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Hotel Suite, produced by Act II Playhouse, written by Neil Simon, directed by Matt Silva, featuring Karen Peakes, Leonard C. Haas, Tony Braithwaite, Tracie Higgins, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfi…
To be Irish is to have an existential dark spot in the soul, an ingrained gateway to fatal despair if it's not kept in check - which is what lies beyond the congenial face of Brian Friel's p…
In the first vignette of Act II Playhouse's Hotel Suite, Diana Nichols (Karen Peakes) scoffs at her own Oscar nomination. She has done Pinter, Beckett, but what finally hit was this "si…
When innovative British theater director and theoretician Peter Brook talks about his accomplishments - they are legion - he does so quietly, deflecting any self-glorification. There is talk…
Ibsen's The Lady From the Sea is not nearly as famous or as frequently performed as A Doll's House or Hedda Gabler. But it does take up the same enduring and fascinating questions: Is marria…
She may be a singer, but Leslie Uggams is mostly unsung as a TV pioneer.
William Shakespeare’s 450th birthday will not go unacknowledged thanks to a yearlong effort by the Free Library of Philadelphia.
If you know only the rich Gershwin music and gorgeous songs of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, you might be surprised, as I was, when you actually see this opera-turned-Broadway musical, curr…
George Gershwin's last visit to Philadelphia, just as his magnum opus Porgy and Bess was leaving Broadway with an air of failure, found the usually ebullient composer talking about happiness…
Clowns, generally speaking, are viewed ambivalently at best. Sure, they're supposed to inspire fun and laughter, and in some of us, they do. Others get nothing but a paralyzing fear. Soon, t…
PHILADELPHIA The oboist gives her colleagues an "A," and the ensemble tunes. Conductor Vladimir Jurowski, sought by the Metropolitan Opera and orchestras globally, raises his hands…
From Broadway's "Once" and "The Wolf of Wall Street" to a very special sitcom role, Cherry Hill's Cristin Milioti is breaking out all over.
Is there a more terrifying line than Mark Antony's in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: "Cry, 'Havoc!' And let slip the dogs of war"?
Had things worked out as they might have, a milestone of American musical theater likely would never have seen the light of day.
NEW YORK - June Squibb recently ducked into a Times Square office above the theaters she spent decades knocking about, taking any decent part she could get.
NEW YORK (AP) - June Squibb recently ducked into a Times Square office above the theaters she spent decades knocking about, taking any decent part she could get.
NEW YORK (AP) - Singer-songwriter Sting's new musical "The Last Ship" has found a nice berth on Broadway.
NEW YORK (AP) - Neil Patrick Harris has given way to Hugh Jackman at the Tony Awards.
4000 Miles, produced by Montgomery Theater, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield, written by Amy Herzog, directed by Tom Quinn, featuring Eric Wunsch, Molly Stoller, Stephanie Walters, Cynthia Raff.
Sam Shepard's terrific play True West is exactly the kind of show Theatre Exile is good at: funny and dangerous and profound. So it is surprising that this new production seems so tame and f…
