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WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House says President Barack Obama is appointing actor Kal Penn to be a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.
LONDON (AP) - Big news in the comedy world: Monty Python is set to reunite for a stage show.
William Shakespeare didn't write his plays.
He wrote them and a whole lot more.
A new collection of 10 Elizabethan/Jacobean plays is called, provocatively enough, Collaborative Plays, by, pr…
Miracle on South Division Street marks the fourth time Montgomery Theater welcomes playwright Tom Dudzick to its stage, and it's easy to see why his work resonates in the theater's Souderton…
Miracle on South Division Street, by Tom Dudzick, produced by Montgomery Theater, directed by Tom Quinn, featuring Ryan Tygh, Victoria Healy, Marcia Saunders, Mikaela Kafka. Reviewed by Wend…
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Who's that girl Doug Wright's 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama I Am My Own Wife tells the story of German antiquarian Charlotte von Mahlsdorf (born as a man named Lothar Berfelde), w…
Songs Our Daddy Taught Us was a surprise move from Phil and Don Everly in 1958. After a string of pop-rock hits such as "Bye Bye Love" and "Wake Up Little Susie," the bro…
'My dream was to make some music and get some girls," says Berry Gordy Jr. "My bar was low. As I went on, new doors kept opening. I exceeded my wildest dreams."
The original cast of "The Best Man" returns 14 years later for "Best Man Holiday" and Terrence Howard steals the show.
Elf, the musical, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield, produced by Walnut Street Theatre, directed by Marc Robin, set design by Robert Andrew Kovach, featuring Christopher Sutton, JD Triolo, Kate F…
LONDON (AP) - Another much-loved film is getting the screen-to-stage treatment. Producers say a theatrical adaptation of "Shakespeare in Love" is coming to London's West End next year.
It's not completely inconceivable - "The Princess Bride" is coming to the stage.
Theatre Horizon's compelling, thought-provoking production invites the audience to judge truth from fiction.
Act 2 turns this mere entertainment into a bone-chilling frightfest of horror and supernatural vengeance.
Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers in 20 year retrospective of Lin's works with four Philadelphia premieres and a world premiere by Olive Prince
Between now and the first week of the new year, venues throughout the region will present a cornucopia of programs.
Before New City Stage Company's return engagement of RFK begins, Ren Manley's collection of vintage black-and-white commercials and film clips, projected onto an onstage wall, sets the scene…
After Mahler, Jewish composers never turned back.
In earlier times, from Mendelssohn's symphonic rigor to Offenbach's comic lyricism, Jewish composers had little sense of collective identity…
Want to know the second-best thing about Act 2's production of The Woman in Black? Despite featuring two of Philadelphia's finest actors, it never pretends to be anything more than what its …
'The Barrymores are back."
Time and again from the Arden Theatre Company stage Monday night, the return of the regional awards for excellence in theater was proclaimed.
RFK, produced by New City Stage Company, directed by Ginger Dayle, written by Jack Holmes, featuring Russ Widdall, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield.
You're reading this on the Internet, which means that"knowingly or not"you signed a blood oath guaranteeing that you'll cackle at the sight of cats acting like people at least three times ev…
Talking-car operator, one-time mullet enthusiast, and beach-runner extraordinaire, American actor David Hasselhoff has parlayed his success on the small screen into illustrious roles like th…
