Nearly 40 percent of the dancers in Pennsylvania Ballet will be replaced for the 2016-17 season, artistic director Angel Corella said Monday. Of 43 dancers, 12 were let go and five are leavi…
Machinal Presented by EgoPo Classical Theater, through May 8, at the Latvian Society, 531 N. Seventh St. Tickets: $25-$35. Information: 267-273-1414 or www.egopo.org.
Two years ago, I reviewed Roundabout Theatre Company's stylish production of Sophie Treadwell's Machinal on Broadway. I wondered then, given the play's dated gender politics and dated expres…
John Timpane is an Inquirer staff writer William Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616, making Saturday the 400th anniversary of his passing. He was baptized on April 26, 1564, although his act…
More than $2.6 million has been dispensed to 284 arts and cultural organizations around the city by the Philadelphia Cultural Fund, about the same number as last year.
BalletX is 10 this year, and the company is celebrating this weekend with a retrospective and a world premiere. The show opened Wednesday night at the Wilma Theater.
The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre is now running a sparkling, fast-paced revival of Twelfth Night. With stunning brilliance, Shakespeare turns the farce staple of mistaken identity into a…
Can a song save your life? When John Carney's movie Begin Again - with Keira Knightley as a heartbroken balladeer and Mark Ruffalo as a career-in-crisis record exec - debuted at the 2013 Tor…
NEW YORK (AP) - Anne Jackson, a Tony Award-nominated theater actress who often appeared onstage with her husband, Eli Wallach, in comedies and classics, died early Tuesday of natural causes …
M aestro James Levine, leader of the Metropolitan Opera in New York since 1976, has announced his retirement, according to a statement from the opera company. The statement said Levine will …
The man of the moment on Broadway is, without question, Alexander Hamilton. With all the hoopla and hubbub, it's tempting to think all the other shows are Aaron Burr.
The conceit of the collaboration is "a night of dance listening and organ watching." So, with the grand Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ looming relâche above us, a smaller organ reigned on …
LONDON (AP) - Music producer David Gest, ex-husband of Liza Minnelli, dies at 62.
T he Independence Studio on 3 at the Walnut Street Theatre might be the smallest spot Patsy Cline (Jenny Lee Stern) has ever played. But what a difference a venue makes to the success of thi…
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T he "butcher and his fiend-like queen" stalk the boards again in this thrilling and savage production of Macbeth at the Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre. Director Carmen Khan has …
NEW YORK - The place, the subject and the performers all buoyed Charlie Parker's Yardbird on its Friday opening at the famous Apollo Theater in Harlem into the sort of event that allowed Ope…
The Doctor Faustus of Christopher Marlowe's play sought all the pleasures and knowledge that mortal life could offer. Quintessence Theatre's production equals his quest by showing all the ma…
"I don't roll on the floor," said Meredith Rainey, one of Philadelphia's best-loved (and tallest) ballet dancers, during the post-show Q & A, "It's a long way down." Yet,…
Philadelphia Artists' Collective has gently transformed the dignified and beautiful Broad Street Ministry into a circus tent, with red and white banners and strings of colored lights. The oc…