The Safdie brothers' live-wire thriller Uncut Gems already has a killer soundtrack, between Daniel Lopatin's atmospheric, synthy score and pitch-perfect needle-drops like Billy Joel's "The S…
Stephen Sondheim is recovering after a fall at home left him injured. The legendary 89-year-old Broadway composer and lyricist, who's behind titles like West Side Story and Into the Woods, t…
All thoughts about a Nanny revival have been replaced by Wednesday's tremendous news out of Broadway. The Nanny, Fran Drescher's iconically comic sitcom from the '90s, is being developed as …
Instead of talking about all the room for improvement in pop culture (once again), let's take a moment to celebrate the strides made in 2019 with LGBTQ representation. On Wednesday, GLAAD an…
The team behind Sing Street are driving their Off Broadway musical like they stole it " straight to the Great White Way. The new stage production, based on the John Carney film of the sam…
The weather is dreary, the parties are done, and your social-media feeds are full of people fixated on dieting for the new year. How will you get through? Alaina Johns shares her tips.
More than two years ago, Philadelphia came together with Monument Lab to examine what our monuments show, what they don't, and what we could do about it. A new book looks back. Pamela Forsyt…
With the third season of Amazon's 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' recently released, Wendy Rosenfield finds the trouble with the streaming sensation, from its casting to the script's erasure of …
If you're going to watch 'Cats' onscreen or onstage, there's just certain things you have to accept. Josh Herren comes out as a 'Cats' person.
In the immortal words of Jennifer Lopez's Ramona Vega: "This whole country is a strip club." And that includes Broadway. Hustlers director Lorene Scafaria revealed Sunday night on the Golden…
Filmmaker Alla Kovgan's new biography examines how choreographic genius Merce Cunningham changed the face of modern dance. Gary Day reviews.
Jesse Williams is a man in uniform. The Grey's Anatomy star is set to make his Broadway debut in a revival of the Tony-winning play Take Me Out, which follows a professional baseball play…
Bramwell Tovey"part conductor, part stand-up comedian"was at it again on New Year's Eve, to the delight of a sold-out Philadelphia Orchestra audience at Verizon Hall. Dan Rottenberg reviews.
No Broadway debut this year was as thrilling as that of Jeremy O. Harris, the young playwright behind the season's most talked-about, thought-provoking new work. Harris began writing Slave P…
Is the BSR team going to take their chance in 2020 to stop being so easily offended? Finally, an answer.
Music-maker Aaron Pond tried to fit in with students of the "masters," but learned he was expendable and illegitimate. So he found his own way. What's yours?
After nine years, Dan Rottenberg's grandchildren are beginning to approach The Nutcracker more like adults than children.
Readers respond about 'The Crossing at Christmas,' a post-Christian Christmas, Handel's 'Messiah' at the Philadelphia Orchestra, living to make music, and PW's take on mental illness.
Richard N. Juliani's new book reveals troves of immigrant stories preserved in Philly's early 19th-century newspapers, and pieces together an often-forgotten piece of the American home front…
The Metropolitan Opera's new production of Alban Berg's 'Wozzeck' too often favors visual flourish over storytelling, but music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads a revelatory reading of …
Ann Patchett's latest novel brings the ingredients of a 20th-century fairy tale to the Philly suburb of Elkins Park. Michelle Nugent reviews.
News of a fatal stabbing in Morningside Park rocked Anndee Hochman's family"her own daughter is a classmate of the victim. How do parents and their children cope with the nightmare of violen…
Another Broadway legend has died. Jerry Herman, the Tony Award-winning composer behind Hello Dolly! and other popular works, died Thursday at age 88, according to The Associated Press. Born …
The new Broadway revival of West Side Story is pushing its opening night back by two weeks after leading man Isaac Powell suffered an onstage knee injury. Producer Scott Rudin told Deadline …
"It's an old song, and we're gonna sing it again." The opening hymn of the hit musical Hadestown offers a promise " not just to the eight shows a week for the folk musical that dominated Bro…