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A nice turn by the Delaware Shakespeare Festival, in Rockwood Mansion Park. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews from Wilmington.
Producers of a musical based on the life of Motown Records founder Berry Gordy are seeking an exceptionally talented young actor _ one who can play a preteen Gordy, a young Michael Jackson a…
PRINCETON — The audience arrived Sunday at the McCarter Theatre Center for H.M.S. Pinafore primed for immediate enjoyment, ready to giggle at the sprightly tunes, ahhh at the pretty sc…
Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare's comedy built on trickery at every turn, is much ado about making good theater at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, where it opened Friday n…
A rich interpretation of Shakespeare's comedy, at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews from Center Valley, Pa.
ASBURY PARK, N.J. — Opera is hardly a component of most seaside resorts, but it has been one for this Shore town in the past — and it will be again. This month, Opera New Jersey …
Our Town is one of the most delectable chestnuts of the American stage and also one of its great paradoxes — a thoroughly life-affirming play that, when done well, makes you sad.In pro…
BalletX regularly conceives scintillating programs " mysterious, sexy, funny, and surprising. This one, says critic Merilyn Jackson, is no different.
Commonwealth Classic Theatre Company offers a sturdy version of Thornton Wilder's masterpiece outdoors, in parks and public spaces across the region. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro r…
The William Penn Foundation, a week after announcing it will continue to focus its grant-making activities on the region, was to announce Tuesday $10.9 million in grants designed to spur and…
Radiant in the first production of its new era, the once-celebrated and more recently dark Bucks County Playhouse has reopened in its former New Hope gristmill on the Delaware River. The the…
Rodgers and Hammerstein are doing great, once again, at the newly-reopened Bucks County Playhouse. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews from New Hope.
He had been performing with the Broadway revival of Anything Goes. Mr. Satalof was Sondheim's first-choice trumpeter for a show debut, said his brother Mitchell.
A CENTURY AGO, Philadelphia was home to a number of entertainment venues that were far different — architecturally, geographically and, most of all, artistically — from such gran…
As a Megabus rattled through the Lincoln Tunnel, a surprising fact passed among the 11 Philadelphia high school students occupying the back rows: They were under water.
Broadway producer Jed Bernstein has a dream about the Bucks County Playhouse - "I'm sitting in an Adirondack chair in the gazebo, watching the people arrive for a show."
Following in the footsteps of ABBA's "Mamma Mia" and Queen's "We Will Rock You," it seems as if every artist with more than five songs wants to turn his catalog into a musical. There was Bil…
The Spice Girls gave fans what they want _ what they really, really want _ Tuesday, reuniting onstage to announce the details of a musical based on their songs.
Shakespeare's world of comedy is filled with fools, weddings, characters in disguise and mistaken identities, hypocrites and usurpers. Now, it also has a good-old American type hoedown.In th…
The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts is laying off 10 percent of its administrative staff.
Seven employees in the arts center's marketing, development, programming, education, and facil…
The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts is laying off 10 percent of its administrative staff.
Dambra Sabato, host of an offbeat series called "Monday Night Monologues" that opened Monday in Center City, makes the point that actors are the only people who have to audition for just abo…
Must the show always go on? In 18 years of theatergoing in Philadelphia, I had never been sent home at intermission because a company could not continue the production " until Saturday.
