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Comedienne Tina Fey fired her composer husband Jeff Richmond as her vocal coach as she prepared to audition for Into the Woods.
Jul 30 (TheWrap.com) - Allison Williams will take to the air as Peter Pan for NBC.
Nellie McKay - singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, author, stand-up comedian, performance artist - often is seen as an unorthodox entertainer. And her new show will do nothing to chan…
Kristen Bell took a swing at the minimum wage debate with some humor.
If anyone is having a Best Decade Ever, it's composer Robert Lopez.
Along with 2013's powerhouse Frozen ($1.2 billion worldwide box office, the highest-grossing animated film ever) for whic…
Audra McDonald, 44, who plays Billie Holiday in the Broadway show Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, says she has some insight into the troubled Holiday's psyche, having suffered from depres…
The Come Together Festival includes mixed programs from Wednesday through Sunday, with Nora Gibson's geometric ballet, Rennie Harris Puremovement hip-hop, and Brian Sanders' Junk's physical …
If you're lucky, you can score a ticket to "Book of Mormon" for a mere $27.
Philadelphia is loaded with small dance companies, as anyone who has ever been to Fringe knows. These troupes rarely get to perform in fancy theaters, and it takes a lot of motivation for au…
The Pennsylvania Ballet has hired a new artistic director: Ángel Corella, a former principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre.
The Spanish-born Corella, 38, whose appointment was ap…
With the Come Together Festival presenting five nights of dance and the city celebrating the annual Philadelphia Dance Day with free workshops, performances, and a massive dance party on Sat…
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - The irresistibly gothic side of Shakespeare's Macbeth arrived in stark, stylish form in Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival's newly minted production, occupying a Germanic ind…
NEW HOPE - With its smart, glamorous casting, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike was a fun but somewhat rackety outing Saturday in its opening weekend at Bucks County Playhouse. The script …
In a series of incremental steps over the past few years, the Kimmel Center has changed its physical campus to reflect a revamping of its original mission.
New This Week Didn't Your Father Have This Talk With You? (Act II Playhouse) Tony Braithwaite relives the horrors of teaching middle-school boys sex ed. Opens Thursday.
Jul 19 (TheWrap.com) - Neil Patrick Harris may be on his way to the "Freak Show." The "How I Met Your Mother" alum had mentioned during an appearance on EW Radio that he had asked creator Ry…
Martin Grupp, the percussionist who provided the stuttering pulse for the Drifters' "On Broadway" and later went on to become the musical contractor for a hit Broadway show, died July 16 at …
Braff raised $3 million to fund the film about a father whose dream of being an actor starts to grate on his family.
Jul 17 (TheWrap.com) - Legendary stage and screen actress Elaine Stritch has died at the age of 89, according to media reports. The Tony and Emmy winner died in her home in Birmingham, Mich.
Its finances are precarious, the mortgage is in foreclosure. Real estate agents are busily showing its home to potential buyers. A possible savior - Philadelphia's Roberts family - might off…
NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - "Breaking Bad" star Bryan Cranston will return to television for "All the Way," an HBO Films adaptation of Robert Schenkkan's Tony-winning play that will be executiv…
Producers have announced that they will pull the plug on the show Aug. 17.
On May 2, John Miles began the evening swathed in blue plastic, belting out Velvet Underground lyrics, and quoting Andy Warhol ("Oh wow! Oh gee!") at a pop-up performance with the …
