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A Coffin in Egypt
By Opera Philadelphia. Through Sunday at the Perelman Theater, Broad and Spruce Streets.
Tickets: $21-$136
It used to be that everybody wanted to be a director; now it turns out that everybody actually wants to be a playwright.
NEW YORK (AP) - Hugh Jackman hopping his way into the theater, Neil Patrick Harris licking the eyeglasses of Samuel L. Jackson. A little history, and a slew of genuinely heartfelt speeches. …
New This Week The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington (Flashpoint Theatre Company) The president's widow lies dying, cared for by slaves who will become free the mom…
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The dating game Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts' long-running Off-Broadway hit I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change takes a comic look at love and lovers. The musical comedy revue go…
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Actor Taye Diggs says Hollywood studios hold African-American films to a frustratingly separate and unfair standard.
NEW YORK (AP) - The competition at the Tony Awards is fierce every year, but this time promises to be positively brutal: A fight will actually break out onstage.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Taye Diggs can claim an actor's version of scoring a hat trick: He's worked with a trio of television's most innovative writer-producers.
Ritu Comes Home, a world premiere by Peter Gil-Sheridan, produced by InterAct Theatre Company, directed by Seth Rozin, featuring David Bardeen, Jered McLenigan, Annie Henk, Rebecca Khalil, r…
Jun 06 (TheWrap.com) - Do not disturb Kevin Spacey while he's working.
The property containing the Suzanne Roberts Theatre, the Center City home of the financially troubled Philadelphia Theatre Company, is up for sale at $7.5 million.
NEW YORK (AP) - The digital age virtually wiped out specialty theater record stores, where show-tune lovers could happily browse aisles bursting with cast albums and sheet music. Now some en…
TV stars-turned-Broadway draws Bryan Cranston and Neil Patrick Harris landed top honors at the Drama Desk Awards in New York City on Sunday.
LONDON (AP) - American Monty Python fans who can't attend the troupe's London reunion can always look on the bright side of life. The show will be screened in hundreds of U.S. movie theaters.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - Shirley MacLaine wants the New Mexico School for the Arts' first graduating class to remember that there is nothing more important than imagination.
27, by New Paradise Laboratories, conceived and directed by Whit MacLaughlin, at the Painted Bride Art Center, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield
NEW YORK (AP) - A new arena version of "Jesus Christ Superstar" starring punk legend John "Johnny Rotten" Lydon and Michelle Williams of Destiny's Child has abruptly cancelled its 54-city to…
Incorruptible, written by Michael Hollinger, produced by the Arden Theatre, directed by Michael Decker, featuring Marcia Saunders, Alex Keiper, Michael Doherty, Ian Merrill Peakes, review by…
It's not often I get to write an unabashed rave that's also an expression of civic pride, so listen up: The Arden Theatre's revival of Incorruptible is a valentine to and from the Philadelph…
NEW YORK (AP) - "The Nance" starring Nathan Lane has already been on Broadway. Now get ready for its appearance on movie screens and TV.
NEW YORK - Broadway's revenue and attendance figures were both up this season, largely fueled by classics from Harold Pinter and William Shakespeare rather than brash, new musicals.
NEW YORK (AP) - Broadway and Hollywood stars will help add some glamour to this year's Tony Awards, with appearances expected by Bradley Cooper, Kevin Bacon, Clint Eastwood, Maggie Gyllenhaa…
Chapter Two, written by Neil Simon, directed by Marsha Mason at Bucks County Playhouse, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield.
