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In Philadelphia Theatre Company's production of 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, Judy Gold lets you know you're among mishpuchah (family) right from the get-go.
Broadway's big musical finishes, like those of "A Chorus Line" and "Hairspray," are the shows' last word to the audience.
You'd have to be the world's crankiest ogre to resist the witty, charming new musical that opened last night and gives Ugly the ultimate workover.
The new musical "Cherry Bomb" celebrates and cringes at the Cherry Sisters, the early-round American Idols of their day.
What's funnier than a washed-up comedian? Two washed-up comedians. If you believe that, Schmucks awaits you at the Wilma Theater. (There's an unprintable joke in there, somewhere.)
Up for a new holiday treat - something you've never seen before? OK, I've got it: It's a Wonderful Life.
There's a line director Whit MacLaughlin uses when one of his family shows at the Arden Theatre edges into perilous territory: "Oooh, I'm getting that children's-theater feeling."
The last time this newspaper reviewed Tony Braithwaite's one-man show Look Mom, I'm Swell, now at Ambler's Act II Playhouse, things weren't quite so peachy-keen.
The play uneasily straddles the divide between comedy and caustic comment, on Jeff Cowie's detailed and elegant multi-room estate set. What balance it has comes from a 13-member cast that gi…
Dark Play or Stories for Boys sounds like a story by a boy, full of self-importance, thrill-seeking and easy scorn.
Low public use of the arts center and an inferior acoustic are the top targets for planners.
Comic tale of lowlife greed has two fine Broadway debuts.
Sometimes authenticity just isn't worth it. Marie Jones' Rock Doves is so place-specific, so dependent on knowing and caring about the nasty slums of Belfast, so parochial in its Northern Irish accents and its Northern Irish politics, that an American audience is pretty much left out.
Broadway's 'Billy Elliot' has all the right moves.
