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People's Light and Theatre Company's The Winter's Tale, by William Shakespeare, directed by Guy Hollands. Reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield. Featuring Greg Wood, Christopher Patrick Mullins, Mary…
It's virtually impossible to watch Smash star Katharine McPhee on screen and not be smitten.
The American Idol alumna has a way to go before she masters the intricacies of acting, but it was…
Stagehands at the Philadelphia Theatre Company Friday ratified their first labor contract, ending a 15-day strike that disrupted the theater's run of The Mountaintop.
Robert Battle programmed Paul Taylor's 1981 masterpiece Arden Court as the opening note on Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's three-night run at the Merriam Theater, which began Wednesday.…
Ailey Company at Merriam brings home Rennie Harris's Home
Boeing Boeing, at Delaware Theatre Company, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield
Lungs, by Duncan MacMillan, produced by Luna Theatre, directed by Gregory Scott Campbell, featuring Charlotte Ford and David Raphaely. Reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield
Curio finds a fresh perspective on Peter Shaffer's 40-year old psychiatric thriller.
Choreographer Christopher Williams and composer Gregory Spears bring beasts of the wild to the stage to howls and hallelujahs.
The lack of stagecraft in this production deprives the play of its full power.
Saturday night, no one was safe from the charms of Hugh Jackman. As guest for the Academy of Music's 156th Anniversary Concert and Ball, the Australian actor sang a few songs and waved his w…
"If you want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, be an audience."
The Arden Theatre's production of Endgame marks the first time this company - usually squarely in the province of narrative-driven plays and musicals - has taken on absurdist Samuel Beckett.…
Endgame, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield, at the Arden Theatre Company, featuring Scott Greer, James Ijames, Dan Kern, Nancy Boykin. Directed by Ed Sobel. Philadelphia
Tapper and choreographer Savion Glover will perform as part of the opening weekend of the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts, organizers said Wednesday, bringing a bit of the yo…
Scenes from a strike:
A nighttime projectionist set up in the middle of Broad Street, beaming antimanagement messages onto a building. Protesters with strike placards facing the plateglass w…
Hipster history. Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, a rock musical by Alex Timbers and Philadelphia's Michael Friedman, was a huge success in New York. But the Plays & Players production feels as…
Talks between the Philadelphia Theatre Co. and union officials ended Sunday after "seven fruitless hours," according to the union, without reaching a new labor agreement covering 27 stagehan…
Stagehands for the Philadelphia Theatre Company went on strike Friday just as the theater was readying previews for The Mountaintop, Katori Hall's play based on the "reimagining" o…
Philadelphia Theatre Company's Friday night preview performance of The Mountaintop was canceled after local 8 of the International Association of Theatrical and Stage Employees called a stag…
When last we saw Phileas Fogg traveling Around the World in 80 Days, he landed in Delaware Theatre Company's big, spare, delightfully imaginative, Barrymore Award-winning main-stage show. No…
Wendy Rosenfield calls this production, on the Walnut's tiny Studio 3 stage, a "small wonder" of inventive staging and costumes.
