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Neil Simon's Chapter Two, a 1976 Broadway hit and tribute to the romantic fortitude of the playwright's second wife, Marsha Mason, finds itself at the Bucks County Playhouse for yet another …
Chapter Two
Through June 15 at Bucks County Playhouse, 70 S. Main St., New Hope.
Tickets: $25-$59.50. Information: 215-862-2121 or www.bcptheater.org
This season, two small Philadelphia theater companies staged Broadway-sized shows in their intimate venues. Both scored big hits. Ambler's Act 2 Playhouse produced a chilling rendition of Wo…
Confession: I had never seen How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, the musical comedy concluding the Walnut Street Theatre's season. Its reputation, of course, preceded it. One o…
The golden age of musical theater is evoked in a most wonderful way.
NEW YORK (AP) - It was a tale of two Rockys when Sylvester Stallone and Andy Karl shared the onstage boxing ring at the Winter Theater hours before a recent show.
A little company with big voices, 11th Hour Theatre has won admiration and affection from Philly theatergoers. With a history of interesting, funny, and moving shows like The Bomb-itty of Er…
NEW YORK (AP) - Annette Bening, Jessica Collins and Jessica Hecht will play sisters opposite John Lithgow as their addled father this summer in "King Lear" in Central Park.
In what seems like a monthly new-opera announcement, Opera Philadelphia appointed its fourth composer in residence, this time one with a considerable operatic track record already: David T. …
Known for years merely for being Mary-Kate and Ashley's younger sister, Elizabeth Olsen, 25, has stepped out of the Olsen twins' shadow over the last couple of years and carved out a promisi…
BEIJING (AP) - Hugh Jackman said Tuesday he wasn't ready to give up playing the popular X-Men character Wolverine as he visited China to promote the franchise's latest movie, which includes …
In a Dark, Dark House, written by Neil LaBute, produced by Simpatico Theatre Project, directed by Harriet Power, featuring Allen Radway, Ahren Potratz and Mary Beth Shrader, reviewed by Wend…
Philly-spawned singing/acting sensation Jarrod Spector is a study in survival
New This Week The 39 Steps (Theatre Horizon) Four actors play more than 150 characters in this maniacal musical whodunit. Previews Thursday through May 21, opens May 22.
Little Shop of Horrors, produced by Bristol Riverside Theatre, directed by Susan D. Atkinson, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield.
Bristol Riverside Theatre's production of Little Shop of Horrors is affectionate and fun, and you and I both know why. No, the show doesn't have any of its contemporaries' trademarks: not So…
'I'm such a nerd," said Julie Diana, a principal dancer with Pennsylvania Ballet, who recently saddened fans by announcing that she would retire after Sunday's performance of the ballet…
Curio Theatre's production of Oedipussy, adapted from Spymonkey, featuring Paul Kuhn, Brian McCann, Aetna Gallagher and Harry Slack, directed by John Bellomo, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield.
In honor of Asthma Awareness Month, the Phillies are holding a special evening at Citizens Bank Park devoted to keeping Philadelphians healthy and informed on the subject.
Whether she's acting on a New York stage or riding on a Texas horse farm, Betty Buckley has no trouble keeping busy.
Act 2's small staging seeks intimacy but reduces the scope and power of this musical.
