"It was like going to church - a staple of life in Philadelphia," said McArdle, the first star of Annie on Broadway. She was 8 or 9 when she first appeared on Showcase.
On stage, Samia Merritt is all poise and presence - a diminutive dynamo with a lilting voice and a commanding air, delivering a monologue you can't look away from.
A wildly popular theatrical twist for the holidays.
The Light in the Piazza, a lovely chamber musical that just opened at the Philadelphia Theatre Company after major success in New York, gives us the current chick-lit dream come true: Mediterranean men are passionate and tender, and a trip to Italy will solve your problems ("You cannot say 'no' to these people!").
"Angels in America": This is the first time a Philadelphia company has produced both parts, "Millennium Approaches" and "Perestroika," in repertory as the playwright intended.
Rabbit Hole, by David Lindsay-Abaire, currently at the Arden Theatre and directed by James J. Christy, is a cathartic crowd-pleaser....
Tonight, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre of London begins a run through Saturday in the Annenberg Center at the University of Pennsylvania - where even now, someone is probably swearing off something in order to study, and we'll see how long that lasts.
The new play that opened Wednesday at the Wilma Theater seems to have been written by two completely different playwrights.
Under Nicholas Martin's clever direction, the McCarter Theater's production of She Stoops to Conquer: Or, The Mistakes of a Night is, simply, delectable.
Dan Simpson is already a serious theatergoer. He subscribes to the Arden, never misses a show by Amaryllis, and counts the Philadelphia Theater Company as one of his favorites. Yet he's neve…
Colman Domingo lovingly re-creates the neighborhood and sounds of his youth in the lauded Off-Broadway show "A Boy and His Soul."
There are two things you should know right away about Brat Productions' Haunted Poe: First, it's not scary so much as creepy, and second, I never even saw the roaches.
"Haunted Poe" turns literary tales of terror into a theatrical production staged in a converted warehouse.
For theater artists, it comes down to one big idea: Uniform high quality across the cast.