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Pterodactyls, Nicky Silver's quirky, funny, sad social satire, is having a nifty revival by New City Stage.
Theatre Exile's production of The Lieutenant of Inishmore hits its gory stride in the second act when it gets Martin McDonagh's grisly glee just right.
Gallons of gore play a big part in two plays
Robert E. Leslie Sr., 76, of Southwest Philadelphia, cofounder of New Freedom Theatre in North Philadelphia, who championed bringing the performing arts to African American communities, died…
Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas presents a tribute to his grandparents, Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky.
Theatrically, when the ropes all work, it grabs you. As a live comic book, it does not.
The impish, two-ton-talented Tony Braithwaite is an actor who also sings and dances on many area stages, as well as a writer and performer of one-man shows, a three-time Barrymore Award winn…
I'm not sure where to assign blame for InterAct Theatre's production of Lidless, as so many factors conspire against it.
David Mamet's provocative courtroom drama, Race, is having a fine and fierce production at the Philadelphia Theatre Company.
Hitz founded the Monkey Boys Productions puppet shop in 2000 with fellow puppet designers and builders Marc Petrosino and Michael Latini, all of whom cut their puppet teeth on the Broadway p…
Tennessee Williams' beautiful, sorrowful play The Glass Menagerie is having a lovely, quiet revival at Independence Studio on 3 under Bill Van Horn's delicate direction.
A Skull in Connemara is the middle play in Martin McDonagh's Leenane trilogy, and Lantern Theater provides a rare opportunity to see this work by Ireland's hottest young playwright/filmmaker.
IT MAY have a New York City setting, but "In the Heights" has a definitive Philly accent.
A wintry walk on South Street was grist for the latest batch of recruits in Paula Vogel's Playwriting Boot Camp.
In the Arden Theatre's production of A Moon for the Misbegotten, Grace Gonglewski, Philly theater's most reliable female workhorse, plays Josie Hogan, Eugene O'Neill's workhorse of a woman.
Mount Airy native RoseMary Christina Szczesniak has landed on Broadway in what the New York Times called "one of the most coveted ingenue roles of the season."
The Understudy, a hit last season Off-Broadway, where I missed seeing it, is funny enough. But director David Kennedy's Wilma Theater production, which opened Wednesday, boosts it with a per…
Actors Center director Rodney Robb has helped train lots of aspiring performers in Philly. Manager Edie Robb, his wife of 40 years, has helped a few become stars.
