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By now, the greater Philadelphia area has so many top-notch outdoor summer performances that it's time you shelled out for a good lawn chair, when you're not checking out PlayPenn and ot…
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival's 25th season features an enthralling 'Julius Caesar' with a splendid veteran cast.
Alongside the Schuylkill River Arts Day on July 16, Invisible River presents a one-of-a-kind performance that suspends dancers from the Strawberry Mansion Bridge for an audience …
'If/Then' was written for and based on the talents of Idina Menzel. To Steve Cohen's surprise, the show has appeal even without her.
Reject Theatre Project exposes the misogyny of Shakespeare's 'The Taming of the Shrew,' which most productions try to obscure, with 'SHREW.'
Zak Berkman's world premiere 'The Harassment of Iris Malloy' suggests a tabloid situation, but reveals a genuine drama.
Samuel Beckett's 'Happy Days' frustrates our desire for a tidy plot, but offers other riches in Quintessence's impressive production.
Presenting a revival of the music comedy 'Jamaica' as just a colorful travelogue is missing an opportunity, but it sure looks good.
Summer brings some of the city's most accessible opera with a new edition of Ghenady Meirson's happy contribution to Philadelphia's musical life.
Pennsylvania Ballet's "Balanchine and Beyond" program dances the intricacies of poetry, ballet, and Trisha Brown's contemporary dance language.
Anne-Marie Mulgrew and Dancers Company celebrate 30 years of Philadelphia performance, collaboration and dance. Critic Gregory King became part of the show.
Sure, 'Hillary and Clinton' is timely, but Rhonda Davis wonders what message Philadelphia Theatre Company's production is trying to send to black women.
Philly playwright R. Eric Thomas's 'Time Is on Our Side,' in a world premiere by Simpatico Theatre Project, spins a lively mystery that links Philadelphia's past, present, and future LGBT li…
InterAct Theatre Company's straight-white-man-helmed production of Young Jean Lee's 'Straight White Men' has 99 problems, and the truth is one.
Young Jean Lee's 'Straight White Men' uses a family situation to probe larger issues about privilege and power.
Tiny Dynamite's A Play, A Pie, and A Pint satisfies with David Greig's clever relationship comedy 'Brewers Fayre.'
The Mechanical Theater's 'Romeo and Juliet' makes the play a bite-sized comedy while maintaining its tragic proportions.
'36 Views' is a smart play about a smart woman who lets passion undermine scholarship and pays the price. Men, it seems, can combine business and sex and succeed; women end up crying.
'The Servant of Two Masters' shows that Goldoni's old play feels new and young in the right hands.
A rousing, feel-good musical that fills the Walnut Street Theatre with tapping feet. Not quite the same as the movie, the show has its own quirky logic that leaves the audience cheering for …
The National Museum of Women in the Arts' photography exhibition, She Who Tells a Story, brings together a dozen artists from Iran and the Arab world. It's an easy road trip from Philadelphi…
A melodramatic story is the starting point, but what elevates this production is the grand, almost-operatic vocal score and its classy cast.
Thought you had to say sayonara to the scene in June? Think again. The greater Philadelphia area has more summer theater options than ever.
About 45 minutes into Paramour, the Cirque du Soleil musical that opens at Broadway's Lyric Theatre tonight, the twin aerialists Andrew and Kevin Atherton are suspended over a stage set of w…
What happens when we peek behind the scenes of a beloved classic? This musical version lets grownups in and provides a satisfactory tear at the end, but why is the story of a strong young wo…
