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The idea for Michael Ogborn's Café Puttanesca springs from a supposed custom of Italian prostitutes, who would gather together after a busy working night. Each is supposed to bring some lef…
In his exquisitely written and imaginatively crafted new play Anna in the Tropics, Nilo Cruz entwines the novel with his play. The result is at once moving and magical.
Interview with Nilo Cruz.
La Vie en Bleu, the boldly ambitious musical that opens the Walnut Street Theatre's season, takes us all the way from Picasso's arrival in Paris at the turn of the century through the creation of his anguished masterpiece Guernica, devoted to the victims of a Basque village killed by German bombs in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War.
I saw this show on Sunday. What a huge disappointment it was.
Making a rare move, the Walnut Street Theatre is staging a new musical. "La Vie en Bleu" is a reworked French import about the great painter's life in Paris.
The next two weeks will see a wealth of music, theater, dance and other events.
The Kimmel is still sorting its way through what audiences want. In May, it presented the trenchant one-woman confessions of Elaine Stritch with great pride in the artistic statement the program made, but found an audience that could fill only 54 percent of the house on a one-week run - even with many tickets deeply discounted.
"We probably didn't realize how un-mainstream she was," Price said.
The Philadelphia Theatre Initiative has awarded $515,000 to 12 Philadelphia-area theaters, and, for the first time, $40,000 to four theater artists.
With Danny Zolli.
The economy continues to perform at a less than optimum level, but that doesn't seem to stop people from buying theater tickets. The recently concluded season was a good one at the box offic…
The year's best performers, including well-deserved nods for Raùl Esparza and Christine Andreas.
It's not every day that the Philadelphia Orchestra becomes part of a play. When something so rare is brought off with the flair and imagination that marked Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, the November collaboration between the orchestra and the Wilma Theater in Verizon Hall, then it deserves a place among the season's high points.
Let's make that the high point, and take it as the start for a retrospective of the just-ended 2002-03 Philadelphia theater season.
John Henry Redwood, 60, an actor who turned to writing plays because he said he could not find enough good roles, died June 17 at his home on Fernon Street in South Philadelphia.
As a dramatist, Mr. Redwood's best-known work was The Old Settler, a dissection of the tense bond between two sisters. It was widely produced and staged in Russia and France and won a 1997 American Theatre Critics award.
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link.
As the bizarre business that is Squonk Opera's BigSmörgåsbørdWünderWerk unfolded on the stage of the Prince Music Theater, I kept thinking of the remark that Noël Coward reportedly made to Liberace: "I don't know quite what it is that you do, but you do it very well."
Throughout the first act and into the beginning of the second, the reaction of the audience at Tuesday's opening night of the musical Grease had been restrained. But at the opening of the se…
The 'American Idol' flap is dust - and now Frenchie Davis is lighting up Broadway with her voice and plus-size, fantastic self.
Frankie Avalon, a Philadelphia native, is once again taking to the stage, this time as Teen Angel in a production of “Grease” at the Academy of Music.
A couple of weeks ago, Tom Meehan, who cowrote the books for the smash-hit musicals The Producers and Hairspray, took a plane to Los Angeles - a destination that says much about the directio…
The new play that the Philadelphia Theatre Company is producing is called A Picasso, as in a painting by Pablo Picasso, but it might just as well be titled Picasso. The great 20th-century ar…
