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Soon after Black History Month became a February fixture in the mid-1970s, professional stages in big cities around the country began to pick up on it, and for a time it seemed as though a g…
The lights already are up on a number of notable shows during the theater season's second half - Body Awareness at the Wilma, the Philadelphia Theatre Company's Scottsboro Boys across the st…
The overture promises Verdi at his more dire - Rigoletto, only bloodier.
And then his first-ever opera, the rarely performed Oberto, written in 1839 when the composer was 26, unfolds like a …
The potent Wit is the only play Margaret Edson wrote, and you could say she quit while she was on top of her game. Her story of a callous, didactic scholar battling stage-4 ovarian cancer wo…
Jiri Zizka defected from Czechoslovakia, joined a small Philadelphia theater company, and, with his then-wife Blanka Zizka, transformed it into the Wilma Theater " one of the city's largest …
Philadelphia Theatre Company's production of this great Kander and Ebb musical benefits from its theater's intimate size, says critic Wendy Rosenthal.
Kenneth Lin's "Fallow" at People's Light founders in a swamp of metaphor, says critic Wendy Rosenfield.
InterAct Theatre Company gives to wacky "Microcrisis" a once-over. Is this satire about the financial crisis as goofy as it seems? Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews.
The cofounder of the modern Wilma has died, a banner across the site announces.
The Wilma Theater posted a banner across its website late Wednesday to announce that Jiri Zizka - a cofounder of the modern Wilma on Broad Street and a major force in Philadelphia's evolutio…
Toby Zinman found THE MOUSETRAP creaky but fun.
The show returns next week with an episode devoted to M.J.'s music
Joe Turner's Come and Gone is a big, strong, juicy play, and Plays & Players' production is just as big, strong, and juicy. Representing the second decade in August Wilson's "Century Cy…
A deeply-felt "Time Stands Still," a success last season on Broadway, unfolds in a production at the Delaware Theatre Company in Wilmington. It's a co-production with Ambler's Act II Playhou…
Nicky Silver's Beautiful Child," a mish-mash of a play about a molester, is being done by Fever Dream Repertory at the Adrienne. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews.
The Man Man men have been doing their chaotic, percussive, theatrical thing in Philly for long enough now to risk self-parody, but Saturday's sold-out homecoming show at Union Transfer was p…
Toby Zinman found this new play by Danai Gurira riveting, with a cast beyond outstanding.
Dr. Ostrauskas earned a larger reputation as a Lithuanian-language playwright in the image of Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco.
I'll admit that I went to Wednesday's performance of Of Mythic Proportions hoping Kensington teenagers would explain the inexplicable - why it's easier to get a gun in their neighborhood tha…
Toby Zinman found this a fine, strong production of August Wilson's powerful play, JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE.
David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Proof has found a perfect venue in the intimate Independence Studio on 3 at the Walnut Street Theatre. This luminous production, directed by Kate G…
Mary Marello must cook -- and the cast must eat what she makes -- nightly during the Wilma's "Body Awareness." Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro joins her there for a cooking session.
Mary Marello must cook -- and the cast must eat what she makes -- nightly during the Wilma's "Body Awareness." Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro joins her there for a cooking session.
I REMEMBER thinking "The Help," for a civil rights movie, had an unseemly fixation on fashion and furnishings.
Because, I guess, I'm a dude.
Toby Zinman found this production of PROOF both luminous and moving, making the math as well as the characters accessible and interesting.
