Saturday, October 8, 2011
This year's Barrymore Awards, honoring the best in Philadelphia area theater in the 2010-2011 season, were presented on Monday night at a ceremony at the Walnut Street Theatre. Her…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 04:08PMFriday, October 7, 2011
Christie's 1930 play "Black Coffee" contains nearly all the ingredients that have made her work so popular ... Villanova Theatre is presenting a production of Shakespeare's The "Comedy of Er…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:42PMThursday, September 22, 2011
Theatre Horizon's new production isn't perfect, but for the most part it's a lighthearted and appealing romp. And at its center is a marvelous performance by Maureen Torsney-Weir that makes …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:42PMTuesday, September 20, 2011
At the Walnut Street Theatre through October 23, you can catch a good production of a lousy show, Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Aspects of Love." It's a musical that works hard to create a romantic…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:58PMWednesday, September 14, 2011
"The Devil and Mr. Punch," "The Aliens," and "Carthaginians."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:10PMA.R. Gurney's tale of a dog and her owners blends a clever approach with recognizable situations and characters, and, for the most part, the dialogue and the plot feel natural and believable.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:08PMWednesday, September 7, 2011
"Elephant Room," "A Paper Garden" and "In the Blood."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:45AM"Twelfth Night," "Lady M," and "How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:43AMFriday, September 2, 2011
After a dozen years of serving up gag-a-minute comedies, "The Good Doctor" was something else altogether: a series of sketches adapted from Anton Chekhov short stories.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:15PMWednesday, August 10, 2011
Last summer, the Classical Acting Academy of the Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre presented a vibrant, exciting version of Henry V that was one of the season's highlights. This summer, a new…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:41PMMonday, August 1, 2011
Erin spoke to me about “Broadway Saturdays,” her upcoming movies, raising two girls, and other things that keep her busy and happy.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMPhoto coverage of this year's awards honoring the best of the Philadelphia theater scene.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMTuesday, July 26, 2011
Norristown's Theatre Horizon is presenting its annual Shakespeare in the Park series, once again performed in various public parks throughout suburban Philadelphia. This year's offering is A…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:46PMSaturday, July 16, 2011
The show is about relationships�why men and women are different and why they see the world differently.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:47PMTuesday, July 5, 2011
In Long Story Short, comedian Colin Quinn aims to prove that, despite what you may have heard, the world is not in decline; human nature has always been the same throughout history. There's …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:05PMFriday, June 10, 2011
At first, Willey's biggest problem is how to deal with a Russian (Jeff Berry) who is apparently a graduate of the Basil Fawlty School for Bumbling Foreign Waiters. But then we learn that Wil…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:17PMFriday, June 3, 2011
Imagine Wile E. Coyote as played by Paul Lynde, and you may get an idea of what Kemp is like. (Except Messrs. Lynde and Coyote were much funnier.)
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:05PMThursday, May 19, 2011
Art, Yasmina Reza's comedy about three friends and the artwork that comes between them, has been a staple of stages worldwide for over a decade now, and it's easy to see why: it's funny, it …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:46AMSaturday, May 14, 2011
Rob McClure, fresh off his winning lead performances in Amadeus at the Walnut and Where's Charley? at City Center Encores!, once again shows off his singular talent for clowning. His tuxedo-…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:05AMMonday, May 9, 2011
At Bristol Riverside Theatre, this spring's musical attraction is Little Women, an adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel which had a Broadway run in 2005. BRT's production is bless…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:43PMSunday, May 8, 2011
Hell is a new stage version of a 1908 novel by Henri Barbusse which was one of the biggest selling and most celebrated French novels of its age. But whatever power it may have had on the pag…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:30AMTuesday, April 26, 2011
Theatre Horizon's production isn't without its bumps, but it works, thanks largely to a well-written script and two excellent lead performances.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:28AMSaturday, April 23, 2011
Amaryllis Theatre Company's production is blessed by several strong performances. But for every poetic, lyrical speech in Solis' play, there's another that is embarrassingly overwritten. And…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:07AMWednesday, April 13, 2011
The first act works better than the second, but both acts are well-crafted and rewarding, skillfully balancing comedy with tragedy and benefitting from complex, fully-developed characters an…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:14PMMonday, April 11, 2011
Martinez has a lot to say, and says it quite well—but so many of the speeches are fraught with meaning and symbolism that the play's efforts to tell us something important can seem obvious…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:13AMSaturday, April 9, 2011
According to Leo Tolstoy, "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Andrew Bovell's play Speaking in Tongues seems determined to prove virtually the opp…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01AMTuesday, April 5, 2011
Irish playwright Sebastian Barry's The Pride of Parnell Street walks a fine line between brutality and sentimentality, viewing Ireland's problems through the prism of a troubled married coup…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:52PMSaturday, April 2, 2011
Losing the Shore is a new play by Catherine Rush which asks the question, "In 1953, when the then-recently defeated presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson boarded an ocean liner to take a cr…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:39AMJeff Key was 34 years old when he enlisted in the Marines in 2000, driven by his patriotism and outraged by the attack on the USS Cole. Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for that attack, yet w…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:38AMMonday, November 22, 2010
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SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 06:44AMTuesday, October 6, 2009
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