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It's been 21 years since she played Annie in the film version of that Broadway musical hit. But Aileen Quinn is still a child at heart.
WILLARD G. ROUSE III, 1942-2003 by Peter Dobrin
Willard Goldsmith Rouse III, 60, the overachieving, cantankerous real estate developer who shattered the city's unofficial height limit and coaxed Philadelphia's artscape to a previously unimaginable level of sophistication, died of lung cancer late Tuesday at his home in Phoenixville.
He was a great patron of the arts, and a key mover behind the new Kimmel Center.
Changing times and tastes shrink the outsized roles in two Broadway revivals.
The opening words in the Walnut Street Theatre production of Evita come from Che. He tells the audience to turn off cell phones and beepers and not take pictures.
He then grabs hold of a dangling rope, is lifted into the flies, and the musical proper gets under way.
If you go to the world-premiere run of Green Violin at the Prince Music Theater - and you should, if you have any interest in the way theater reinvents itself in different eras, or if you ad…
After decades of irrelevance and indirection, musical theater has stumbled on a new formula to revitalize itself: mounting shows around the music of beloved pop artists.
Director Emily Mann is mounting a production of Uncle Vanya - one that she also adapted into English - that is so nicely balanced among the four principal characters that the play can be con…
Copying Chagall's way of making costumes.
Marc Chagall's 1920 encounter with the Soviet Yiddish Theater energized the artist, inspired the troupe, and formed the basis for "Green Violin," the klezmer musical having its world premier…
"Chicago," "Moulin Rouge!," "Gypsy": What binds these musical hot mamas together, and keeps us craving more? It starts with that itch to be stage front.
Because the new production of Oscar Wilde's Salome is a staged reading, there is no scenery for Al Pacino to chew. But he decides to go ahead and enjoy a full-course meal anyway.
The time has come for Audra McDonald to be recorded live.
Old City's Arden Theatre Company will bring fans, theater folk together for refreshments and chat.
One evening will include a tour of the set of "Pacific Overtures."
Understudies: Nobody wants to see them, but some shows could not go on without them.
Audiences at Broadway musicals aren't used to being addressed as adults. When it happens, it's shocking to realize what you've been missing: a popular form of art that doesn't pretend the wo…
Tony Curtis sticks to his own gender this time in a live musical "Some Like It Hot."
The Voysey Inheritance isn't produced often and deserves to be much better known.
I saw this last weekend. It's an excellent production, with superb performances by Paxton Whitehead and Blair Williams.
The first reaction to the touring production of Jesus Christ Superstar at the Merriam Theater is bemusement.
Shortly after composer Jason Robert Brown won the Tony Award for the Broadway musical Parade, his telephone answering machine carried a sardonic message: "You can find me flipping burgers at…
Yakov Smirnoff is attempting to increase his visibility with a show he has performed in several U.S. cities over the last few months. The two-nights-a-week show is previewing in New York, wh…
"Ambassador Satch," now playing the Prince Music Theater, began as a school project sketching the great jazzman's inspirational life. The show is an education - and hits high notes as entert…
