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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper are starring in a remake of "A Star is Born."
For the first time in decades, Barbra Streisand is singing dangerously. Often.
Not because her voice has suddenly regained what it has gradually lost over the years. When Streisand, 74, ope…
NEW YORK (AP) - Actor Fyvush Finkel, the plastic-faced Emmy Award-winning character actor whose career in stage and screen started in Yiddish theater and led to memorable roles in "Fiddler o…
Ray Croce Sr. will take the reins as interim artistic director of the South Camden Theatre Company, a nonprofit professional theater organization, the company's board of trustees announced F…
Changes coming to 'Radio Times'
The WHYY show Radio Times tweeted on Thursday: "Exciting changes coming to @whyyradiotimes. Starting next week, Marty will only do the interview for Hou…
Over the last few days, the #FirstSevenJobs trend on Twitter has taught us that Stephen Colbert once worked as a futon salesman and Lin-Manuel Miranda used to jockey a Slushee machine. And f…
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - A roundup of news from the Television Critics Association summer meeting, at which TV networks and streaming services are presenting details on upcoming programs.
Ask Polly Edelstein, artistic director of the Philadelphia Women's Theatre Festival, why female voices are important in the performing arts, and you'll get a sigh. "Oh, gosh, how long d…
Any Philadelphian who knows sports knows Ray Didinger. A statesman of football reportage, he's penned locker-room reports and gridiron stories for the Philadelphia Bulletin and Daily News, a…
Actors in Elizabethan theater companies always kept multiple roles in their heads, because these troupes performed multiple plays within a short period of time. Actors learned their lines in…
The show is all about finding love where it's least expected, as a spifflicated womanizer and a bootlegging bearcat couple up despite all odds.
As Americans for the Arts artist committee members, the two Bens made their way to Philadelphia for the organization's ARTSSPEAK Forum, which coincided with the Democratic National Conventio…
Before speaking at the Democratic National Convention tonight, Debra Messing stopped by the National Constitution Center's main stage to talk about television censorship under a possible Tru…
NEW YORK - One of the most recognizable voices in the history of movies has been silenced. Hollywood voice double Marni Nixon, whose singing was heard in place of the leading actresses in su…
If you don't see it now, Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope, now in production at Freedom Theatre, is one of those shows you won't see staged professionally again soon.
Imagine that two decades from now, some Broadway producer penning a jukebox musical about the music of Nirvana used Kurt Cobain's songs to depict a happy family life in the Pacific Northwest.
Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit is farce with an edge of darkness, a 1941 confection that suggested to wartime Londoners both the enduring bonds between the dead and the living and the tri…
Seeking to entice new audiences and build interest in Philadelphia theater, the Azuka Theatre will hit the boards next season with an unusual ticket strategy.
A new production of The Firebird reinvents the ballet - with puppets, animation, and more
Charles Busch - a man - is perhaps not the most obvious casting choice for a Rosalind Russell-type nun. But since he wrote The Divine Sister, a comedic homage to Hollywood nuns, opening at t…
Azesty revival of The Producers (2001), the Mel Brooks musical, is now running at the Broadway Theatre in Pitman, N.J. Once again we get to laugh at the desperate maneuvering of Max Bialysto…
Alice Gerstenberg would have been pleased at the sight of the Old Academy Players' One Act Bonanza in East Falls last weekend. Her He Said and She Said, a short play she wrote nearly a centu…
