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A mixed bag of little audition monologues opened in a series of Monday night shows, all different, at Plays & Players Theatre. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews.
The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival's production of Sweeney Todd, which opened last weekend, ripples with meaty ideas, but they are too often ground into bad meat pies by an erratic, muddy…
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…
Erratic sound dents an otherwise good production at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews from Center Valley, Pa.
The actor Jim Parsons has become famous playing a quirky physicist on TV's The Big Bang Theory, and now he's on Broadway, doing wonderful justice to a character with a completely different s…
Christopher Gattelli, A Bristol boy who began dancing lesson when he was eight, took home a Tony on Sunday night for his choreography of "Newsies."
By the time the hair-rock musical "Rock of Ages" concludes its two-hour journey with Journey, you realize "Don't Stop Believin'" has become our de facto national anthem. At this point, we sh…
Tom Stoppard's plays are still the gold standard for brilliance: funnier than Shaw, weightier than Wilde. His 1974 Travesties is a supersmart, super-theatrical tour de force challenging both…
A hint of sleaziness hangs over Muriel Resnik's Any Wednesday, a sugar-daddy escapade and her only Broadway play, a highly successful one, running for two years in the mid-'60s. It's written…
The '60s comedy about a Manhattan business tycoon who keeps his mistress on the Upper East Side and his wife out of sight -- until she isn't -- is just not that funny, despite an excellent p…
The telecast drew the lowest rating. Ever.
Last night the charming Irish folk flavored "Once" scored multiple Tony awards - including Best
Musical. And today, you can grab a free sneak peak of composer Glen Hansard's latest album p…
The bittersweet musical "Once" captured eight Tony Awards on Sunday, including best direction of a musical, best lead actor in a musical and the top musical prize itself.
Winners from the 2012 American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards, announced Sunday.
The bittersweet musical "Once" has jumped out to a big lead at the 2012 Tony Awards, taking four honors so far, including best direction of a musical.
It's Tony Awards show time, and this year the producers apparently don't want you to breathe.
Three young natives of metropolitan Philadelphia have a special something in common: All are nominated for Tony Awards for their performances in different musicals. The annual awards —…
Sunday Skin deep Playwright and filmmaker Neil LaBute is known for his bleak and brutal depictions of human foibles: misogyny, unfaithfulness, narcissism. So it is with his 2008 work Reasons…
The new musical revue from Laugh Out Loud Theatre Company is a pleasant pastiche of tunes from the '20s, '30s and '40s. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews from the Red Room at So…
Saying the current touring production of Disney's Beauty and the Beast is a stripped-down version of its long-running Broadway predecessor is a bit like saying Ke$ha is a stripped-down versi…
And now, the names of four of the hardest-working women on any stage in Philadelphia and, currently, maybe anywhere. They are Kat Borrelli, Laura Catlaw, Colleen Hazlett and Janet Rowley, an…
Four women knock themselves out as a gal group in 11th Hour Theatre Company's "The Marvelous Wonderettes," with a storyline that's lame in the first act, socko in the second. Theater critic …
Marking the 10th anniversary of its debut, Funny or Die? has turned David Simon's HBO crime and drug drama The Wire into a faux musical.
