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ENGLEWOOD, N.J. (AP) - Sheila MacRae , a veteran stage, film and TV performer best known for playing Alice Kramden in the 1960s re-creation of "The Honeymooners," has died. She was 92.
Pennsylvania Ballet gave an encore of a signature work and added another Balanchine ballet to its repertoire for its opening Thursday night at the Academy of Music. Both were part of the com…
The last time choreographer Doug Elkins appeared in Philadelphia five years ago, he brought his hit "Fraulein Maria," a delightful frolic. The two frothy pieces he offers for the D…
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A popular satirical musical about Mormon missionaries will play next year in Salt Lake City, just down the street from the worldwide headquarters of the faith it's mock…
Ferocious, funny, a Broadway belter, a cabaret icon - and a crank, a terror, a delight - Elaine Stritch has been a fixture of the New York theater and music scenes forever. Before forever.
NEW YORK (AP) - Teyve is coming back.
NEW YORK (AP) - Tony-winning Idina Menzel - or Adele Dazeem if you're John Travolta - is enjoying massive success with "Let It Go" from the animated film "Frozen," but the entertainer is sti…
The Mystery of Irma Vep, produced by Hedgerow Theatre, directed by Jared Reed, written by Charles Ludlam, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield.
The New York Times let us know earlier this week that the Philly accent is fading out, and last week we found out that Philly is highly underrepresented in our entertainment. Proving once ag…
Charles Ludlam's The Mystery of Irma Vep is one of those shows that, since its 1984 Ridiculous Theatre Company premiere, has become an evergreen, suitable for every company, everywhere. It's…
Philadelphia Dance Project's international dance pairing of Philly's Nora Gibson and Ireland's John Scott.
Circle Mirror Transformation, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield, produced by Theatre Horizon, directed by Matthew Decker, written by Annie Baker, featuring Emilie Krause, Nancy Boykin, David Bard…
In an effort to boost the diversity and size of its audience, the Wilma Theater is slashing the price of most tickets to $25 - about twice the cost of most movie tickets.
Jane Austen has handily overtaken pretty much everybody among staged romantic comedies, not just because she helped codify the form, but because nobody (still) does it better.
Southern Gothic playwriting in Philadelphia theater has no better friend or practitioner than Jacqueline Goldfinger. Since her arrival in 2008, the Tallahassee, Fla., native - who came here …
Bittersweet Philly POPS concert tributes to Marvin Hamlisch will underscore what could have been ours.
People's Light's fine cast and creative choreography enhance this delightful adaptation of Jane Austen's definitive romcom.
New This Week Hinckley (New City Stage) He was obsessed with Jodie Foster and tried to kill Ronald Reagan. A new play, part of New City's presidential season. Previews Thursday, Friday, open…
Among operagoers, Prince Igor is one of those titles that you're sure you know. Orchestral excerpts turn up in light symphonic music. Aleksandr Borodin tunes adapted into pop songs for the m…
Rick Shiomi has come from Minnesota’s Twin Cities in hopes of helping to create a local Asian-American theater community.
A Philadelphia Historical Commission panel granted preliminary approval Thursday to a Florida entertainment company to demolish the Boyd Theater's lavish art deco auditorium, despite an anon…
Mamma Mia!, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield, produced by Broadway at the Academy/Kimmel Center.
If we're judging strictly by box office numbers, Mamma Mia! marks a watershed for women in theater. Produced, written, and directed by women, since its 1999 London premiere the show has been…
The settlement will create a playwrighting award in Hoffman's honor.
