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The Delaware Theatre Company production of Bruce Graham's play about dementia and its effect on a family is first-rate. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews from Wilmington.
Seventy scenes. Three hundred lighting cues. Ninety minutes. Four terrific actors.
An offstage voice murmurs: "Scene One: Go" and Jeffrey M. Jones' Seventy Scenes of Halloween begi…
The new show at Society Hill Playhouse, an import from Rochester, gets more wildly funny as it goes on.
Family fare that both delights and educates, while reminding how little in a child's adventurous spirit has changed over 100 years.
Quintessence's riveting all-male Othello strikes at the savage heart of military culture.
Tom Hanks will play a gutsy New York City newspaper columnist when he makes his debut on Broadway in the spring.
NEW YORK - There's a small, grotesque thing sitting on Douglas Hodge's makeup table at the American Airlines Theatre.
There's a fresh push to get Holly Golightly onto a Broadway stage.
When an orchestra plays live to film, as the Philadelphia Orchestra increasingly does, you might find yourself consciously sorting out the essence of the experience. Are you in a movie house…
An exceptional one-man show about Bobby Kennedy, the president's little brother who loomed large in national life, is from New City Stage Company. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro revi…
Little of consequence resulted from EgoPo's decision to cast women to retell the story of outlaw Jesse James.
Religion - not intellectual theological debate, but old-time, fundamentalist, burn-in-hell, get-down-on-your-knees evangelical preachifying - is a tricky topic for a play. Especially a play …
From: Mr. Sherlock Holmes
To: Dr. Watson
I say, my dear Watson, we can make immediate deductions from our visit to Sherlock Holmes and the Crucifer of Blood at the indubitably pleasant Hedge…
1812 Productions' annual spoof concentrates this year on skewering the presidential campaign season -- and does so hilarious style. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews.
I say, Watson, is that basically good evening at Hedgerow Theatre a bit ragged 'round the edges? Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews.
Review of Inis Nua's production of David Harrower's drama A Slow Air. By Wendy Rosenfield for the Philadelphia Inquirer
Next to Normal is, for lack of a better term, a musical tragedy. With its beautifully sung score telling a painful and upsetting story, it challenges conventional expectations of what big Br…
A fledgling theater group in Chester County has landed a bit of big-time help from showbiz dynamo Tina Fey.
The Upper Darby High grad turned TV and film star filmed a surprise unpaid pitch f…
Sparkling singing and snappy dance numbers transcend the preachy social message in Hairspray.
A little semiprofessional theater amid the farmland of Hammonton, N.J., has become the beneficiary of more than a half-million dollars in grants and low-interest loans from a most unlikely a…
