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New This Week Always . . . Patsy Cline (Bristol Riverside Theatre) Based on the country music legend's friendship with a fan. Previews Tuesday and Wednesday, opens Thursday.
The guard is changing.
After 27 years, Alan Harler is stepping down from the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, but not without first conducting Bach's St. Matthew Passion. Also departing aft…
In the words of the late, great Robin Williams: "Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!' "
The coming spring season of theater looks to be rich and various; here are some …
Philly's gone Wilde.
Clearly it's the season for restless, between-gig actors, like John C. Reilly, to hit the road and showcase their musical sides.
Impressive performances in this taut, 80-minute production probe larger themes than the play suggests.
The Dangerous House of Pretty Mbane, produced by InterAct Theatre, written by Jen Silverman, directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield.
LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - "The Sound of Music," which earned five Academy awards in its 1965 debut, is returning to the bigscreen to celebrate its half century legacy.
While the parks may be desolate and the outdoor bars shuttered, don't write winter off as being a season with a barren entertainment calendar. Between big venues and smaller companies, audie…
New This Week Catch Me If You Can (Eagle Theatre) A persuasive young fraudster relishes life on the run. Opens Friday.
The show ends with a film of a raft floating on the open ocean, filled with assorted characters being dumped into the deep like so much flotsam and jetsam. If you didn't get its implications…
David Mamet's A Life in the Theatre arrives at Walnut Street Theatre's Independence Studio 3 at just the right time. After a month when the world has been awash in horrors, this small backst…
It's a lovely cabaret setup: tables and candles, wine and roses, two pianos, tuxedos, and glittery gowns. In Hot 'n' Cole: A Cole Porter Celebration, the Mauckingbird Theatre Co., specializi…
Penn grad Dan Fogelman's having a musical moment.
When, in 1993, the body of an American soldier was dragged, beaten and bloodied, through the streets of Mogadishu in Somalia, Paul Watson photographed the horror, winning the Pulitzer Prize …
Michael Hollinger's latest play chronicles the tense family dynamics that arise when a man asks his estranged daughter for a kidney that she'd just as soon not part with. Naturally, it's a c…
JENNIFER HUDSON will make her Broadway debut in the fall when the musical "The Color
Purple" returns.
The Grammy, Oscar and Golden Globe winner will play Shug Avery, a sultry blu…
New This Week A Life in the Theater (Walnut's Independence Studio) Veteran actor Robert and newbie John fence and bond in their dressing room in this David Mamet play. Previews Tuesday, Wedn…
NEW YORK (AP) - Jennifer Hudson will make her Broadway debut in the fall when the musical "The Color Purple" returns.
Motown the Musical packs its score with some of the greatest hitmakers in music history: the Jackson 5, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight and the Pips, the Temptation…
You'd figure a $7.1 million box office haul for his new movie, American Sniper, would be celebration enough for Jenkintown heartthrob Bradley Cooper's birthday, but no. The true party was la…
