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This year’s Tony Award nominations were like a children’s T-ball league. If you played, you got a prize — 30 of 37 shows this season got at least one nomination.
The low-tech musical "Once" based on the love story of a Czech flower seller and an Irish street musician and vacuum cleaner repairman in Dublin got a leading 11 Tony Award nominations Tuesd…
‘And oh, that towering feeling! … that overpowering feeling,” sings the character Freddy in My Fair Lady, in one of the greatest songs of the American theater, “On t…
Theater companies cut Shakespeare to reflect casting, to indulge shortened attention spans, or to center the play on a director’s artistic vision or insight, among other reasons. Curio…
Act II Playhouse in Ambler downsizes "My Fair Lady" to mixed results. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews.
Grace Gonglewski, the tall, velvet-voiced actor Philadelphia theatergoers have been seeing on professional stages for two decades, was standing in front of a microphone the other day.
Near the end of The Tempest by William Shakespeare, the magician Prospero promises that he'll retire, that "deeper than did ever plummet sound, / I'll drown my book."
Theatre Exile's dazzling production of A Behanding in Spokane is both hilarious and creepy - that signature Martin McDonagh combo. An evenly excellent cast, directed by Joe Canuso, convinced…
You can see the smile creep into actress Patricia Kalember’s pretty face as her eyes widen in the role of a married woman named Jacqueline. She has just picked up the phone to hear the…
The new Broadway musical “Leap of Faith,” which opened Thursday night, is really “The Music Man” in a revival tent.
Abington native/actor Daniel Spink recruited 35 familiar faces, including David Hasselhoff; Chris Evans ("Avengers"); Stacy Keibler, an alum of "Dancing with the Stars" and George Clooney's …
Joseph Alsop and his brother, Stewart, were kingpins of the opinion pages after World War II, when syndicated columnists meant fear and respect in an era before the Internet empowered everyo…
Before we get too far, I need to tell you about the costumes in the new and wonderful Broadway musical comedy “Nice Work If You Can Get It,” which opened Tuesday night and may be…
Iconic theater will reopen July 2 with Rodgers and Hammerstein revue, followed by "Barefoot in the Park."
Doylestown-raised American Idol star Justin Guarini takes the Atlanta, Ga., stage in the world premiere of a new musical written by Stephen King and with John Mellencamp
The new Broadway musical “Ghost the Musical,” modeled on the hit 1990 movie about a young banker who is murdered but whose spirit sticks around to keep his girlfriend from harm, …
Nicky Silver, the Wynnewood-born-and bred playwright whose edgy plays sometimes have seemingly nice or clueless people turning awful, had his Broadway debut Monday night with a solid, edgy p…
There’s no better time than spring for a production of Spring Awakening. Media Theatre, no doubt, hopes its regional entry will produce a major bloom among the area’s “Guil…
Blanche DuBois isn’t the only hot gal in the new Broadway production of “A Streetcar Named Desire” that opened Sunday night. Her sister, Stella, is also full-steam ahead i…
“Clybourne Park” is the fiercest, frankest, funniest discussion of race I have seen on a stage. It is smooth — taut, realistic and stringing together ideas about real estat…
Depending on the day, hour, and minute, Michelle Johnson is either living the dream or enduring a nightmare. The velvet-voiced soprano, 29, was anticipating a relatively light spring schedul…
The new Broadway show “One Man, Two Guvnors” is the hoot of the season. On one level, it’s a story about a dum-dum who becomes the full-time lackey for two different shady …
