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The ads employ a provocative tag line: "Even though it's a play, it doesn't suck." This, alas, is a false claim on both counts.
YEARS ago, Claude Solnik, a journalist and playwright, heard Jeff Bennett, a drama teacher, talk about his textbook "Secondary Stages: Revitalizing High School Theater" (Heinemann, 2001), an…
Playwright A.R. Gurney uses the Sept. 11 attacks to climb on his soapbox about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in "O Jerusalem," a heavy-handed political drama with a generous amount of hum…
WILLARD G. ROUSE III, 1942-2003 by Peter Dobrin
Willard Goldsmith Rouse III, 60, the overachieving, cantankerous real estate developer who shattered the city's unofficial height limit and coaxed Philadelphia's artscape to a previously unimaginable level of sophistication, died of lung cancer late Tuesday at his home in Phoenixville.
He was a great patron of the arts, and a key mover behind the new Kimmel Center.
Funny thing about director Peter Sellars' lengthy version of Othello, now on view at New York University's Skirball Center. His imagination outraces the ability of his actors, including the usually eminently watchable Philip Seymour Hoffman, a performer of uncommon intelligence. That means the play, clocking in at a posterior-numbing four hours, is quite an ordeal, despite occasional bursts of inventiveness. It's high-concept time with ideas rather than Shakespeare's language or character ruling the day. But clever can take you only so far.
To show how hard it can be to produce an Off Broadway show, one of the producers of "Bug" took the rare step of opening his books.
Frankie Valli doesn't call "Jersey Boys" a musical; he consistently refers to the Broadway show as a play. So does Rick Elice, co-author of the hit that won the 2006 Tony Award for best, um,…
Placido Domingo, Kristin Chenoweth and Trevor Scheunemann clown it up in Marvin Hamlisch and Sheldon Harnick's mini-opera "The Audition."
Alone on stage, she captures the sprawling multi-generation narrative of the ‘Confederate Widow.’
YOU can lecture your kids until you're blue in the face, but if you really want to scare them straight, take them to "Cranked."
'Stop thinking I grew up in a chamber of horrors,' says Liza Minnelli. She's been a punchline almost as long as she's been a legend, but the ghosts that hover near her seem to be at bay righ…
