There's something funny about 'Adrift' By Douglas J. Keating

Adrift in Macao is funny in more than one sense of the word.

The heart goes on By Annette John-Hall

Tomorrow, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis receive the Marian Anderson Award. Dee will accept with pride for her late husband and activist partner.

A musical send-up of film noir By Desmond Ryan

With August Wilson's "Gem of the Ocean" running in Princeton, Phylicia Rashad, the play's star, and others reflect on the poetic gifts Wilson left the American stage. By Desmond Ryan

Small town, in a minor key By Douglas J. Keating

Her sun came out By Jonathan Storm

At 5, Philadelphia's Laura Breckenridge began her showbiz climb by sing along to "Annie." At 22, she costars in a new TV show, "Related." Bet your bottom dollar, she'll go far.

Musical mirth: O, what a beautiful spoofing By Desmond Ryan

Arden, PTC lead in honors By Desmond Ryan

A gay ballplayer and a demon barber split the top honors at last night's Barrymore Awards, which were dominated by the Arden Theatre and Philadelphia Theatre Company.

An Appreciation: Great plays of everyday city people By David Patrick Stearns

Boss-inspired piece tells fractured tale By Ellen Dunkel

Following Twyla Tharp's great success marrying dance and the music of Billy Joel in the Broadway show Movin' Out, many other dance and theater directors have tried to do the same with other …

A smash hit directing, just as she was performing By Douglas J. Keating

When the cast of The Boy Friend called their neophyte director, Julie Andrews, to the stage to wish her a happy birthday following the curtain calls at Saturday's opening performance at the …

Julie Andrews, full circle By Desmond Ryan

She made her Broadway debut as a terrified 19-year-old in "The Boy Friend" - the touring show she's now directing in Wilmington. The spectacular voice is silenced but, at 70, she's busier th…

The Earp menfolk are sorely missed By Douglas J. Keating

Tombstone without testosterone By Douglas J. Keating

Where were the womenfolk as the boys shot up the OK Corral? At the saloon, with plenty to say - as imagined in the new all-female stage musical "I Married Wyatt Earp."

Wilma makes a conventional 'Wife' By Desmond Ryan

By doubling Doug Wright's Pulitzer Prize- and Tony-winning play, I Am My Own Wife, from a solo performance to a piece for two actors, the Wilma Theater's production offers a peculiar instanc…

A fate worse than death, in her eyes: Reincarnation By Desmond Ryan

With his uneven comic fantasy of the afterlife, Miss Witherspoon, Christopher Durang at least reminds us that one person's idea of heaven can be another's vision of hell.

Sure things and more on Broadway By Desmond Ryan

At the end of 'Rainbow,' only the songs still shine By Desmond Ryan

'Loot', certainly in this staging, isn't the treasure it used to be By Desmond Ryan

'Melissa Gilbert' all about you-know-who By Howard Shapiro

Silent-screen 'Hunchback' gets musical accompaniment By David Patrick Stearns

The Prince Music Theater has a tradition of showing classic films on a large screen as well as exploring the endless possibilities of words, music and storytelling live and onstage. Why not …

FALL ARTS PREVIEW 2005 By Douglas J. Keating

Juicy dramatic tension - and musicals and comedy

Inqlings | 'Santorum' sings, on the Fringe By Michael Klein

Rick Santorum's public utterances, set to music?
(The Philly Fringe festival must be in town.)

An expanded Fringe By Douglas J. Keating

Philly's annual out-of-the-mainstream arts festival is spreading out this year.

Inqlings By Michael Klein

You might say the Merriam Theatre's stage was too close for comfort for Jim J. Bullock.