Dito Van Reigersberg and Luigi Sottile give it all they've got, then come up with some more, in this super-whacko version of "The Mysetery of Irma Vep" at Act II Playhouse. Inquirer theater …
SOURCE: Philly.com at 03:15PMThe Tony-winning "Red" is not only playing at Philadelphia Theatre Company, but also at the Shore. Inquirer theatre critic Howard Shapiro reviews from Cape May.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:21PMThe robust InterAct Theatre Company production of Sarah Treem's "The How and the Why," at the Adrienne Theatre, tells the story of two women scientists, each on opposite ends of their career…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:02PMThe world premiere of Irish playwright Marina Carr's "Phaedra Backwards" makes the myth sizzle. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews from McCarter Theatre in Princeton, N.J.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:28PMThe excellent, fast-moving rendition of The Merchant of Venice by Quintessence Theatre Group at the Sedgwick in Mount Airy is all the more interesting for its choices.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:33AMAn excellent, fluid "The Mercant of Venice" is being staged by Quintessence Theatre Group at its Mount Airy home, the Sedgwick Theatre. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews from n…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 02:22PMThe extraordinary play and production of "Our Class" is in its American premiere at the Wilma. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 04:50PMThe theater, in its first tour, stages improved version of the show Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:02PMThe Wilma Theater led all others Monday night at the 2011 Barrymore Awards, the region's professional theater honors, for its production of Sarah Ruhl's offbeat, often funny play In the Next…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:36AMAgatha Christie’s theatrical mystery, Black Coffee, is like her work in general: methodical and not showy. So too is her primary hero, the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. And the same …
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:21AMIn Kimberly Akimbo, which opened Thursday and is getting a good ride at Theatre Horizon in Norristown, playwright David Lindsay-Abaire calls for an actress in her 50s to play a 16-year-old.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:05AMIt's all a bit much - and a bit too little. Lloyd Webber's painfully swollen music (played with gusto by the Walnut's orchestra, which knows its way around a crescendo, or two, or maybe 70) …
SOURCE: Philly.com at 09:03AMThe Inis Nua production, seen here in April, has opened Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 10:16AMThe Wilma Theater's production of an offbeat, often funny play about the early history of vibrators and a children's show at the Arden Theatre top the nominations for the Barrymore Awards fo…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:04AMThe women have it all over the men down the Shore this summer - at least on stage. During lemming time, the current period when Philadelphians seem to flock to Jersey beaches with an innate …
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:05AMCENTER VALLEY, Pa. - Nobody had a makeup artist in the Elizabethan theater, or a lighting designer, choreographer, or even a director.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 03:27PMJohn Rosenberg's intense new play is set on his birthday in 1976, but has nothing to do with him, only with the era. A week before his October birth, the leaders of Germany's terroristic Baa…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:20AMIn the crisp, fluid rendering of Tartuffe by Temple University's professional Repertory Theater, the maid is a strikingly insolent Genevieve Perrier, who spouts orders and insults in a charm…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:18AMThe Bard has plenty of company in playhouses this season.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:58PMAn idealistic actor is drawing performers to do their thing on the former estate of a trolley magnate in Cheltenham. And the results are free to see.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 05:52AMAt the Wilma Theater, where Alan Ayckbourn's comedy My Wonderful Day starts off quietly and gets funnier and funnier as it plows forward for 90 minutes, I was completely bamboozled - and wha…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 08:45AMIn Lynn Nottage's powerfully crafted Ruined, which opened Wednesday night in director Maria Mileaf's riveting production by the Philadelphia Theatre Company, you want so much to believe that…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 09:16AMThe clever, sweet new musical Sleeping Beauty Wakes, at Princeton's McCarter Theatre Center, is about what happens when science runs up against love.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 08:46AMIn Theresa Rebeck's play, commissioned by the University of Delaware's professional theater company, REP, Mic Matarrese (right) as the smarmy extremist talk-show host interviews Drew Brhel a…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:28PMHaving the formidable Lady Bracknell among us - she appears in two of the three acts of Oscar Wilde's stylish comedy The Importance of Being Earnest - is to be faced down by Victorian London…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:18AMIf the play is the thing but the cost is not, there's theater at the cinema.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 09:00AMTalk about taking on a challenge: EgoPo Classic Theater's artistic director, Lane Savadove, and local actor Ross Beschler set about adapting a 1908 French novel called L'Enfer, or Hell, to t…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 08:49AMI enjoyed A Passing Wind - how can you poo-poo a show that seizes the characters of Sigmund Freud (the excellent Tim Moyer), actress Sarah Bernhardt (Maureen Torsney-Weir), artist Claude Mon…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 08:46AMIn the middle of a whirlwind week this month, Rose Hemingway finished stage-smooching with Daniel Radcliffe in a matinee performance of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and t…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 09:51AMLet's raise a glass to shtick, the little, often unscripted physical stage business that can turn a moment of fun into a heightened laff-riot. And here's a toast to The 39 Steps - the show a…
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