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The Broadway smash "Jersey Boys" is about to get some tough competition _ from an original Jersey Boy.
Marvin Hamlisch was remembered as a "great, giving genius" (by former President Bill Clinton) and "the merriest of minstrels" (Sir Howard Stringer, chairman of Sony Corp.…
Friends and admirers of Marvin Hamlisch including Bill Clinton and Ann-Margret gathered Tuesday in New York City to bid farewell to the celebrated songwriter hailed as "the people's composer…
When Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park hit Broadway in 1963, the then-sophisticated New York comedy ran 1,532 performances and became a popular movie. But time has ravaged the formerly au co…
Neil Simon's dated comedy, at the Bucks County Playhouse where it began, comes off without charm or much pizazz. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews from New Hope, Pa.
Mauckingbird Theatre Company's gay version of Shakespeare's play underscores love as a dynamic that has no gender. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews.
You know about all those site-specific dances in parking lots or fringe theater pieces on the rooftops of apartment buildings? They're fun, but they cannot beat the sheer class of seeing a s…
Marvin Hamlisch, 68, who composed or arranged the scores for dozens of movies, including The Sting and the Broadway smash A Chorus Line, has died in Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES (AP) " Marvin Hamlisch, who composed the scores for dozens of movies including "The Sting" and won a Tony for "A Chorus Line," has died in Los Angeles at 68.
NOTHING'S CONFIRMED yet, but it looks as if Bradley Cooper will be back in town Aug. 27 for an invite-only premiere of "The Words" at the Prince Music Theatre (1412 Chestnut St.). In the fil…
Peter Nero will lead the Philly Pops next season in Verizon Hall and then, at the end of 2012-13, pass the baton to a successor after 3½ decades of Gershwin, film music, Broadway, and a s…
Theater Professional/ semi-professional Barefoot in the Park Neil Simon comedy about NY newlyweds contending w/life's challenges. Closes 8/26. Bucks County Playhouse, 70 S. Main St., New Hop…
If "Fame" and "Glee" joined hands and headed for Broadway, and dragged along little bits of "Rocky," "All About Eve" and "West Side Story," they'd probably come up with something like "Bring…
"Lost" star Josh Holloway is a class act. The actor, in town shooting "Paranoia," insisted on paying for his own ticket when he caught "The Buddy Holly Story" just before it closed last week…
The Merry Wives of Windsor might be the most trifling of Shakespeare's comedic trifles. But with its broad humor and a plot as slender as, well, its character Slender, Shakespeare in Clark P…
'Lord, what fools these mortals be!" Shakespeare writes in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and given how he operated in the theater of his day, he could have been referring to the way plays are d…
Sherman Hemsley, the Philadelphia-born actor best known for his role as the cantankerous George Jefferson in the 1970s television shows All in the Family and the Jeffersons, has died. He was…
Longtime Broadway agent and producer Archer King, who's credited with discovering a slew of famous actors including James Dean and Ron Howard, has died in New York. He was 95.
Peter Nero has prevailed. His lawyers successfully beat back a move to oust the Grammy Award-winning pianist and conductor as head of the Philly Pops. Nero, 78, who had two years to go on hi…
Seeing this blistering production of the American classic by Tennessee Williams at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, near Quakertown, is like seeing it for the first time. Inquirer thea…
Playwright Bruce Graham's newest, in a world premiere at People's Light & Theatre, is a terrific piece taken from a footnote in history, with a cast to match. Inquirer theater critic Howard …
For next season, its 12th, the Kimmel Center will be busier than ever — with Broadway shows in the Academy of Music and more commercial presentations such as pop acts, comedians, and t…
Acting Without Boundaries partners with the Arden Theatre to bring AWB Goes Broadway: Some Enchanted Evening, The Songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein to stage on Sunday featuring performances b…
Oh, those crazy, mixed-up Athenian kids of yore. In the spirited telling of the Delaware Shakespeare Festival's A Midsummer Night's Dream, they are tricked by the magic of the forest, and in…
