This is one of those rare plays that people fall in love with. Like Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, Alan Bennett's The History Boys is a big, juicy drama, full of interesting ideas as well as complex characters.
To understand the power of the stage, all you need do is get to the Suzanne Roberts Theatre to see the talented, endearing Lorenzo Pisoni in Humor Abuse, his one-man master stroke about growing up a clown.
The audience gets really involved in this show about stuff: An hour before they go to a tag sale.
Boeing-Boeing is now ready for takeoff. Be prepared to fall out of your seats.
Billy Crystal, 61, has taken his boyhood memories back on the road.
Nathan is played here with understatement and humility by David Strathairn, a film (Good Night and Good Luck, Cold Souls, and the forthcoming Howl), TV (The Sopranos), and theater veteran who also is a veteran of People's Light (Sally's Gone, She Left Her Name).
John McGlinn, "connoisseur of all things yummy," was eulogized, wept over, and lightly roasted at a memorial service for the conductor, who grew up in Philadelphia's suburbs, became a key fi…
Museum here chooses 18 Americans for its new gallery.
From the moment he entered the University of the Arts as a freshman, Jamison Foreman, now 21, had this in his head: By the time I graduate, I'll have written a musical.
The budget deal reached late Friday in Harrisburg, which includes an extension of the state sales tax to cultural performances and venues - including museums - has stunned and angered the ar…
This jolly, gaudy musical comedy opening the Walnut Street Theatre season is about two scam artists, dirty rotten scoundrels who work the Riviera, seducing money out of rich women.
Who better to star in this great musical, stuffed with clever, catchy songs? Well, somebody who can sing or dance or act might be nice.
The weird, weird West and other remarkable worlds await you at the Fringe.
Two hundred shows will pop up all over town in the next 16 days.
In Fla., God's Waiting Room, retirees flock to a show full of death and denture ditties.
The difference between a romantic goodbye and an irrevocable farewell has rarely been more pointed than in See What I Wanna See, the Michael John LaChiusa musical that is the University of t…
Broadway star Carol Channing and her childhood sweetheart married after 70 years apart.