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Misty Copeland was showered with love and attention when she became the first African American principal ballerina at American Ballet Theatre last month. She received thousands of congratula…
NEW YORK - When the hymn "Amazing Grace" gets to the line about saving "a wretch like me," it's not routine self-flagellation. The author of the song was a wretch indeed,…
Whether shaking up Shakespeare or nodding to Elizabethan conventions, this summer four of the region's theater companies and festivals illustrate that there's more to the Bard than anything …
For much of her Broadway and film career, Idina Menzel - who, amazingly, is on her first major solo tour - has been a star, but a star at a certain remove.
Clashes between artists and technology-wielding patrons are intensifying. Last week, Patti LuPone grabbed a cellphone from a startled audience member as LuPone was making her exit at New Yor…
Actress Amanda Seyfried has learned to fight for a better salary on film sets after once discovering she was only receiving 10 per cent of what her male co-star was earning.
Can you revisit the magic, and perhaps repair the frustrations, of a childhood at once idyllic and a persistent source of contemporary stress? The folks at Bucks County Playhouse must have t…
IT HAS LONG been accepted that the only two absolutes in life are death and taxes. But here's a third: It's impossible for a Penn & Teller performance to be anything less than mesmerizing, m…
NEW YORK (AP) - At a time when most theater performers are paranoid about getting everyone to turn off their cellphones - hello, Patti LuPone - Penn & Teller want them on. And the ringer…
BalletX has made it a mission for nine years to present new choreography. Heading into its 10th anniversary season, it paused to inspect its collection of work by one artist, Adam Hougland -…
Ahead of his very recent musical ascension, Armani White says he destroyed himself, deleting from public view all his music on the Internet. Then he rebuilt, working with a new team of peopl…
It's a privilege to observe a dance rehearsal. After a while, you're not noticed. You become like that fly on the wall - the wall of a studio at the University of the Arts, where BalletX is …
NEW YORK - Idina Menzel, who has crossed over from the Broadway stage to the Billboard charts, is still surprised that she can sell concert tickets like a proper pop star.
BalletX is rehearsing for its summer run, opening Wednesday, at the Wilma Theater. In one corner, dancers try on shoes, speaking softly so as not to disturb the duet across the room, under t…
Comedic magicians Penn Jillette and mono-monikered (and Philadelphia-raised) Teller are coming to a TV near you Monday for the sophomore season of the CW's Penn & Teller: Fool Us.
Many Philadelphia theater practitioners do several things well, and sometimes they do them simultaneously. Even so, James Ijames stands out.
Harry Potter, the world's most famous boy wizard, is set to make his debut on the London stage next year in a new play called the Cursed Child which has been created in collaboration with au…
A nude Blanche du Bois in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. A barefoot production of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge. An operatic version of Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mount…
Toner, the author of several one-man plays, said he may apply himself more to his writing. In any case, he wants theater to remain a big part of his life.
