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Agrabah's corner stores might as well just go ahead and sell Tastykakes.
Stellar acting from a talented trio make Neil Simon's seldom-performed "I Ought to Be in Pictures," through March 15 at the Act II Playhouse in Ambler, a poignant experience. Jessica Riloff …
The Art Team is part of the Barnes' continuing effort to deepen its ties with its audience. Initiated by Shelley Bernstein, chief experience officer and deputy director of audience engagemen…
Leonard Bernstein's confrontational "A Quiet Place" is being staged by Curtis Opera Theatre in a chamber-size version at the Kimmel Center March 7, 9, and 11.
David Jacobi's "Ready Steady Yeti Go," world-premiering through March 11 at the Azuka Theatre Company at the Proscenium Theatre at the Drake, centers on a spectacular premise, but both the p…
Broadway Theatre of Pitman's 'Beehive' is a musical revue featuring more than 40 songs from the 1960s and '70s - and lots of women talking about men - but lacks a narrative thread.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Nanette Fabray, the vivacious, award-winning star of the stage, film and television, has died at age 97.
Marc D. Donovan and Keith J. Conallen play two unsteady men - flawed and floundering - with an intensity that demands to be seen.
"Why can't South Philly do theater?"
A new generation is appearing on the scene, but JoAnn Falletta has been making her mark on a male-dominated field for decades.
In Cycles of My Being, the tenor tells us what he sees, and what America sees.
The work that had felt so cutting edge back then? Now, at a time when the phrase "pussyhat" needs no explanation, it seems a little passe. Yup, we still have vaginas - or many of us do. But …
The Philadelphia Theatre Company is planning to produce three plays next season.
New versions of perennial favorites "Giselle" and "Romeo & Juliet" will be premiered in the 2018-19 season, artistic director Angel Corella announced.
The Curio Theatre Company's production of David Adjmi's deliberately anachronistic take on the French Revolution is quick-paced, unflagging in its energy, and filled with arresting visual im…
Laura Eason's uneasy "Sex with Strangers" is leading off the 25th anniversary of the Montgomery Theatre in Souderton, through Feb. 25. It's a good account of a play that resonates in our mom…
The Met also announced a $15 million gift from the Neubauer Family Foundation to support the music director position.
There may be sugar in the pies, but there's saccharine on the stage. Waitress, part of the Broadway Philadelphia series, is making a six-day stopover at the Forrest through Feb. 18, and, lik…
On Feb. 20 the star tenor and Opera Philadelphia artistic advisor world-premieres a song cycle meant to evoke the black male experience in America right now.
Cheltenham High grad David Light says the teleplay he cowrote about a cheerleader with a secret and the zombie football player who falls for her is about "humanity and openheartedness."
"Time Remembered," Jean Anouilh's charming play being performed through March 4 by the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium at Walnut Street Theatre Studio 5, is about the past, what Beckett …
Paige Davis returns to TLC and Trading Spaces
What unfolded Friday at the Academy of Music was a red-blooded opera rooted with the visceral appeal of the blood-and-guts I Pagliacci, thanks to director William Kerley and designer Tom Rog…
"The Revolutionists" is a mixed bag. Act 1 rambles, but intensity picks up as the Reign of Terror closes in. The brief trials of Charlotte, Marie Antoinette, and Olympe are well staged and a…
It's Philly Theatre Week, a celebration (Feb. 8-18) of all you can do onstage, from traditional plays and musicals (plenty of those) to song, dance, film, panels, cabaret, comedy, from the b…
