute to the Beatl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:31AMCharles Frazier’s 1997 award-winning best-selling debut novel, adapted into an Oscar-winning feature film starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, and Renée Zellweger in 2003, is now a new Ameri…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:59AMFirst performed in 1836, The Government Inspector–playwright Nikolai Gogol’s unrelenting farce on socio-political corruption in Imperial Russia–has long been considered an impo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:32AMDismal, drab, and grimy, the site-specific setting of Iron Age Theatre’s Philadelphia premiere of Dogfall in the subterranean space of The Power Plant, sparsely furnished with two metal co…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30AMIs there a more relevant topic in contemporary America, while gun control is being hotly debated by the presidential candidates, Congress, and the voting populace, than a look at gun violenc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:04AMSo what if he’s invisible? He’s still the best friend and constant companion of the lovably eccentric tippler Elwood P. Dowd in Harvey, a delightful revival of Mary Chase’s Pulitzer Pr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:29AMOnce is not your usual Broadway musical. From the moment you enter the theater, the inventive staging immediately breaks through the proverbial fourth wall, as you are physically drawn into …
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