August Wilson wrote better plays than Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, but never created a more charismatic gallery of characters who fight long and hard for a better life - and once achieving it, …
Alexander Sovronsky's family and his violin tie into the "Fiddler on the Roof" story.
John Wolfson's world-premiere play The Don seems curiously old-fashioned. However, since this is a comic drama about U.S. drug policy and the great gray area between good and evil, old-fashioned is sort of a sweet (and surprising) contrast to the grittiness or harder edges one might expect.
Philadelphia's Anthony Lawton delves into the human predicament in his writings and adaptations.
The songs of Girls Night: The Musical - timeless tunes such as "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," "Holding Out for a Hero," and the favorite of any bifocal bunch, "I Will Survive" - could play as the life soundtrack for the droves of middle-aged women who have packed the show in recent weeks.
Rodgers and Hammerstein Are Dead is funny from the very first line, when our Alaskan heroine trills, "It's my favorite time of the year / the half when the sun is out."
A smart, sophisticated musical revue called Closer Than Ever opened Off-Broadway 20 years ago - and it's just as smart and sophisticated today, in the polished production at Bristol Riversid…
Two-man musical about friendship: A success here, a flop in New York.
This world premiere racked up $437,000 in ticket sales, playing its 5 1/2 weeks at 95 percent capacity. To give some context, the company's previous best-sellers were Grey Gardens (2009) at $202,000 and The Happiness Lecture (2008) at $187,000.
The highly acclaimed actress will play the Forrest in "August: Osage County."
Shakespeare as nature lover is honored in gardens across the land. One in North Jersey could inspire area planters.
Neil LaBute's 'Fat Pig,' by Theatre Horizon, looks at thin vs. heavy people.
As Theatre Horizon prepared 'Fat Pig,' the group tripped on its own weighty attitudes.
In this world-premiere production of Lee Blessing's When We Go Upon the Sea, commissioned by InterAct Theatre Company, George W. Bush holes up in a Dutch hotel room the night before his tria…
It was much-anticipated, this world premiere. A new play. A major American playwright, Terrence McNally. A staging by the Philadelphia Theatre Company. A plot about opera - the same theme that had won him a Tony Award from an earlier world premiere, presented by the same company.
It opened Jan. 27 to a testy audience.
As it winds down its 10th-anniversary season, nagging questions persist about the always-edgy Azuka Theatre Company.
Why does it do so few shows? What the heck is an Azuka?
This is a story about one man in two plays simultaneously and a second - his name familiar, but not from playbills - who is aiding this seemingly impossible feat.
Independence Studio's Travels With My Aunt is a gently amusing, leisurely, and very British comedy adapted by Giles Havergal from the novel of the same title by Graham Greene.