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Drama, musicals, comedy, satire, Shakespeare, farce, gospel - from S. Broad St. to The Shore, from Rose Valley to Center Valley, this summer will be rich with theater, boosted by a reinvigor…
A summer of substance and introspection - with a touch of fluff at the end.
Scott Carter's clever comedy, "The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord," now at Lantern Theater Company is about how funny life after death i…
Jesus and Jefferson
In "The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord," at the Lantern Theater through July 2, the three great men, toge…
"Fun Home," an adaptation of Lock Haven-born graphic novelist Alison Bechdel's 2006 memoir, opens Tuesday in Philly. The author and the musical's star, Katherine Shindle, explain why it's be…
Hedgerow Theatre is presenting the multi-plot, 20-character "Midsummer Night's Dream" with six actors in 90 minutes. And they pull it off, with a fantastically streamlined script and some sm…
LONDON (AP) - Pop star Ariana Grande surprised young fans injured in the Manchester Arena attack, hugging the thrilled little girls in their hospital beds as they recovered from injuries sus…
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) - Two New Jersey theaters have canceled shows by comedian Kathy Griffin after she posed with a likeness of President Donald Trump's severed head.
David Lee White's "Fixed," at the Passage Theatre in Trenton through May 21, is trying to do something valuable and difficult: To tell of friends with mental illness in their midst. When fam…
Racial and class resentments bring neighborhood tensions to a boil in Theatre Exile's "Buzzer." Written by Tracey Scott Wilson of "The Americans," this edgy play portrays addiction, sexual h…
New This Week Brighton Beach Memoirs (Act II Playhouse, Ambler). Neil Simon's first "Eugene" play follows a teen as he stumbles toward manhood in Depression-era Brooklyn. Tuesday t…
Tina Fey stopped by The Tonight Show on Wednesday, where the Upper Darby native told host Jimmy Fallon that her upcoming Mean Girls musical is "moving along," and teased the upcoming season …
James Ijames' "White," now at Theatre Horizon in Norristown, adds to a growing body of plays tackling the issue of racial conflict in the increasingly diverse and allegedly post-racial Unite…
UArts Tony-nom trio
University of the Arts alum Lucas Steele is up for a Tony for best featured actor in a musical for Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812, which last week attracted t…
Haunting, and atmospheric, Jacqueline Goldfinger's compelling new play, The Arsonists, premieres at Azuka Theatre.
True love's formula, per classic Disney princess custom: First, a storybook romance. Next, a lavish castle wedding. Then, a lifetime of "happily ever after."
New This Week The Arsonists (Azuka Theatre). A Southern Gothic myth about a father-daughter arson team; the last of a Jacqueline Goldfinger trilogy. Through May 21.
NEW YORK (AP) - The stage play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" has become London's theater event of the year. Now Broadway will shortly be under its spell, too.
Hal Holbrook brings his long-famed one-man show Mark Twain Tonight! to the Kimmel Center Thursday night. After 62 years and 2,200 performances, he says Twain is as fresh and cantankerous and…
From 'Glee' to Shakespeare
The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival often brings in big theater names for the summer. True to that tradition, the fest has announced that Dan Domenech (Glee and…
In the spotlight for a breakout role in "Significant Other," the Lower Merion High School alum tries to maintain what he calls his "Gideon-ness."
SALEM, Mass. (AP) - John Legend is expected on a Massachusetts college campus this week to receive a social justice award.
NEW YORK (AP) - Bruce Springsteen and Tom Hanks paid tribute Friday night to the late director Jonathan Demme, the man who brought them together on his film "Philadelphia," which won each of…
