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Oleanna
Through Oct. 14 at Bristol Riverside Playhouse, 120 Radcliffe St., Bristol. Tickets: $10-$45. Information: 215-785-0100 or www.brtstage.org.
A goofy break-out hit from the 2008 Philly Fringe festival returns to a bigger stage with more polish, less playfulness but the basic fun intact. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro revie…
At Bristol Riverside Theatre, two actors bring alive a David Mamet play that's less about the story it tells than about issues behind the story. Inquirer theatr critic Howard Shapiro reviews.
I couldn't help but think of an ATF agent named Peter Forcelli while I watched the super-charged Broadway revival of An Enemy of the People, Henrik Ibsen's play about a man who tries to do t…
The Philadelphia Theatre Company and Wilma Theater are the big winners of this year's Barrymore Awards, in what may be the final curtain for the theater honors that recognize work on the reg…
The Philadelphia Theatre Company and Wilma Theater are the big winners of this year's Barrymore Awards, in what may be the final curtain for the theater honors that recognize work on the reg…
Arts and cultural organizations have a multibillion-dollar impact on the Philadelphia region's economy, and are among the nation's most productive in creation of jobs and stirring up economi…
If the painting is a still life, it won't stay still long - as it morphs beyond its usual frame while on the Academy of Music stage.
Nick Stuccio has a bold vision for the future of the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe, the cutting-edge contemporary arts festival that just wrapped up its 16th successful y…
By Wendy Rosenfield. Australia's Back to Back Theatre perform with The Necks in a dark, meditation on power, disability and exploitation.
The newly reopened Bucks County Playhouse is already planning a world premiere, and a high-level one, too: a production based on Stephen King's novel Misery, which the playhouse will produce…
At the end of Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika, the characters talk about the politics of a changing world: "You can't wait around for a theory. The sprawl of life, the weird . .…
Go inside the phobic world of 10-year-old Sheila Tubman, who is scared of everything, at the Walnut Street Theatre for Kids' stage production Saturday of Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great,…
The newly reopened Bucks County Playhouse is already planning a world premiere, and a high-level one, too: a production based on Stephen King's novel Misery, which the playhouse will produce…
The newly reopened Bucks County Playhouse is already planning a world premiere, and a high-level one, too: A production based on Stephen King's novel "Misery," which the Playhouse will produ…
By Wendy Rosenfield. Young Jean Lee's Theater Company offers Untitled Feminist Show, featuring Becca Blackwell, Katy Pyle, Regina Rocke, Jen Rosenblit, Amelia Zirin-Brown aka Lady Rizo, for …
Despite their stylistic complexity, Toshiki Okada's three intertwined plays offer little insight.
The names of the company and the show tell you nothing, but 7 Fingers' Sequence 8 is fantastic, one of the most memorable Live Arts/Fringe performances I've seen over the years.
Wendy Rosenfield on Philly Live Arts Fringe Festival Critic's Picks. Philadelphia theater, dance, arts
Brush up your Chekhov - Christopher Durang's newest comedy, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, is premiering at McCarter Theater Center in Princeton and on its way to New York's Lincoln Ce…
A take on 50 Shades of Gray that's not quite spoof or serious commentary.
People's Light and Theatre Company presents a moving, majestic production of August Wilson's "Seven Guitars," says critic Jim Rutter.
"The Gate Reopened" is, like all Brian Sanders' work, thrilling, inventive, daring, ingenious and very witty, says critic Merilyn Jackson.
"I didn't think I could be bored looking at beautifully built dancers in the buff," writes critic Merilyn Jackson, "but absent a single touch of irony or comic relief throughout [Jumatatu Po…
