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Bunny Bunny, written by Alan Zweibel, produced by 1812 Productions, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield. Directed by Noah Herman, featuring Leah Walton as Gilda Radner, Matt Pfeiffer as Alan Zweibe…
Critics since the birth of Broadway have asked what makes for the perfect musical.
How about a leading man who cuts off his hand with a chainsaw, plugs his stump into the handle, and uses it…
Is old-fashioned theater necessarily out-of-date theater? The answer in the People's Light & Theatre Company production of The Rainmaker, which plays in Malvern, through Oct. 13, prompts a c…
ACTRESS SHERYL Lee Ralph, who's best known for her role in Broadway's "Dreamgirls," believes every woman should feel like a dream girl.
Here's another cute gush heard around the nation Sunday evening during the Emmy broadcast.
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In the hood West Philadelphia playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes is not only a Pulitzer Prize-winner; her 2008 musical In the Heights, written with Lin-Manuel Miranda, won a Tony …
Miles and Ellie, a new play by Don Zolidis, has just the sort of script the Montgomery Theater loves: a rom-com trading in the difficult relationships and dysfunctional family dynamics of th…
Two vastly different dance works opening Thursday as part of the Fringe Festival's final weekend.
Miles and Ellie, by Don Zolidis, produced by Montgomery Theater, directed by Tom Quinn, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield. Featuring Rachel Brennan, Jessica Bedford, Sean Close, Gerri Weagraff, T…
The Philadelphia Orchestra is full of part-time chamber ensembles - and that's not changing with the discontinuation of its Perelman Theater series devoted to the medium in which most compos…
Director Kathryn MacMillan is staging the lesser-known Jane Austen novel, "Emma," at Philly's Lantern Theatre.
NEW YORK (AP) - Singer-songwriter Sting's new musical "The Last Ship" will sail onto a Broadway stage after a stop in Chicago.
New York City's Rainbow Room, where music greats Tommy Dorsey, Guy Lombardo and others performed, will reopen to the public in the fall of 2014.
"On the Concept of the Face, Regarding the Son of God' is such a boat-rocking experience that I can't recommend it across the board. But I wouldn't have missed it for anything, says critic D…
Leo, produced by Y2D Productions with Chamaleon Productions, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield. Created by Tobias Wegner, featuring William Bonnet, directed by Daniel Briere.
Long ago, before Emperor Jones, before Iceman, before Long Day's Journey, before the Pulitzer and the Nobel Prizes, before the work that made Eugene O'Neill the granddaddy of American drama,…
In the Heights, which opened Wednesday at the Walnut Street Theatre, reminds you what theatrical alchemy is supposed to be.
Your response to Nature Theater of Oklahoma's Life and Times, Episode 1, will depend on your response to the hipster aesthetic. If you're on board with the idea that everyone is special in h…
Life and Times, Episode 1, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield, directed by Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper, with original music by Robert M. Johanson, with Kristen Worrall, Carly Bodnar, Julia Frey a…
Pssst! Want to buy an "alternative auditory experience"? I know somebody who can arrange it.
Pig Iron Theatre Company's smart and entertaining immersive show Pay Up is about money …
I loved Bruce Graham's hard-hitting comedy Any Given Monday when Theatre Exile gave it its 2010 world premiere. Delaware Theatre Company's furious production confirmed my original assessment…
