Playwright glad to open in Ambler By Dianna Marder

Jeff Baron is a New York-based playwright whose critically acclaimed work has been performed in Greece, Mexico, Germany...

To be fair to the lady, she gave voice to stars By Karen Heller

Chances are Marni Nixon sang in your living room, again and again and again.

Black "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" astounds By Howard Shapiro

Kimmel's next season: More than 200 events By Peter Dobrin

Broadway shows - critical to the Kimmel's ability to balance its budget - are to include Legally Blonde: The Musical; Happy Days - A New Musical; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; Spring Awakening, and (in a collaboration with the owners of the Forrest Theatre) A Chorus Line.

His aim is to unite two kinds of theater By Wendy Rosenfield

Playwright, director, actor and producer Je'Caryous Johnson, 30, wants to add one more title before his name: uniter.

In 'Raisin,' Combs can't get past his inner Diddy By Jonathan Storm

The looks thrill By Toby Zinman

A vintage Sondheim/Lapine collaboration (1984), the show has been dazzlingly restyled by 32-year-old director and London wunderkind Sam Buntrock.

The Goons: You sort of had to be there By Wendy Rosenfield

Professional theater will perform students' work By David King

'Macbeth' with so much blood in it By Toby Zinman

InterAct 20 years active - very active By Stephan Salisbury

Political theater still rules.

Actors stand out in a cliched drama about Latinos By Toby Zinman

Lloyd Webber's 'Wind' blows back By David Patrick Stearns

Nina Simone's girl found her own voice By A.D. Amorosi

A star on Broadway, she's bringing out her debut album.

'Springer' a white elephant of a show By David Patrick Stearns

Though an accomplished, entertaining, musically sophisticated and dramatically uncompromising look at American culture at its freakiest, the opera (and it is an opera, more than Les Miserabl…

'Muppet geek' is far from Sesame Street By Wendy Rosenfield

Marian Anderson, in true character By Howard Shapiro

Musical delusions, played for sympathy By Wendy Rosenfield

Ann Crumb portrays "singer" Florence Foster Jenkins in Media Theatre's "Souvenir."

'Sheba,' at more than 50 . . . is still powerful in revival By Howard Shapiro

Albee's playful take on a recurring serious theme By Toby Zinman

It is entertaining and thought-provoking, full of bizarre segues and the playful wordplay that is signature Albee.

The footlights will be bright and stages stir with life again

After a brief Scrooge-filled lull, the Philadelphia region's theater season is roaring back, with many major openings in the coming months.

Pondering a different Freedom Theatre By Stephan Salisbury

With persistent debt and the departure of its leader, the venerable Freedom Theatre must ponder its future role.

Miller's 'Price' returns to Walnut 40 years later By Wendy Rosenfield

This 'Butterfly' needs to float a little more By Toby Zinman

3 amigos of comedy: Luther, Faustus, Hamlet By Howard Shapiro