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Melissa Lynch, 27, a prolific stage actress who impressed Philadelphia critics in more than 17 productions, died Thursday, Dec. 30, of injuries from a car wreck.
It was a nice surprise to find that Sunday afternoon's Great American Songbook concert at the Kimmel, with Marvin Hamlisch and Michael Feinstein, was on despite the snowstorm.
The Booth family's historian, Joanne Hulme of Kensington, says she wants the body of the assassin's brother, Edwin, exhumed.
The New Hope landmark, a symbol of the county's artistic and literary heritage where luminaries such as Grace Kelly and Neil Simon cut their teeth, has been rescued by a consortium of Broadw…
I've met some boring, self-pitying, self-important, garrulous drunks in my day, but John, the central character in Conor McPherson's Dublin Carol, presented by Amaryllis Theatre Company, tak…
This is the first time Caesar - master of ceremonies at Walnut Street Theatre Studio 3's production of Caesar's Palace O' Fun - has performed in Philadelphia. But for roughly a decade, audie…
Hiroshi Iwasaki, 59, of Mount Airy, a lecturer in theater design at Bryn Mawr College who created sets and costumes for numerous area productions, died of cancer Tuesday, Nov. 23, at Keyston…
It's Sykes' musical theater debut, and she does well as a gravel-voiced hoofer. Her Hannigan is neither the overdone lush nor the menacing life force sometimes seen in the role; she's more...
News is a funny thing. Ask executives at Comedy Central about The Daily Show With Jon Stewart or The Colbert Report.
When an older man and a younger man - each insufferable in his own way - first appear on the Viennese university music-school set of Old Wicked Songs, you say, oh I get it - it's a mentor vs…
Sound requirements say much about the essence of the story being told onstage.
For my money, White Christmas is soft and fluffy as its namesake, and surely warmer and more comfortable, though no less satisfying, than plopping down on that marble and letting the pretty …
If you can spell C-H-A-R-M-I-N-G - and if charm is sufficient - the Philadelphia Theatre Company version of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which opened the company's 35th season…
Woooeeee. Theatre Exile's sensational production of Sheila Callaghan's wild ride of a play, That Pretty Pretty; or, The Rape Play, is not to be missed.
All the world's a stage, Shakespeare writes in As You Like It, and while that may be so, not all stages within that world are the same. Take the one at Act II Playhouse, the professional the…
Law & Order Lite: The Belly, a premiere by G. Lloyd Morris, provides every cliche, every stereotype, every predictable plot turn in this TV-wannabe drama. The only things surprising are the …
The well-styled declamations of Sam Tsoutsouvas' Socrates must compete with an obtrusive soundtrack.
Amy Smith, as Jane Fonda, lends the controversial work her humor.
Things are not always better the second time around. That's what members of the New York-based Tectonic Theater Project found when, after 10 years, they returned as a reporting team to Laram…
