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One of the region's pre-eminent comic talents, Tony Braitwaite, has been named producing artistic director of Act II Playhouse in Ambler, succeeding Bud Martin. Howard Shapiro reports.
Actress Megan Hilty, star of NBC's "Smash," relaed with some girlfriends poolside at the Borgata's Immersion Spa, then picked up a dress from Just Cavalli at the Water Club. Hilty wore her n…
Waiting for the curtain to rise, theatergoers could trace more than 60 years of Bucks County Playhouse shows from signs on the theater's walls listing each season's lineup.
Villanova University abruptly canceled a weeklong workshop by a gay performance artist whose stage shows are often laced with nudity and simulated sex but who has taught and lectured at nume…
OPERA MAY be suffering in other cities, but Philadelphia provides an environment in which opera thrives. The Opera Company of Philadelphia recently announced that it will present five produc…
Of Mice and Men is so well-known and universally taught in American middle and high schools, you'd think a staged production, such as People's Light & Theatre Company's, must go out of its w…
At People's Light and Theatre Company's, director David Bradley keeps John Steinbeck's 1937 classic "Of Mice and Men" stripped to its bare essence, says critic Wendy Rosenfield.
HAROLD ARLEN and Irving Berlin wrote poignant, powerful songs - "Stormy Weather" and "Supper Time" - just for Ethel Waters to emote in Cotton Club and Broadway revues. Th…
OF ALL Shakespeare's tragic heroes, Coriolanus has been described as the hardest to warm up to.
Not a charmer, that Coriolanus. Didn't have a nice word to say about anyone, except somebody …
Although he has not exactly gone where no man has gone before, William Shatner's propensity for saying "yes" takes him places other entertainers may never get to.
The modern-day British take on "Pygmalion" opens in a crisp production at Hedgerow Theatre. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews from Rose Valley in Delaware County.
This compelling production and Ann Crumb's chilling performance transfix our gaze long enough to render something beautiful out of tragedy, says critic Jim Rutter.
Some Play: A stage adaptation of E.B. White's Charlotte's Web, closing Sunday, has become the Arden Theatre Company's biggest hit ever.
Kurt Vonnegut grappled fatalistically with the horrors of World War II in his 1969 sci-fi novel "Slaughterhouse-Five" -- and Eric Simonson's stage adaptation at Curio Theatre Company absorb…
Abe Lincoln had an irksome dream that he'd be assassinated just two weeks before he actually was. Dancer Lindsay Browning and her father, actor David Browning, collaborated in a dance theate…
A new creative work that attempts to dramatize playwright Tennessee Williams' final moments must transcend available information., says critic Jim Rutter. The solid production at South Cam…
Pennsylvania Ballet principal dancer Riolama Lorenzo's final performance before retiring is Sunday, but it was already a lovefest Thursday night, when the company opened its Pushing Boundari…
Plot isn't the point, but style is,Toby Zinman wrote, and the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium's production carries "Marriage," Gogol's 19th century Russian farce, off with considerable …
Pennsylvania Ballet principal dancer Riolama Lorenzo's final performance before retiring is Sunday, but it was already a lovefest Thursday night, when the company opened its Pushing Boundari…
After 22 years of being the rare American ballet company without a school, Pennsyvlania Ballet is reopening the School of Pennsylvania Ballet "sometime in the fall," says company artistic di…
Dance critic Nancy G. Heller calls Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak Dance Company's Oyster "60 minutes of sheer delight " jam-packed with slapstick humor, astonishing acrobatic feats, witty vis…
Dance USA/Philadelphia, an advocacy and service organization, has received a three-year, $950,000 grant from the William Penn Foundation, the philanthropy announced Thursday. In addition, Wi…
Toby Zinman wrote: Inis Nua Company's production of a new play by Elaine Murphy, is full of charm and sentiment and monologues and accents and working class women who keep on keeping on.
