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Two veteran writers cemented a friendship collaborating on the Broadway hit. The musical comes to the Merriam on Tuesday.
The first show in the new Broadway season, the story of John Lennon's life and death, opened Sunday night and, if I had disposable cash, I'd bet on it to be the first big hit of the season.
The nominations are the most for one company in the 11 years the Barrymores have been presented.
Granted: Stratford and Niagara-on-the-Lake are two charming, flower-filled Canadian towns combining famous annual theater festivals with horse-drawn carriages and lovely B&Bs.
One of the most revered couples in the entertainment industry - Ruby Dee and the late Ossie Davis - will be honored by the city in October as recipients of the 2005 Marian Anderson Award.
The world is full of physical beauty and genuine talent encased in the same person. So Vanessa Williams' 20-plus zigzagging years in show business were by no means assured.
Broadway/TV star Bebe Neuwirth and the Philadelphia Orchestra had an awkward collaboration on Wednesday, with Neuwirth at her best when the orchestra was least in evidence and the orchestra sounding like itself only in elaborate orchestrations that left little room for her inventive lyric readings.
Somehow, the concert ended with a standing ovation.
It's a 90-minute contradiction. The star is sincere to a fault, yet the entire enterprise seems artificial.
Just because Bebe Neuwirth is making her Philadelphia Orchestra debut on Wednesday at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts doesn't mean she's any stranger to the podium.
The company has attracted two attractive leads in Keith David and Jasmine Guy, but squandered their talent on Jan de Hartog's The Fourposter, a piece of antique furniture that hardly needed …
Led by three prominent city theaters that each ended the season with what was or promises to be its largest-drawing production ever, several area theater administrators were euphoric over ti…
As the season closed, fewer outstanding shows were in contention for the Inquirer's Top 10 list than there have been in the past.
Onstage at The Fantasticks at the Walnut Street Theatre's Independence Studio, there's musical history on the periphery: harpist Walter Pfeil. Soon to turn 80, the trim, dapper, bearded Pfei…
The Philadelphia Theatre Initiative will distribute the Pew Charitable Trusts funding, which is higher than in 2004.
