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The puzzling play has something to do with dreams. Or maybe not.
A play bearing much of the Bard.
HELP WANTED: Actor, young, male. Must recite lines, maintain character while walking to/fro 10 feet above stage on tightrope. Credible French accent a plus!
Some Philadelphia operagoers have an all-too-sensible golden rule: Never buy tickets for something whose duration is shorter than the travel time required to get to it.
In this production, Teach is played by Tracy Letts, actor-turned-Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (August: Osage County; Bug; Killer Joe) turned actor again. He is the best Teach I've ever seen. Actually, this is the best American Buffalo I've ever seen.
Language Rooms is colored in shades of Abu Ghraib.
Of course, these aren't the first performers to pay homage to the Bard, but their anarchist, itinerant, do-it-yourself troupe - which, with West Philly's Puppet Uprising, is co-staging a fiv…
"Happily Ever After" is not only the title of Mary Martello's first play, but the upbeat theme of her more than 50 years in the theater.
You know a play is timely when the director consults newspapers, TV, radio, and the Internet constantly to see if the script needs updating.
He wasn't on any Hollywood short lists when he signed on to do Teach, but he had other options. "It's not like people were knocking down my door with the greatest jobs I've ever wanted, but I certainly turned down a lot of stuff that I didn't want to do," said Danza. But later, an opportunity came up he wished he could have taken - he had to say no to a Broadway show, La Cage aux Folles, he said.
The Arden Theatre Company's production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, as it has been cut and cast and focused by director Matt Pfeiffer, takes a while to hit its tragic stride. But once …
Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue is a short, evocative play about three generations of men in a Latino family who go to war.
The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts is shrinking its budget, curtailing programming, and trimming staff by about 13 percent.
Amanda Schoonover and Madi Distefano are the title characters in "A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking."
That ker-CHUNK! you're hearing after the storm isn't confined to the clots of snow falling from trees and rooftops. You can sense the sound inside Plays & Players Theatre, too, where Bruce Graham's terrific new Any Given Monday, a funny and mesmerizingly dark adventure set in a family room somewhere in Philadelphia, is in its world premiere.
They referred to the renowned opera soprano Maria Callas as La Divina, and awarded her with curtain calls galore - at one point, 27. So as a moniker, La Divina is already taken. No problem. You can call Ann Crumb, simply, Divine.
