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In contrast to the Darwinian chaos of Broadway, London theater succeeds more on calculation than chance.
I saw this production Saturday. It was very well done, with three strong, charismatic leading performances.
Here are the winners of the Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre.
The revival of Equus by Mum Puppettheatre trotted away with five awards last night, edging out the musical Baby Case with four to become the most recognized production at the annual Barrymor…
Oscar-winner Eiki Oshioka — designer of the wild costumes for Cirque du Soleil's "Verekai" — creates another kind of show that must go on.
Phila.'s top black performing arts institution still faces money concerns. It plans classes and shows.
Sooner or later, singer Barbara Cook will be declared a national treasure.
It's Better With a Band begins with the song "It's Better With a Band" - and no band at all.
Most lawyers couldn't come up with a rhyme if you spotted them "moon" and "June." So when young and aspiring songwriter David Zippel decided to go to Harvard Law School, it seemed like a biz…
She Loves Me is a wispy musical whose modest charms are given a spirited advocacy in the Walnut Street Theatre production directed by James Brennan.
This is an excellent production; even my eleven-year-old niece liked it! It's probably the best-cast show I've seen at the Walnut, with wonderful performances from Brigid Brady, Linda Romoff and Larry Raiken.
Hairspray just sticks to you. It's loaded with original tunes you can actually sing. It depicts and projects a '60s sensibility - screwy, a little naive, and pivotal. It's an old-fashioned m…
VALDEZ, Alaska - This little town they call "the back of beyond," where the Alaskan pipeline ends and every restaurant menu offers reindeer sausage, is the last place you'd expect to find American theater's big guns.
But here they were: recent Tony winner Edward Albee, August Wilson, John Guare, Jack Gelber, Lloyd Richards, Joseph Chaikin.
Let's give out some Philly Awards for some theater well done - a season of variety, quality, and those fascinating surprises.
The American Bus Association, a trade group, ranks little Strasburg, eight miles east of Lancaster, as the No. 3 destination in the nation for theatrical tour groups. No. 1 is Broadway, and …
The more-trying stretches of the musical version of Lysistrata create the odd feeling that one is present at the birth of an entirely new theatrical genre: Greek travesty.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - For his swan song as artistic director of the highly regarded American Repertory Theatre, which he cofounded 22 years ago, Robert Brustein envisioned a light entertainment…
Review of "Barbra’s Wedding" by Daniel Stern.
Four years ago, Daniel Stern, a seasoned actor but fledgling playwright, was sitting at his desk in his Malibu home and getting nowhere with a two-character piece. It wasn't a case of writer…
Forty-eight performers will show off their pipes in an unconventional convention this week.
Broadway's recovery from Sept. 11 will be the backdrop to the Tony awards.
This Damn Yankees, directed by Malcolm Black, doesn't register the home run scored by the Walnut's highly successful My Fair Lady. The staging, choreography and familiar songs are all solidl…
When the 47th annual Obie Award winners were announced in New York on Monday night, Philadelphia theater director Whit MacLaughlin was among them.
