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Hopes of getting out of debt are waning, with a skimpy endowment and concern over new rivals.
Rasputin rises again, in a promising musical scored by a Delco rocker/composer.
Once, "home" was a car. Now, it's a 26-room mansion. Tyler Perry, urban theater impresario, has moved to the next frontier, with a first film opening tomorrow.
You'd think theater critic and artistic director Robert Brustein would be sick of actors by now.
MOVE, the musical?
Philly's Olive Dance Theatre and Goodie Goodie Productions are mounting a dance-theater piece based on the so-called back-to-nature group that engaged authorities in two deadly confrontations.
The Prince Music Theater has postponed its next scheduled production - the premiere of Einstein's Dreams, which was to begin performances Feb. 26 - and is replacing it with the latest tourin…
Good Vibrations makes a compelling case for the argument that the next person who thinks it would be nice to cobble together a musical from the Beach Boys' beloved songbook should be run over by a little deuce coupe.
Can you spell b-e-t-t-e-r t-h-a-n B-r-o-a-d-w-a-y?
Tracey Scott Wilson's The Story is a provocative, if overloaded, play that is also a chastening occasion to ponder the story of the dramatic decline of journalism's public image in the three…
Read Linda Lavin's biography in the program for her cabaret performance at the Prince Music Theater, and you see what impressive acting credits she has amassed since her New York theater deb…
Mayor Street says arts and culture groups in the region need a new revenue stream that he estimates would be between $50 million and $100 million each year, and he is working quietly on a me…
The Stephen Sondheim score is well worth rediscovering, while the Arthur Laurents book is just as worthy of the obscurity the show has suffered.
In this innocuous, blandly scored, but quite pleasant reading of Louisa May Alcott's cherished and enduring novel of family life in the Civil War years, the three siblings are even more in t…
Janet Cooke's Pulitzer scandal converges with race and class issues in Tracy Scott Wilson's "The Story," now at Plays & Players.
It wouldn't take much for the revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical Anyone Can Whistle, opening Saturday at the Prince Music Theater, to go more smoothly than the original production did a…
In The Secret in the Wings, Mary Zimmerman offers a selection of especially grim fairy tales arranged in a narrative that tells them twice upon a time.
The Boyd Theatre, Philadelphia's last movie palace, is to be saved under a deal that will allow Clear Channel to stage concerts, musicals and Broadway-sized productions there, Mayor Street i…
Sometimes, when Ron McLarty is holding his book cover in his hand - something he does a lot - "I just get teary about it. It's an emotional time."
