Broadway theaters to stay open Tuesday night despite snow

NEW YORK (AP) - Broadway producers have decided to keep theaters open Tuesday night for the hardy folks willing to brave the snow and sleet.

Theater Beat: Great 'Ragtime'; turning tables at Abington Friends; Short Play Festival

New kid on the block. In West Chester, no less. The Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center at 226 N. High St. will launch its first mainstage production when Spamalot tromps the boards March …

Lithgow kills (or does he?) in true-crime parody 'Trial & Error' by Jessica Parks

'John & Jen' at Eagle Theatre: Forty years of music, love by John Timpane

Fascinating, moving 'Hamlet' at LOndon's Almeida Theatre by Toby Zinman

'Bridges of Madison County' author Robert James Waller dies

NEW YORK (AP) - Robert James Waller, whose best-selling, bittersweet 1992 romance novel "The Bridges of Madison County" was turned into a movie starring Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood and l…

TV picks: 'Hamilton's America,' 'Trial & Error,' 'Greenleaf' and more

Hamilton's America. If you missed this two-hour special about the creation of Lin-Manuel Miranda's sold-out musical, here's another chance to see some of the original-cast performances and l…

12 states, six weeks: Walnut Street Theatre's road warriors

'I have to look out the window to remember where we are," says Karen Peakes. "Oh, wait, OK. . . . There's a pier, with fishing boats, lobster trucks picking stuff up. We're in New …

Theater: New and Noteworthy

New This Week The Importance of Being Earnest (Walnut Street Theatre). One of the wittiest plays ever written, ever-fresh. Tuesday through April 30.

'Ugly Lies the Bone' at National Theatre: A little too ugly by Phillystage

Superb remaking of 'Hedda Gabler' at National Theatre by Toby Zinman

VOD Squad: 'Orphan Black's' Tatiana Maslany & 'Downton Abbey's' Tom Cullen as troubled lovers in 'The Other Half'

Superb remaking of 'Hedda Gabler' at National Theatre by Toby Zinman

'Profoundly affectionate': A splendid, surgically accurate play about intimacy by Toby Zinman

Sly, gender-bending 'Twelfth Night' at National Theatre by Toby Zinman

Dark, gory, deliciously authentic 'White Devil' at Shakespeare's Globe by Toby Zinman

American play is 'Ugly' at London's National Theatre by Jessica Parks

Sly, gender-bending 'Twelfth Night' at National Theatre by Jessica Parks

Theater Beat: Philly duo going Off-Broadway; Shirley Jones feted at BCP

I've lasted three whole columns! A personal record. Thanks for your reports of good theater - keep them coming! Jenny Lowman of Glenside highly recommends Tomfoolery, through April 2 at the…

John Legend's Philly connections tie 'Underground' to 'La La Land" by Jessica Parks

'Glee' star Lea Michele to kick off North American tour at Merriam Theater by Nick Vadala

Glee star Lea Michele will tour this spring in support of her upcoming album Places, and she's kicking things off right here in Philadelphia.

'Tomfoolery' at Act II Playhouse: A merry, cynical celebration of Tom Lehrer by John Timpane

Theater: New and Noteworthy

New This Week Coriolanus (Lantern Theater). Shakespeare's beautiful, noble, thorny last Roman play. Thursday through April 16. The Lyons (Isis/Walnut Street Theatre Studio 5). A family gathe…

From Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt, a '50 Song' musical autobiography by Dan Deluca

Airport worker 'saves the day' as Nicole Kidman arrives in BucksCo to start filming with Kevin Hart, Bryan Cranston