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Theater is one of the live arts, but you would barely know it from Amaryllis Theatre Company’s sobering production of celebrated Irish playwright Conor McPherson’s Dublin Carol.
Broadway smash The 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee is something less than smashing in a new co-production between New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse and Philadelphia Theatre Company on …
A lot happens in the four-act play, but little changes—but under Kathryn MacMillan’s direction in a powerfully affecting production by Lantern Theater Company, inertia has never …
The Arden Theatre Company opens the season on its F. Otto Haas Stage with a disappointing production of Bertolt Brecht’s and Kurt Weill’s play with music The Threepenny Opera.
Carrie is fun, but Brat Productions lacks its usual fire.
Playwright Jeffrey Hatcher is responsible for a wealth of entertaining plays: the theatrical Compleat Female Stage Beauty, the amusing story of homicide among the elderly Murderers, and Thre…
Arden Theatre production tackles a tough topic with great dialogue, acting.
Let's look back at the top shows, performances and designs from a year in local theater that, by almost any measure, was a smashing success.
Since first premiering back in 2004 as part of the Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe, Bruce Graham's "The Philly Fan" has enjoyed several sold-out runs.
The Arden Theatre concludes its season with Stephen Sondheim's timeless A Little Night Music, one of the finest shows in the company's 25-year history.
In 2010, 1812 Productions' co-founder and artistic director Jennifer Childs set out to explore how women use comedy in their everyday lives and how this usage changes as they age. Three year…
Ten years after its debut, Seth Rozin's staging of InterAct Theater Company's marvelous drama still hits home.
The Philadelphia Theatre Company is back on sure footing with Seminar, a splendid production of Theresa Rebeck's accomplished drama about love and literature.
Overall vibe: Punk rock. Kicking down the Fourth Wall with the unsettling anarchy of the Sex Pistols, the company of actors storm the Lantern Theater House as house manager Ryan Pollock impl…
Mary Martello began acting at seven. Fifty years later, she's just completed what may have been the finest performance of her career: playing the cruel, desperate Mag in Lantern Theater's sc…
By far the most interesting scenes in Assassin are when Robson examines the limited shelf life of professional athletes and the toll football takes on its players' bodies. Despite walking wi…
In a work not for the faint of heart, Simpatico Theatre Project and the Renegade Company are presenting an affecting co-production of The Amish Project, playwright Jessica Dickey's powerful …
The Philadelphia Orchestra, Louis C.K., Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival and more!
Not only is this one of the busiest times on area stages, but history has shown that January and February typically spawn many of the season's best productions. With that in mind, we've asse…
Leslye Headland's comedy Assistance, currently on stage at the Wilma Theater, is not a great play. It is, however, one that will inspire much discussion about the nature of theater and how t…
Film and theater are entirely different mediums, and comparing Les Mis's current incarnations is difficult"and perhaps unfair. That said, with the possible exception of Hugh Jackman's perfor…
It's impossible to say precisely what will happen in Philadelphia theater in 2013; after all, one of the art form's greatest virtues is its unpredictability. No matter how many times a produ…
The weather outside is far from frightful, so thankfully nothing has dampened the spirits of the spunky foursome serving up a feast of holiday songs, with a lively side of snappy patter and …
