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As students ran across the stage at Cherry Hill High School East, placing buckets on one another's heads and jumping rope in a choreographed frenzy, Erin Weaver silently stood by, watching f…
It was an extra starry, musical day at the Dolby Theatre.
A version of this review appeared in the Jan. 25 Inquirer.
The score of 22-14 in football would not sound like a blowout to anyone who had not watched the game unfold. This understanding app…
"Vincent in Brixton" at the Walnut's Independence Studio, is picture perfect, as befits an engrossing play about the young van Gogh, says critic Toby Zinman.
Transformers star Shia LaBeouf was all psyched to make his Broadway stage debut in Orphans, Philadelphia playwright Lyle Kessler's famed '83 play set in North Philly. It costars Alec Baldwin…
The stage production based on E.B. White's story Charlotte's Web continues at Broadway Theatre of Pitman.
Charlotte the Spider, Templeton the Rat, and their animal friends try to save Wilbu…
Shia LaBeouf is out. Ben Foster is in.
HAD JENNIFER CHILDS' youthful dreams materialized, she'd have been a leading light in the Royal Shakespeare Company. But had she worn the crowns of such characters as Anne Boleyn or Isabelle…
The Diary of a Madman, by Nikolai Gogol, adapted by David Holman, Neil Armfield and Geoffrey Rush, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield. Produced by Quintessence Theatre Group, directed by Alexander…
Shakespeare's Hamlet tells us actors are the "brief chronicles of the time." If so, the record left by Ceal Phelan, the actor, teacher, and director who moved Philadelphia audiences for deca…
"AMERICAN IDIOT," the Broadway smash conjured from Green Day's 2004 punk-pop concept album of the same name, is definitely not for those uncomfortable with deviations from the trad…
The Great White Way is still white.
Although minimally less white.
The Asian American Performers Action Coalition this week released its second annual look at ethnic representation on New Yo…
Theresa Rebeck's 90-minute monologue Bad Dates begins with an introduction to one woman's array of shoes and clothes: classy, earthy, trashy, cute, dangerous, dowdy. If that's enough descrip…
Bad Dates, by Theresa Rebeck, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield. Produced by Montgomery Theater, directed by Jessica Bedford, featuring Sarah Sanford.
Sharp acting elevates Strictly Platonic's familiar formula into a cute rom-com fit for Valentine's Day date nights.
An Infinite Ache, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield, written by David Schulner, produced by Theatre Horizon, directed by Megan Nicole O'Brien, featuring Bi Jean Ngo and Griffin Stanton Ameisen.
Inis Nua Theatre Company has done it again - introduced us to a new, young playwright, this time from Scotland. D.C. Jackson's rom-com My Romantic History won an Edinburgh First at the 2010 …
B. Coop and Biden to become best friends? Hopefully.
One-note direction misses the comedy in Ira Levin's comic-thriller.
Ceal Phelan, 63, whose expressive and angular face graced regional theater here and around the country for more than four decades, died Tuesday, Feb. 5, in Malvern after a decadelong battle …
If you didn't already love Jenkintown's golden boy, Bradley Cooper, then you're about to pull a hamstring hopping on the bandwagon.
