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New This Week My Fair Lady (Bucks County Center for Performing Arts, Doylestown). Eliza Doolittle drives her teacher nuts. Wednesday through Aug. 13.
It has been a stressful year for Theatre Exile, a year in the life of one of Philly's vigorous, agile neighborhood theaters. The South Philly theater company, celebrating its 20th anniversar…
'Lady Macbeth' is only distantly related to the play, but it's certainly bloody, and the title character (Florence Pugh) lives up to her billing.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Disney has parted ways with a YouTube star days after a local television news report that revealed some of his Los Angeles neighbors were fed up with his stunts.
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Dulé is coming! Dulé Hill, that is, he of The West Wing, Psych, and much else. The world premiere of Lights Out: …
New This Week Ah, Wilderness! (East Lynne Theatre Company, Cape May). Eugene O'Neill in a comic vein. Wednesday through Sept. 2.
A backing band is a possibility, but will be limited in size if there is one, a source says.
Amanda Jane Cooper steps into the role of Glinda the Good Witch, originated by Kristin Chenoweth. Cooper has been playing the role in the national touring production of the show.
"Rabbit Hole," performed by Theater with a View at Sycamore Hill in Pottstown, is a spare, disciplined production of a very fine play about grief. Five excellent actors explore grief and los…
Seeing the future. This week, you theater-lovers have a terrific chance to see six future plays for free. On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, the PlayPenn New Play Development Conference ha…
Tiny Dynamite enhances its rep as one of the region's most cutting-edge theatrical companies with its latest production, "Perfect Blue," a disturbing exploration of how environmental disaste…
Whether any of his new magic will involve the word "jawn" is anybody's guess.
New This Week Hamlet (REV Theatre Company/ Emlen Physick Estate, Cape May). Outdoor performance of the world's most famous revenge tragedy. Wednesday through next Sunday, and July 25-29.
LONDON (AP) - Manchester officials say they are making U.S. pop singer Ariana Grande an honorary citizen of the city because of her response to the deadly concert attack in May.
It was a crazy idea, and it worked: Christopher Dayett's musical "Dorian Gray" runs for three nights this week off-Broadway. From its first reading 13 months ago, his Villanova University th…
NEW YORK (AP) - The publishers of a best-seller about the making of "Hamilton" are hoping for similar luck with another prize-winning musical, "Dear Evan Hansen."
Sixty-three teens? You go, Moorestown Theater Company. All ages take part in shows, with the occasional local ringer. Insane is their summer: Disney's High School Musical Jr. (through Friday…
Tina Fey may be producing her first Broadway musical, but the Mean Girls writer is hardly new to the medium. The Upper Darby native got her start in showbiz at Upper Darby Summer Stage, whic…
The Broadway Theatre in Pitman, N.J., offers a stellar "Titanic."
REV Theatre Company co-founder Rudy Caporaso delivers an over-the-top turn as a hysterical, narcissistic Hamlet in a disappointing outdoor performance of Shakespeare's tragedy at Laurel Hill…
The "Wicked" Tony winner, voice of Elsa, and famously flubbed boldface name plays the BB and T Pavilion Sunday, July 16.
New This Week Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Surflight Theatre, Beach Haven, N.J.) Tale of the all-time brother, reader of dreams. Tuesday through July 23.
"I just happened to find it on Comedy Central one day, and then became a little obsessed with it," Ray says of 'MST3K.'
Mark Rylance in Pittsburgh. On Thursday at Carnegie Music Hall, the famed actor hosts The 1892 Battle of Homestead. It's the 125th anniversary of that violent attack by Pinkerton guards, hir…
New This Week Around the World in 80 Days (Hedgerow Theatre, Rose Valley). Hedgerow specializes in affectionate farcical renditions of epic adventures - with tiny (in this case, five-person)…
