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Henner stars, with four-time Oscar nominee Marsha Mason, in the Charles Busch comedy "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife."
NEW YORK - Luxurious rehearsal was not in the cards for the cast of Charles Busch's The Tale of the Allergist's Wife two weeks before its Thursday opening at Bucks County Playhouse. As Manha…
Aaron Cromie's "Two Noble Kinsmen" at the PST has its highs and its lows.
AMARILLO, Texas (AP) - Authorities say alcohol is suspected as a factor in the deaths of five members of a popular summer musical production who have been killed in a Texas Panhandle auto ac…
Phil Roy is not exactly an old salt.
Nor a sea-farin' man.
But he knows how to navigate choppy waters and have a good time doing it.
At the start of Mauckingbird Theatre Company's opening night of The Importance of Being Earnest, artistic director Peter Reynolds announced that his company is the only one presenting classi…
A fan of the Swedish pop group ABBA saw the money, money, money roll in as his collection of more than 25,000 ABBA albums, posters and other memorabilia was sold at an auction house in Stock…
When and where did Macbeth take place? You wouldn't know from seeing Commonwealth Classic Theatre Company's design-confused albeit chillingly staged production of Shakespeare's tragedy.
A renegade theater company gets dark with their latest production: "Noir"
In "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike," Christopher Durang's 2013 Tony Award-winner for best play, there's a shout-out to weather woman Carol Erickson.
Elton John is recovering after an operation to remove his appendix.
Denzel Washington will narrate a PBS documentary about the 1963 March on Washington for civil rights.
Her Broadway credits include Melvin Van Peebles' "Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death," Ron Milner's "What the Wine Sellers Buy" and "Don't Get God Started," and Langston Hughes' "Mule Bon…
Guest stars Betty Buckley and Christine Ebersole added to the splendor. Granted, the Philadelphia Orchestra, augmented by a rhythm section and led by Jack Everly, was underused, but the play…
Want to know how old my beat-up collected Shakespeare is? So old it doesn't include The Two Noble Kinsmen. Only recently has the play been included in volumes of the collected plays, as Shak…
Opera doesn't always belong in a theater, especially when it consists of an all-woman cast in a free-floating plot with no need for instrumentalists.
The divas are stepping out of the opera house and into the warehouse as part of a new annual series by the city's opera company that aims to bring its vox to the populi.
Summer of '42 - the musical? The well-remembered but not-exactly-classic film would not seem to cry out for song, since so much of it was seashore scenery and long, dialogue-free passages ex…
Most people who dream of an acting career do just that. They dream, never thinking that they'll get a chance to do it.
Let's be honest: Henry VIII isn't one of Shakespeare's greatest works, which might be why Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival chose to make it their third "extreme Shakespeare" effor…
Henry VIII, by William Shakespeare, produced by Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield, featuring Ian Bedford, Susan Riley Stevens, Richard B. Watson.
The legendary New York theater is looking for "Gold in Philly’
Sixty seconds is barely enough time to compose a Tweet, let alone reveal an entire play's dramatic arc. It would seem an insurmountable task to get wordy playwrights to come up with narrativ…
Watch the tale of two young women who meet in the Land of Oz in the Broadway musical Wicked, at the Academy of Music through Aug. 4.
