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Measure for Measure, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield, produced by Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, directed by Fontaine Syer, featuring Greg Wood, Blake Ellis, Erin Partin, Brad DePlanche and…
Reuven Gershon and James Fox have some insanely daunting shoes to fill: Every night, they're asked to impersonate John and Paul on Broadway.
LOS ANGELES - Shirley Jones opens the door to her house and appears every inch the ladylike Marian the librarian or sweet farm girl Laurey or cheerfully steady Mrs. Partridge, offering a war…
Theater can be magical, mystical, transportive. It can take audience members, actors, and writers alike to better places than reality has to offer. It can be a quick escape, or a saving grac…
Shirley Jones appears every inch the ladylike Marian the librarian or sweet farm girl Laurey or cheerfully steady Mrs. Partridge.
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Wilde, not Bard The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival performs Oscar Wilde's antic comedy The Importance of Being Earnest at 2 p.m. Sunday at DeSales University's Schubert Theater, 27…
A post-bankruptcy Prince Music Theater is coming into view with a 2013-14 season revealing it as a presenting, rather than producing, entity.
Grammy Award-winner Fantasia Barrino will star in the Broadway-bound "After Midnight," a musical revue celebrating Duke Ellington's years at the famous Cotton Club nightclub in Harlem.
Inventive fights and perfect timing transform this farce into a paragon of physical comedy.
Delaware Shakespeare Festival's production excites in its realistic depiction of youthful passion
Run for Your Wife, by Ray Cooney, produced at Hedgerow Theatre, directed by Penelope Reed, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield, featuring Joel Guerrero, John Smith, Amy Frear and Alexis Newbauer.
WILMINGTON - Friendship before love. Many boys spout this mantra, few endorse it in action. Shakespeare threaded this truth through the plot of The Two Gentlemen of Verona, a young man's pla…
Every summer for a dozen years, Hedgerow Theatre has trotted out a farce - some new, some old - by England's reigning farceur, Ray Cooney. Run for Your Wife was their first, as well as Coone…
Backstage follies In Michael Frayn's 1982 comedy Noises Off, a theater company's attempt to put on an unfunny farce called Nothing On is seen from the wings as it devolves from rehearsal to …
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), the ultra-light theatrical romp that compacts the great playwright's lifetime output in ways that make CliffsNotes look expansive, is ac…
Wednesday night, the Wilma Theater hosted the world premiere of Beautiful Decay, the first evening-length work commissioned by Philadelphia's BalletX from the gifted, prolific, and internati…
Sting will hold 10 concerts in New York City this fall to benefit The Public Theater arts organization.
Laura Marling will play at Philadelphia's Prince Theater in August.
Low and no-budget productions give us a glimpse into the future of experimental theater.
The Broadway staple translates well to Broad Street in its local run.
"Wicked" actor John Davidson is spending his down time while performing in Philadelphia in an RV in New Jersey.
LAS VEGAS - The founder of Cirque du Soleil says his tight-knit performance company is "completely devastated" after a veteran acrobat died Saturday in a fall witnessed by the audi…
Welcome back Wicked, a gorgeous musical last in Philadelphia three years ago. The current production, part of the Kimmel Center's Broadway series, is full of great songs by Stephen Schwartz …
Two 11-year-old actresses who have played orphans and been understudies in the Broadway revival of Annie have been picked to permanently take over from Lilla Crawford in the title role, a st…
