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The Medium and Mahagonny Songspiel both leave their characters gasping in an atmosphere detached from reality.
"Peter and the Starcatcher," through May 20 at Theatre Horizon in Norristown, is an endlessly inventive, fantastical depiction of the supposed "backstory" of "Peter Pan." Here, director Matt…
One Cézanne painting fetched $1.5 million at a Freeman's auction Sunday of Campbell heiress Dodo Hamilton's household items. The second part of the estate sale - including a 16.56-carat dia…
In the Tony Award nominations announced Tuesday morning, Tina Fey's "Mean Girls" got 12 nominations, tieing "SpongeBob SqaurePants: The Musical" for most nominations. Other Philly-area tie-i…
"Can-Can," through May 13 at the Broadway Theatre of Pitman, N.J., is done with energy, with some good costumes, some great songs, and good performances, especially Angie Fennell as La Mome …
"Mean Girls," the Tina Fey musical now on Broadway, blows your hair right back. The audience went nuts for two and a half hours. And I expect it to be a favorite for years, especially among …
"Sing the Body Electric" at Theatre Exile is an intricately fashioned one-act that studies the scars left by our encounters with others and the natural world. It interweaves comedy and patho…
Christopher Chen's "Passage" (through May 13 at the Wilma Theater) is filled with deceived characters and challenges the audience to re-examine our attitudes toward political oppression. Bas…
A delightful, tight, kinetic "Sound of Music" (through April 29 at the Merriam Theater) entertained an audience ready to fall in love with the enduring musical all over again. And there's lo…
"The Philadelphia History Museum, the city's institutional attic of art and artifacts previously known as the Atwater Kent museum, has entered into talks with Temple University about a possi…
An audience member disrupted a performance of the play "Passage" at the Wilma Theater in center city on Thursday night, and an actor's Facebook post about the uncomfortable impasse went vira…
Has Tina Fey ever made you cry? She will now.
One of the reasons the 17-movement work is so rarely performed, despite Zappa's celebrity, is the fiendishly tricky rhythm in some spots. (You know how triplets are three-notes-in-two? One s…
The Cher Show is coming to Broadway this fall, and its cast includes two locals in big roles. Micaela Diamond, a Margate City native, will be one of three actors playing Cher at different pa…
NEW YORK (AP) - The producer of the Broadway production of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" has filed a countersuit against the executor of the late author's estate which challenged scre…
The proposed performing arts center site, at Haddon Avenue and Lake Street, likely will be subdivided to preserve its significant buildings and other features. Meanwhile, arts center advocat…
ASBURY PARK, N.J. (AP) - Bruce Springsteen treated his 92-year-old mother to an early birthday celebration before Mother Nature spoiled the party.
"Tell Me on a Sunday," through June 10 at the Walnut Street Theatre's Independence Studio on 3, is an Andrew Lloyd Webber miniature musical about a young woman in search of love. In spite of…
"Jennifer Higdon has been awarded the $100,000 Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Music Composition for 2018, given to contemporary classical composers of exceptional achievement 'who have sign…
"On Your Feet!: The Emilio & Gloria Estefan Broadway Musical" is heating up the Academy of Music stage through April 15. It may not be profound, but it's possibly the most fun you'll have in…
See Cinema Paradiso, Roman Holiday and Plan 9 from Outer Space as they were meant to be seen.
