Michael Hollinger's fine new Ghost-Writer starts off the Arden season with a quiet bang. This engrossing, old-fashioned play is about the drama of writing - and typing - and creativity and l…
The Philadelphia region's four dozen professional theaters will be producing world premieres and pieces never before seen here, plus classics (two local companies make their first forays int…
"Sun" stars Barrymore Award-winning actress/singer Joilet Harris as Ansonia, a woman struggling to overcome abuse, drugs and depression who finds salvation through the power of song.
This year's Live Arts Festival/Philly Fringe opens Friday with a pioneering idea that could become a model for new work, a project far outlasting the festival's two-plus weeks of cutting-edg…
Pew distributed $960,000, including $110,000 each to five regional theaters.
Attention, musical-theater lovers: Whatever you hold dear about the genre, hold it even closer before you see Act II Playhouse's Forbidden Broadway's Greatest Hits. But even then it won't ma…
I Promised Myself to Live Faster, produced by Pig Iron Theatre Company, featuring Dito Van Reigersberg, Mikeah Ernest Jennings, Jennifer Kidwell, Mary McCool, Michelle Tauber, costumes by Ma…
The Lion King tour, presented by Broadway at the Kimmel, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield
When the moment of romantic consummation finally arrives between the main characters of Stephen Sondheim's Passion, the man and woman who have been pondering, dismissing, and obsessing over …
Here's a shameful confession: I have been reviewing theater since before my children were born, and not only is the current tour of Disney's The Lion King, which roars into the Academy of Mu…
CANNES, France (AP) - Michael Fassbender doesn't know if the "Macbeth" curse carries over to movie adaptations, but he'd rather not test it.
A season of change at Pennsylvania Ballet will be topped off by one more: Zachary Hench and Julie Diana are leaving.
'Inspired by actual events" has become one of the more misleading phrases used to push entertainment. In Memphis, now in a musically sensational staging at the Walnut Theatre, the claim…
The trick to presenting Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People is to keep it from becoming the enemy of the audience.
What happens when you try to jack the prices on Josh Groban tickets? You don't get Josh Groban.