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Too fast, too loud, and too sexy by half, most film adaptations of Shakespeare seem so intent on proving the Bard is user-friendly to a Hollywood audience that the meat and the matter are lo…
How can something so easygoing excite such polarized reactions?
Rossini's La Donna del Lago, the Metropolitan Opera's Saturday simulcast in six area theaters, has stars (Joyce DiDonato and …
Field Hockey Hot, produced by 11th Hour Theatre Company, written by Michael Ogborn, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield.
A Hollywood actress met a local playwright during a midnight encounter in a North Philly club.
In this age of revisionist, modernized Disney fairytales, where we've learned that some of our favorite characters really aren't what they seemed, the striking thing about the studio's sumpt…
Coming to a choice parcel on Chestnut Street just west of Broad: neither a chic new condominium nor another drugstore. The Prince Music Theater isn't going anywhere.
When a sensational dancer first steps onstage, it's as exciting for me as for an astronomer discovering a nova. Zachary Hench gave such a moment when he flashed his star quality stepping out…
If there is one celebrity you won't find complaining about their fame, that celebrity is probably Kevin Bacon. But, then, spending an entire day disguised as a regular, everyday civilian wil…
It's a question Kenneth Branagh has been asked a lot lately: Was he wary, when first approached about rebooting - re-glass slippering - the 1950 animated classic Cinderella? The Disney featu…
Neill Blomkamp’s robot actioner is a loud mess
David Gray, who has been serving as interim executive director of the Pennsylvania Ballet since last summer, has had his interim status removed and will manage the company going forward, bal…
Danza returns to Northeast
Tony Danza is coming back to Northeast High School. He taught there during the 2009-2010 school year, basis for the A&E show Teach: Tony Danza. Every year since,…
New This Week Field Hockey Hot (11th Hour Theater Company) Michael Ogborn's new satire about a high school girls' field hockey team whose star goalie is injured two weeks before the champion…
NEW YORK (AP) - The upcoming Broadway musical "Finding Neverland" has found a new producer to join its ranks - Bryan Cranston.
It may have flamed out in New York, but the stage version of‘Rocky’ should be a knockout here in his hometown.
The Illusionists: Witness the Impossible, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield
Othello
Presented by Curio Theatre Company through March 14 at Calvary Center for Culture and Community, 4740 Baltimore Ave.
I will never, ever stop being amazed by the endless directorial interpretations of Othello. I've lost count of how many I've seen, but Curio Theatre Company's new production, directed by Dan…
Small space constrains the strong singing in this production of Sondheim's musical.
Othello, produced by Curio Theatre Company, directed by Dan Hodge, featuring Brian McCann, Steven A. Wright and Isa St. Clair, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield.
In 1882, a young Oscar Wilde took a one-day break from his lecture tour of North America to visit the Camden home of Walt Whitman. Thematically, Michael Whistler's Mickle Street, now at the …
Once again, BalletX has delivered on its promise to present challenging new work performed by top-notch dancers. The troupe's winter series, which premiered Wednesday, consists of four piece…
The Metropolitan Opera has commissioned Nico Muhly to compose Marnie for its 2019-20 season, based on Winston Graham's 1961 novel, which was adapted into an Alfred Hitchcock movie in 1964.
