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LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - While there are several possible good reasons to remake the Depression-set musical "Annie" in 2014, none of them seem to have informed Will Gluck's overblown yet …
Yo, have you seen District Attorney Seth Williams lately?
The 47-year-old looks lean and buff. He's dropped 45 pounds - and he did it in just 100 days.
Turning a movie into a musical is one thing. But turning a beloved cult film like Diner into a musical? You risk a run-in with fans who can quote at length their favorite lines from the 1982…
LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - It was a night of celebration for the cast of the Disney-produced musical "Into The Woods," at the world premiere at the Ziegfield on Monday.
NEW YORK - As guests go, in the megastar-driven dinner party that Broadway has become, Bradley Cooper makes for respectful, well-disciplined company.
The composer usually is first to come aboard, even in the most unconventional operas. However, the appointment of Opera Philadelphia's now-in-process ANDY: A Popera composer Dan Visconti was…
New This Week Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Quintessence Theatre Group) Bored little Alice tumbles down the rabbit hole into a topsy-turvy world. Previews Wednesday-Friday, opens Saturda…
Parsons Dance turns Bach on its head, moves to Miles Davis, dazzles in strobe light.
So, how did Peter Pan Live! do?
As you'll recall, NBC's hallowed stage show, made famous in live-on-TV performances by Mary Martin as Peter and Cyril Ritchard as Captain Hook, was resurrecte…
A holiday-themed musical comedy in New Hope provides the antidote to the sweetness and light of the season.
As retold by the Arden Theatre's favorite children's playwright, Charles Hay, Beauty and the Beast is a scary, sparely staged story about a family literally and figuratively adrift upon a ro…
NEW YORK (AP) - The boy who refused to grow up: It sounds like men today in this youth-obsessed culture. But nearly a century before his name found its way into pop psychology, Peter Pan was…
Local audiences will be fortunate to be offered two plays by John Patrick Shanley this winter: Outside Mullingar, a delectable Irish romance now in previews at Philadelphia Theatre Company, …
Lindsay Lohan brought the curtain down on her West End run on Saturday night and hinted she is already planning her next stage role.
It's a neat trick. Fulfill retrograde girlish fantasies (tall, handsome, rich prince whisks you away from your dreary chores and your lousy dresses), while also pandering to the demands of c…
NEW YORK - Next time you're seeing a show in New York, here's a new diversion while you're waiting for curtains to go up and people around you to, please, turn off their cellphones.
If I could change one thing about the Media Theatre's spectacularly sung production of Les Miserables, I'd give them $20,000 to spend on sets.
In many ways, Lantern Theater's current remount of its 2006 success, QED, adds up. Following its knockout production of Arcadia, Tom Stoppard's gorgeous examination of physics and everything…
There's stronger meaning as well as magic now, in Rodgers and Hammerstein's fairy tale musical.
Rare is the musical created specifically for television.
The Matter of Frank Schaefer, written and produced by Curio Theatre Company, featuring Paul Kuhn, Aetna Gallagher, directed by Gay Carducci, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield.
New This Week Cinderella (Academy of Music) This touring production features the original Rodgers and Hammerstein songs, an updated book, lavish costumes and (spoiler alert) a happy ending! …
Three previously unknown Oscar Wilde items have surfaced in the Free Library of Philadelphia's rare-book collection and are being greeted by scholars and aficionados as perhaps one of the mo…
