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Cinderella, People's Light and Theatre Company's annual holiday panto, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield
'Making God Laugh' tries to be absurd and genuine and fails at both.
With his choreography for BalletX last week, Rome's Mauro Astolfi's Spellbound Contemporary Dance made its North American debut at Annenberg Center this week.
Reuben Mitchell, 31, a rising actor with a comedic flair who found a home in Philadelphia theater circles, died Monday, Nov. 12, from injuries he sustained in a motorcycle accident in West P…
Michael Krajewski, 62, who leads pops orchestras in Atlanta, Houston and Jacksonville, will take over in the fall of 2013.
BalletX's program started off as dark and stormy as the night, wound through two world premieres, and ended with Matthew Neenan's lovely, upbeat "Switch Phase," says Merilyn Jackson.
The tough language and even tougher subject matter of Indoor Picnic, on stage through Sunday at the South Camden Theatre Company, hit close to home for many audience members. Perhaps too clo…
Tense staging and evocative choreography underscore the drama behind film's most celebrated musical comedy.
In precocious playwright J.C. Lee's Pookie Goes Grenading, a 14-year-old girl grabs weapons-grade explosives and a few devious friends and heads off into the red night, on a journey to a pla…
West Philadelphia playwright and director Cara Blouin was watching a satirical play about torture when she had a revelation: Why do theater people so often assume audiences share their liber…
Cathy Simpson's performance elevates this one-person show into a celebration of faith and community.
In Carbon Dance Theatre's Science Per Forms Meredith Rainey and Marcel Williams Foster ask which drives which, the body or the machine?
Philadelphia Theatre Company's world premiere musical Stars of David, based on Abigail Pogrebin's collection of interviews, asks a whole lot of famous people a single question: How do you fe…
Many theatergoers will remember the silver-haired gentleman in black who served as house manager for many years at the Prince Music Theater, 1416 Chestnut St., and greeted one and all with b…
Review of Philadelphia Theatre Company's World Premiere Musical Stars of David, based on Abigail Pogrebin's book of interviews with Jewish celebrities, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield.
Monday night signaled a turning point for Philadelphia's ever-expanding theater community in a region with 50-plus professional stage companies, almost 1,000 members of the professional Acto…
The theater community comes together -- first to celebrate, then to plan. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reports.
