NEW YORK - The joint is jumping, but not necessarily in ways that originally made Ella Fitzgerald famous decades ago. Harlem's Apollo Theater remains a hub of African American musical cultur…
Here's a bit of gossip that will undoubtedly prove true: Bristol Riverside Theatre's production of Neil Simon's Rumors provides two hours of unashamedly hilarious entertainment.
In "Show No Show" at FringeArts, dancers Gabrielle Revlock and Aleksandr "Sasha" Frolov perform physical theater, conveying the awkwardness and power struggles of collaborating with someone …
Abby Mueller wows as Carole King, which is a challenging feat. King's voice is a tough one to get right. Mueller does more than shine in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, now at the Academ…
Modern Shakespeare productions sometimes take bizarre liberties with the Bard's work. But the daring presentation of Richard III now running at People's Light is an astounding staging and a …
My best guy friend and I live two blocks away from each other, and we share one very particular interest: Gilbert & Sullivan.
Long before Mean Girls, the 1988 film Heathers depicted high school women at their worst. Though it flunked at the box office, it became a cult classic that composers and lyricists Laurence …
Why does August Wilson's Two Trains Running, now at the Arden Theatre, run so well? The opening night audience laughed and clapped all night long, with a spontaneous final standing O.
One of Shakespeare's goofier comedies, As You Like It is currently whooping it up at Lantern Theater Company under Charles McMahon's direction.
Playwright Nicky Silver has grown up. His 2014 play Too Much Sun is a mature expression of his signature tragic view, retaining his barbed wit, quirkily motivated characters, and near-poetic…
Operagoers are used to not understanding all that happens onstage these days. What used to be antiquated theater is now a visually hot medium in which anything but traditional representation…
There are plenty of examples of iconic dancer/visual art collaborations - Degas' ballerinas, Jasper Johns' set for Merce Cunningham, John Sloan's Isadora Duncan - but one in particular has l…
If anybody could scorch a stage, it's these two sexy, talented actors, Matteo Scammell and Merci Lyons-Cox, who are currently starring in Theatre Exile's production of Smoke. But to really h…
There's a reason so many teenagers turn to punk music - it speaks to adolescence and to a very pointed, woke teenager, one who reveres antiestablishment politics or noncommercial art. And th…
Norristown's Theatre Horizon on Thursday opens Lobby Hero, Kenneth Lonergan's 2001 drama. Director Matthew Decker and cast will be unspooling a provocative comedy of errors embracing hot-but…
It's a safe bet the only thing standing between children and their ability to absorb the most challenging art is the adult with a limited imagination. There was no danger of that happening S…
As Pippin, the Tony-winning 1972 musical about the fictitious life of King Charlemagne's son and his struggles to claim the throne, comes to the Academy of Music stage Tuesday through Feb. 2…
Having hit the big screen in 1991, animated Disney classic Beauty and the Beast " based off a mid-1700s French fable " really is a tale as old as time. Now, 25 years later, that old story st…