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Finding a successor to Peter Nero, 77, is on the ensemble's to-do list.
Quintessence Theatre Group's mission is to tangle with the classics, and this time, they tackle Jean Anouilh's wartime adaptation of Sophocles' Antigone. A response to Nazi occupation of Fra…
Despite its backdrop of paved-over western mythology, Sam Shepard's Fool for Love is a rather intimate play for Iron Age Theatre. Though no strangers to Shepard's work - they've produced The…
Mayor Nutter showcased his acting skills in a recent performance of Hello Dolly at the Masterman School, where his daughter is a student. Check out the clip below. (Hat tip to The Philly Pos…
LOS ANGELES - Martin Sheen commanded the stage with his impassioned portrayal of an attorney arguing for gay-marriage rights; Jane Lynch inspired instant response as a vehement same-sex marr…
IF ALL GOES WELL, the Great White Way may soon be a little less white.
TMZ.com reports that producers of "Holler If You Hear Me," a show loosely based on the music of Tupac Shakur,…
The Wilma Theater has teamed up with a Roxborough 4-H Club to recruit actors - small woolly ones, to be precise - for its production of Sam Shepard's Curse of the Starving Class.
Wednesday night, the Walnut Street Theatre's current production of the play had a new surprise ending when Dan Hodge, one of its actors, proposed to his unsuspecting girlfriend at the curtai…
It happened Wednesday night at the Walnut Street Theatre production, in front of an audience of about 1,100. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reports from the Walnut.
It happened Wednesday night at the Walnut Street Theatre production, in front of an audience of about 1,100. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reports from the Walnut.
Two free-speech groups have called on Villanova University to reconsider its decision to cancel a workshop by a controversial gay performance artist.
Rozin, a Class of 1982 graduate, has since enjoyed almost 24 years of success with InterAct Theatre Company, which he helped create in 1988. As InterAct's producing artistic director, he rem…
Merilyn Jackson finds playfulness, poetry and philosophy in dancer/choreographer John Jasperse's revisiting of his 2000 piece "Fort Blossom" at Bryn Mawr.
ATTENDEES OF PTC@Play, be forewarned: Michael Hollinger will be watching you.
Don't worry, the local playwright isn't stalking you (not that we know of, anyway). Instead, he's one of four pl…
About 4:30 a.m., Bradley Wrenn knew his fellow cast members needed a lift: They had been acting for nearly nine hours straight - and had 15 more to go. So he scrapped his fireman's uniform a…
The phenomenally multi-talented performer Sheetal Gandhi, in her Philadelphia debut, left the Painted Bride audience in stunned, admiring silence. Nancy G. Heller reviews.
Want to see a musical, drama, or family show at the cozy Bristol Riverside Theatre? How about chipping in $10 for a screwdriver, $25 for a box of nails, or $5,000 for a forklift?
Terry Burrell offers a girlish, often defiant Ethel Waters in the one-woman "Ethel!" at Walnut Street Theatre's third-stage Independence Studio. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro review…
Bryn Mawr College will host a workshop by a gay performance artist whose program was canceled by Villanova University this week, officials said Thursday.
Slater, five other actors, and director Madi Distefano will be pulling an all-nighter beginning at 8 p.m. Friday at Plays & Players Theatre in Center City. There, they will stage 24 performa…
THEATER
AGAIN AND AGAIN
At the end of Eugene Ionesco's "The Bald Soprano," a one-hour absurdist comedy about the ridiculous nature of British social conventions and language, the p…
Villanova University president the Rev. Peter M. Donohue said he canceled a performance by a gay performance artist because of the subject matter, not the artist's sexual orientation.
BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Seasoned composers have written far worse operas than Rufus Wainwright's maiden effort, Prima Donna. Much of the music is simply beautiful. Never does it sound like a cheap …
