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When June O'Neill took over as executive director of the Philadelphia Cultural Fund 12 years ago, she barely had time to find her desk before Mayor John F. Street announced he was slashing t…
An ambivalent journey that ends in tender acceptance.
It's hard to believe Koresh Dance Company has been performing on Philly boards for almost 25 years. Harder still to think Melissa Rector still shines in every performance since 1991. And har…
Remember Baby's thrilling run and Johnny's spectacular lift at the end of the 1987 movie Dirty Dancing? Well, onstage, in this national touring production at the Academy of Music, there's no…
Lively romp through Shakespeare's comedy almost bores with its innocent fun.
The concept, one imagines, inspired not a few raised eyebrows: Shakespeare plus tango. Intriguing, no? Or merely perplexing?
Take your pick: There's a wide selection of Shakespearean greats onstage all around the city within the coming weeks.
The annual "Shut Up & Dance" show gives the dancers of Pennsylvania Ballet a chance to stretch their wings, to do something new, to play. At this year's performance, Saturday at th…
A special portable floor designed for dance performance and offered to area dance companies at minimal cost by the soon-to-shutter Dance USA/Philadelphia service organization has been taken …
Broadway hit "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" will be made into a feature film produced by Tom Hanks' production company and released by Sony Pictures Entertainment.
New This Week Dirty Dancing (Academy of Music) In this stage version of the monster film hit, it's 1963 and Baby and Johnny are heating things up at a Catskills resort. Opens Tuesday.
UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) - Barry Manilow is giving a piano to a New York school district and he's urging others to donate musical instruments for schoolchildren to play.
It's a fine time for Bristol Riverside Theatre's production of Ragtime, the Lynn Ahrens/Stephen Flaherty/Terrence McNally musical adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's sprawling 1975 novel (which wa…
The Book of Mormon will be back in Philadelphia's Forrest Theatre late this year for a month-long reprise of its successful 47-day 2014 engagement, part of Broadway Philadelphia's 2015-16 se…
Ragtime, produced by Bristol Riverside Theater, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield
According to lyricist Franke Previte, ”(I’ve Had) The Time Of My Life” is just one reason why “Dirty Dancing” is a pop-culture “phenomenon.”
It takes years for Tony Award-winning shows to make it from Broadway to Philadelphia. But Jessica Lang earned a Bessie Award - the dance equivalent of a Tony - in October, and her work is op…
Annie, national tour, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield.
NEW YORK (AP) - Here's some good news: The daffy ethos of "30 Rock" lives again in "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt." And why shouldn't it, since this new Netflix comedy (with its 13 episodes now …
SOMERS POINT, N.J. - Instead of being lost forever to housing development along the waterfront of this gateway town to Ocean City, a little theater tucked along Bay Avenue will be sticking a…
Demolition began Saturday on the historic Boyd Theater, with wrecking crews tearing down the part of the L-shaped building that lines Sansom Street.
