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Hedgerow's MacBeth crafts a chilling blend of psychological thriller and supernatural terror.
Amy Herzog's 4000 Miles is a charming, naturalistic family drama. It has no agenda, no big ideas, just an excellent cast portraying characters who feel like family - which is saying quite a …
Yes, Danai Gurira slashed her way to commercial success as Michonne, The Walking Dead's taciturn, katana-wielding zombie beheader. But the Wilma Theater's coproduction (with Washington's Woo…
The Convert, co-produced with the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, and Wooly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, DC. Written by Danai Gurira, directed by Michael John Garces, featuring Star…
Director Krista Apple undertook no easy task in her lesbian version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet now being presented by Curio Theatre Company. Unlike Joe Calarco's Shakespeare's R&J, wh…
Paul McCartney is on a roll this week.
Not that I want to sound like a chauvinist or a dolt, but the wrong young, doomed lover utters the words "For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night" in the thunderously awful new…
NEW YORK (AP) - Bryan Cranston will surprise Broadway audiences when he portrays President Lyndon B. Johnson after being so closely associated with his "Breaking Bad" anti-hero, says the pro…
You might know Lisa Lampanelli as the Queen of Mean. She's an insult comic who made a career of divulging intimate detail about her sexual exploits and expertly eviscerating the daius at a s…
NEW YORK (AP) - Kate Baldwin's dressing room on Broadway may be small but there's something special about it.
With Eugene Onegin, Tchaikovsky seemed on the verge of creating a different kind of opera, with a proto-Chekhovian manner in which scenes and acts end quietly, and characters behave with lit…
In his latest book, former Daily News reporter Michael Sokolove tells the story of Lou Volpe.
A musical built around songs by the rock band Queen has found a kind of magic abroad, charming European audiences for years. Now, its producers hope another group will finally go gaga for it…
You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up, by Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn, featuring Robin Abramson and Gregory Johnstone, at Penn's Landing Playhouse. Reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield.
New York City Opera's goal to raise $1 million from online contributions on Kickstarter.com has failed, and the company is expected to file for bankruptcy this week.
Number-one reason I never tried acting: the repetition. I couldn't stomach the idea of performing the same lines night after night for weeks on end.
He's done the Bible, felines, operatic phantoms and Argentine politics. So what is Andrew Lloyd Webber's latest musical about?
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Dust to dust In N. Richard Nash's 1954 drama The Rainmaker (the basis for the great musical 110 in the Shade), a picaresque drifter in 1930s Iowa plays a con on a drought-stricken far…
Sam Raimi's "Evil Dead" trilogy finally comes to a Philly stage, and our horror-fan reporter is losing his head over it.
'She's kind of a mean girl," a woman said to me during intermission at Lantern Theater's opening night of Emma.
