This is not your father's Tennessee. EgoPo Classic Theater's brilliant, hilarious second show in its season of "American Giants" is Tennessee Williams' unknown 1941 Stairs to the R…
Opera Philadelphia's 2015-16 season is converging from more distant points than usual - or, possibly, ever. La Traviata (October) is imported from Bucharest. And though Andy: A Popera (Septe…
This is not your father's Tennessee. EgoPo Classic Theater's brilliant and hilarious second show in their season of "American Giants" is Tennessee Williams' early, unknown play, St…
Inspired by the success of “Motown the Musical,” the legends behind Philadelphia International Records are planning their own.
We last saw Andre's mother in Terrence McNally's brief and sentimental 1994 one-act called Andre's Mother. She was holding a balloon at her son's memorial after his death from AIDS. Now, 20 …
If there's one thing the people at Montgomery Theater love, it's a cluttered urban apartment filled with two or three of the city's ragged loveless. Jim Geoghan's Light Sensitive fills this …
Since the 1969 premiere of Steven Berkoff's adaptation of The Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa - you know, he woke from troubled dreams, found himself transformed into an insect in his bed - has …
Light Sensitive, written by Jim Geoghan, produced by Montgomery Theater, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield.
Scott Greer is a big guy, a hearty 6-foot, 285-pound Philadelphia thespian who usually takes on what Orson Welles called "king roles" - Peachum in The Threepenny Opera, Valere in L…
Terrence McNally plays are like city buses: They sweep by, may not take you where you think you're going, and, when absent for a while, suddenly arrive in droves and from all directions.
The Metamorphosis, produced by Quintessence Theatre Group, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield.
Last March, comedian Nick Kroll introduced us to "Pawnsylvania" on the heels of news that the Philly accent is slowly taking its leave of our be-hogied mouths. Thankfully, though, Kroll kept…
Scott Greer transforms into a morbidly obese man for "The Whale."
SO, A COUPLE of Academy Award nominees are teaming up to do Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard." Big deal, right? You can't swing a rolled-up Playbill in New York's theater district without…
The new opera Oscar, about the demise of Oscar Wilde - poet, playwright, aesthete, wit - arrives Friday at the Academy of Music courtesy of Opera Philadelphia, and at an uncertain juncture: …
The Miracle Worker, produced by Media Theatre, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield
BEACH HAVEN, N.J. - Those with front-row seats for at least part of the ongoing drama of keeping the historic Surflight Theatre afloat may think they've seen this play before, too.
Mark Twain Unplugged, produced by Act II Playhouse, written by and featuring Tom Teti, directed by Tony Braithwaite, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield.
LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - Emma Watson will star Disney's live-action version of "Beauty and the Beast" as the lead character Belle.