Three buses of friends and family cheered a local performer's star turn.
Aaron Lazar’s mother Cheryl had vowed to rent a bus and bring a crowd if he made it to Broadway. Lazar, 25, an understudy in "Phantom," stepped in while one of the leads was on vacation.
The musical comedy, primed by "The Producers," embarks on a quest for the Tony grail.
This opening features a plucky teenager as a producer, a musical with controversial themes, and volunteers trying to revive a small-town theater.
The Walnut Street Theatre - America's oldest - bested its junior rivals, landing the most Barrymore Award nominations of any playhouse in town.
In the spring of 1904 it lasted 64 performances on Broadway, a good enough run in those days to be revived with the same cast, including John Barrymore, for another month later the same year.
It's directed with a command of both the characters and the language by Rick Sordelet, who also happens to be the busiest fight choreographer on Broadway...
Stratford upon the Schuylkill? A big season for Shakespeare
David Birney, as the ghost of John Barrymore, makes the evening his own, playing mentor to the unskilled actor portrayed by John Patrick Hayden in "I Hate Hamlet."
Usually, college students are preparing to become professionals. But Philadelphia's newest professional theater company opens this week at Temple University, and it's composed mostly of stud…
The drama at the Prince Music Theater in Center City is fast reaching a climax.
A work in progress, Klass Klown is John Leguizamo's autobiographical solo show; it's been touring the country for the last year and a half and is currently at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre. If…
Philadelphia's InterAct Theatre Company production of When We Go Upon the Sea, an intriguing world premiere in Center City this spring, has avoided the sea but taken to the road - Off-Broadway, where it's arrived at full throttle.
What a pity that electrical problems in Center City last week forced Amaryllis Theatre Company to cancel two performances of I Am My Own Wife at the Adrienne Theatre. That meant less time for actor Charlie DelMarcelle to strut his formidable stuff.
In I Am My Own Wife, playwright Doug Wright tells the true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf - a German transvestite who despite her dicey sexual identity somehow survived both the Nazi regime and the Communist dictatorship that followed - with a single actor playing three dozen roles.
Kate McCauley Hathaway, a Mount St. Joseph Academy alumna and mom of Anne Hathaway, has a summer job. She'll star in Cape May Stage's production of I Hate Hamlet!, opening June 17 at the Robert Shackleton Playhouse in Cape May. Also cast are John Patrick Hayden, Karis Danish, Marlena Lustik, David Birney, and Anthony Reimer.
Several Philadelphia theater artists make at least part of their livelihoods creating special effects for the stage, but Cousineau, 39, is inarguably the regional stage's master wizard.