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I didn’t intend to write about the Media Theatre’s Jekyll and Hyde, but Jesse Cline left me no choice. This director’s greatest gift, it seems, is his talent for turning po…
Benjamin Walker for president! The actor's charismatic turn in the title role of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, a provocative indie-rock musical, ...
The Wilma Theater’s new Macbeth is concerned more with the struggle of an oppressed people fighting to overthrow tyranny than it is with the title character and his wife. Shakespeare w…
Lee Hall’s The Pitmen Painters, a play about English miners who learn to paint, contains enough ideas—political and aesthetic—and enough charm to please any crowd, although…
The new Broadway season begins with a (wait for it) transfer from England. The Pitmen Painters, a hit both in Newcastle and then in London, arrives cast intact, extreme accents likewise. The…
Ghost-Writer concerns the mysterious process of literary creation. That’s quite a monumental task, but Michael Hollinger handles it so well that the drama flows with energy and wit.
Eschewing the sure-fire opportunities of Broadway hits classics is a brave and welcome change of pace by the Walnut. Unfortunately, Curtains is contrived and uninvolving— a weak exampl…
Rona Munro’s drama about a series of visits between an imprisoned mother and her grown daughter is deeply nuanced, gradually revealing more about each woman while the audience sits in …
In Theatre Exile’s production of Rona Munro’s Iron, the stunning proximity of a converted South Philadelphia garage allows the audience to peer voyeuristically into the psycholog…
Michael Hollinger’s drama about a novelist, his typist and his wife creates characters with whom we can empathize, and whose fates we actually care about.
Mauckingbird's imaginative, gender-bending staging of A Midsummer Night's Dream offers a spectacle that the Facebook generation can sink its teeth right into, notwithstanding the limitations…
EW can exclusively announce the record's artwork and lineup, including Nick Jonas, Ellie Goulding, Jennifer Lopez, Christina Aguilera, John Legend, and Jon Bon Jovi. We're also premiering Ca…
A visually dazzling musicalization of the '04 film that will have you clapping your hands with belief
This article may only serve you well for the next few days, but it may just be the difference between access to the season's hottest tickets and standing in line with your visiting relatives…
The actress will share funny (and occasionally weird) stories from her time growing up in New Jersey, moving to New York City at 18 to pursue her Broadway dreams, and ending up married and d…
It's a great surprise that the large-scale musical version of said property is a frothy delight, a pineapple-sweet warm-up in this most frigid season.
