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What is it about The Three Musketeers that still captures our imagination? Quintessence Theatre Group's new adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' sprawling adventure novel makes some excellent argu…
The Three Musketeers, written by Alexandre Dumas, with a new adaptation by Quintessence Theatre Group, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield
New This Week Hello Dolly! (Media Theatre) Andrea McArdle has grown from the moppet Annie to the mature meddler Dolly Levi, in this hugely popular '60s musical. Previews Wednesday, Thursday,…
Rubberbandance Group's Empirical Quotient is a blend of ballet and hip-hop, but it's a quieter piece than one might expect.
In anticipation of tomorrow's release of the TIME 100 list, the magazine revealed a few celebrities who will be named one of the most influential people in the world. Among them are Philadel…
Montgomery Theater is a cozy suburban house, and Marry Me a Little, a sweet, sung-through-two-hander featuring Sondheim castoffs (and a few songs that would later be included in his long-def…
Marry Me a Little, featuring the music of Stephen Sondheim, produced by Montgomery Theater, with Kim Carson and Peter Carrier, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield
During a run-through at FringeArts several weeks ago, it was clear she used that sorrow to make a moving paean with simple four-beat phrases that don't so much externalize the melancholy yet…
AS A MUSICAL-THEATER veteran, one would expect Andrea McArdle's favorite singer to come from that realm. But her personal hero is Billy Joel - which isn't all that unusual for a Philly kid, …
'Two hours is a long time for a dance," Robert Ashley intoned laconically, early in his opera Dust. But when choreographer Megan Bridge first heard the original 1999 recording, she didn…
The little girl who captivated the musical theater world as the original star of “Annie” is firmly ensconced in middle age and says her best work is yet to come.
Penelope, written by Enda Walsh, produced by Inis Nua Theatre Company, directed by Tom Reing, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield
Local arts watchers had to wonder why InterAct Theatre's hands-on boss, producing artistic director Seth Rozin, wasn't directing, or including any of his own plays, in much of his company's …
Scofield and her company Zoe | Juniper presented an evening length dance that ranged from tender and mysterious to fearless and mean, but always retained an eerie dreaminess of self and othe…
The play begins with a disembodied head, tastefully parked in the middle of a table, amiably conversing with some sort of technician - in what could be a Samuel Beckett play or the sci-fi fi…
NEW YORK - Keeping a grand opera under wraps is like hiding a brontosaurus. For starters, why would you want to?
Blanka Zizka has directed a much-anticipated Hamlet at the Wilma Theater, and central to the advance buzz is having Zainab Jah, a petite black African woman, in the title role. So was the id…
After 18 years performing at the tiny but storied Adrienne Theater on Sansom Street, InterAct Theatre Company will be picking up its props and sets and leading a group of four other theatric…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - As AMC's hit period advertising drama "Mad Men" enters the second part of its final season beginning April 5, actress Elisabeth Moss reflects on her role as Peggy Olson,…
That it should come to this!
But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two:
So excellent a king; that was, to this,
NEW YORK (AP) - Gene Saks, a prolific actor-director who teamed with playwright and fellow New Yorker Neil Simon on hit Broadway and movie productions of such Simon comedies as "The Odd Coup…
