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New This Week Black Nativity (Theatre Horizon) This reiminaging of Langston Hughes' iconic play ranges from Africa to New Orleans, employing gospel and dance to tell the Christmas story. Pre…
The dance world has gained a lot of exposure in recent years from reality TV, YouTube, and social media.
Shows like Dancing With the Stars and So You Think You Can Dance have led to more loo…
At the talkback, instead of predictable questions like how or when did you think of doing this duet, I'd have asked about the chalk circles. Were they geometric maps for them to follow or we…
To celebrate a half-century of making dances, the much-honored Twyla Tharp is leading her troupe on a multicity tour that features a pair of brand-new works. It just completed a run at the A…
Postmodernist art practice supplanted the avant-garde in the latter decades of the last century, but artists still dig far into the past for inspiration, making the arts a profession heedles…
'Another opening, another show . . . Our Philly comp'nies are all aglow. . .." So went the song from Kiss Me Kate, modified to open Theatre Philadelphia's 2015 Barrymore Awards on Monda…
Though the name on the marquee of the sold-out run of this world premiere at Connecticut's Hartford Stage is Kevin Bacon, the real stars of "Rear Window" are the windows -- not to mention th…
It's not yet the Fifth of November, but Arden Theatre Company still remembers England's Gunpowder Plot, via Bill Cain's 2009 drama Equivocation. Cain, a Jesuit priest, explores the entanglem…
It's time once again for the annual Barrymore Awards ceremony honoring the crème de la crème of local theater.
Is there some unwritten rule that if a Broadway musical has enough clever choreography, snappy tunes, and human traffic onstage you can get away with confoundedly stupid writing? Or "st…
The idea for the work came to the pair when Jacek Kaspszyk told them about a pianist who "was drunk or afraid and escaped through the bathroom window rather than attempt to play the concerti…
Pennsylvania Ballet opened its season, the first entirely programed by Angel Corella, Thursday night at the Academy of Music, looking like a very different troupe from a year ago. The compan…
The night was a roller coaster of pain wrung out with joy, middle fingers upraised.
Once upon a time, you could take the measure of a Philadelphian by his or her reaction to the name Frank Rizzo. As Bruce Graham's Theatre Exile world-premiere play Rizzo makes abundantly cle…
The score to “Bullets Over Broadway” should be familiar, even if you’ve never seen the musical based on the Woody Allen movie of the same name.
In a bold move aimed at making Philadelphia a compelling stop on the opera-lover circuit, Opera Philadelphia is restructuring its season to create an opera festival each September that would…
Is the Pennsylvania Ballet developing a Latin flavor? Since last year, fans of this 50-year-old institution have wondered what form the company would take under its new artistic director, An…
With fall in full swing and colder months ahead, the Philly theatre world is starting to heat up in a big way. Many companies have started rolling out their current production seasons, but h…
Philly's newish Irish Heritage Theatre has made its way through two-thirds of Sean O'Casey's Dublin Trilogy. Last season featured The Shadow of a Gunman, that drawing back of the curtains on…
Ayad Akhtar's smart, brutal drama Disgraced will be the most-produced play in the country this season. Philadelphia Theatre Company gets the first local crack at it, with a visually satisfyi…
The Pennsylvania Ballet held its black-tie gala, Barcelona on Broad, at the Union League in Philadelphia on Oct. 9. The Spanish-theme evening celebrated artistic director Angel Corella's her…
The Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts will return in the spring of 2016 - delayed a year and noticeably smaller, but decidedly international in flavor.
A new era for dance swept into Philadelphia with the opening night Wednesday of NextMove at Chestnut St. Prince Theater.
Broadway megastar Audra McDonald will discuss her life and career — and sing a few tunes — Wednesday at the Merriam Theater.
