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Frank Rizzo may soon walk again. And talk again. Philadelphia's Theatre Exile inked a deal March 22 to bring the best-selling biography of the larger-than-life mayor to the stage.
This week's new DVDs include an Oscar-nominated effort, a film with performances that should have been nominated, and a new release that sounds as if it was up for an Oscar.
David Lindsay-Abaire's Broadway hit play Good People, at Walnut Street Theatre, is about class. It is a sociological cliche that the American inclination is always to root for the underdog, …
The Wilma's riveting North American premiere inspires in its depiction of seafaring men.
ALMOST every day, we hear about a pop star blowing up on the Internet. But who knew that YouTube can make a fast and enduring phenomenon of Broadway tunesmiths, too?
THE WAIT for Leslie Odom Jr.'s "Smash" close-up is nearly over. The Philadelphia-raised actor was promoted to a regular this season.
CAN MUSIC be a powerful uniting factor, when politics, religion and geography constantly force people apart?
Udi Bar-David, an Israeli cellist in the Philadelphia Orchestra, has spent the la…
Othello, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield, produced by Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, directed by Carmen Kahn, featuring Forrest McClendon, J Hernandez, Lauren Sowa and Eleni Delopolous
What's up with Nick Kroll's love of Philly?
Theatre Confetti's first offering, about kids trying to be adutls, features a fine cast of adults playing kids persuasively, says critic Wendy Rosenfield.
She has incurable cancer, but Valerie Harper says she's not ready to say good-bye and she's keeping herself open to a miracle.
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Dance it trippingly Shakespeare's mystical comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream was given musical life by Mendelssohn and made just about perfect by Balanchine's choreography. The Pennsyl…
'The course of true love never did run smooth," Shakespeare wrote in A Midsummer Night's Dream, an "I love you, I hate you, I love you" theme that also runs through nearly eve…
Valerie Harper, who played Rhoda Morgenstern on television's "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and its spinoff, "Rhoda," has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.
If there's one thing New City Stage proved in the local professional debut of David Rabe's massive, messy, but brilliant Hurlyburly, it's that there are infinite ways to play Hollywood movie…
Bobby Rogers, a founding member of Motown group The Miracles and a songwriting collaborator with Smokey Robinson, died Sunday at his suburban Detroit home. He was 73.
It wasn't exactly like the scenes that actors Susan Riley Stevens and Greg Wood have played on area stages for years. But, in some ways, their first glimpse of a house in Merchantville felt …
Two stylish, moving premieres: Parsons and company never fail to please.
Nobody goes to Wagner operas for the plot. So don't be taken aback that the redemption parable that is his opera Parsifal becomes a mere skeleton for a network of mythology-inspired poetic i…
In sports and the military, "professionalism" describes people who go about their work with a calm, dispassionate efficiency - no fuss, no panic when things go wrong, few mistakes,…
A rare appearance of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in Philly at the Painted Bride.
A capable cast led by Edie Falco creates a cadre of unlikeable women and henpecked men in "The Madrid," says critic Toby Zinman.
The feathers, the finery, the anthems, the heart -- "Priscilla Queen of the Desert" couldn't be more fun, says critic Toby Zinman.
Variety, the venerable trade publication that has covered Hollywood for more than a century, is dropping its website paywall and rolling out a new one-day-a-week print edition.
Inside a gutted, century-old pumping station down by the Delaware River, plastic sheeting hanging from steel beams 30 feet up, a deep trench running through the center of the concrete floor,…
