This week's In a Broadway Minute goes off-Broadway for a new production of Eugene Ionesco's RHINOCEROS with a new twist -- it's in Yiddish. Theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews this product…
Just before 7, an electrical outage hit a portion of Old City. People filed into an Arden lobby suddenly illuminated by only the dwindling daylight and a few candles. Their numbers grew, the…
When an older man and a younger man - each insufferable in his own way - first appear on the Viennese university music-school set of Old Wicked Songs, you say, oh I get it - it's a mentor vs…
A wintry walk on South Street was grist for the latest batch of recruits in Paula Vogel's Playwriting Boot Camp.
It's Sykes' musical theater debut, and she does well as a gravel-voiced hoofer. Her Hannigan is neither the overdone lush nor the menacing life force sometimes seen in the role; she's more...
This year's Live Arts Festival/Philly Fringe opens Friday with a pioneering idea that could become a model for new work, a project far outlasting the festival's two-plus weeks of cutting-edg…
"The Light in the Piazza" and "Becky Shaw," both about troubled women, are the big winners at the 16th awards, which also salute the faithful theatergoer.
The impish, two-ton-talented Tony Braithwaite is an actor who also sings and dances on many area stages, as well as a writer and performer of one-man shows, a three-time Barrymore Award winn…
Things are not always better the second time around. That's what members of the New York-based Tectonic Theater Project found when, after 10 years, they returned as a reporting team to Laram…
Theatrically, when the ropes all work, it grabs you. As a live comic book, it does not.
The Understudy, a hit last season Off-Broadway, where I missed seeing it, is funny enough. But director David Kennedy's Wilma Theater production, which opened Wednesday, boosts it with a per…
If you can spell C-H-A-R-M-I-N-G - and if charm is sufficient - the Philadelphia Theatre Company version of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which opened the company's 35th season…
Gallons of gore play a big part in two plays
The Philadelphia region's four dozen professional theaters will be producing world premieres and pieces never before seen here, plus classics (two local companies make their first forays int…
Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas presents a tribute to his grandparents, Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky.
What's a dramaturg? Good question. Let local theater folks who've done that demanding job explain.
The well-styled declamations of Sam Tsoutsouvas' Socrates must compete with an obtrusive soundtrack.