"I'm over the moon to be back in town" says Tyler Fauntleroy who's famous for working with Black playwrights & Black conscious theater experiences: David Harris' 'Tambo & Bones' & August Wil…
Theatre SKAM's 'Fashion Machine.' at FringeArts, finds its deconstructionist child charges ripping apart your outfit " literally and figuratively " and putting it back together again, fabulo…
When Paige Price took the helm of a floundering Philadelphia Theatre Company, she steered off course and toward safer financial waters. But will that keep the company afloat? A.D. Amorosi co…
Bright bold jazz singer-musician-composer Nellie McKay tackles issues of gender identity and the secret life of performer Billy Tipton. AD Amorosi reviews.
The four purposely pretentious movement artists of Philly's Almanac Dance Circus Theatre join forces with Good Good Comedy. AD Amorosi reviews.
Ben Dibble, one of Philadelphia's best-known actor/singers, takes center stage at the Arden Cabaret Series and puts his family in the spotlight. AD Amorosi reviews.
Sans her longtime collaborator, Blanka Zizka takes on a new partner: Shakespeare.
It was a nice surprise to find that Sunday afternoon's Great American Songbook concert at the Kimmel, with Marvin Hamlisch and Michael Feinstein, was on despite the snowstorm.
News is a funny thing. Ask executives at Comedy Central about The Daily Show With Jon Stewart or The Colbert Report.
With a hefty grant from Temple, a fledgling theater company gets its wings.
For a couple weeks now, I've been Ice-packing about what Philly's top-notch theater lasses will be up to in the immediate future. Deborah Block " one of the Fringe Fest's original fire-start…
Funny fellas do a wordless "Odd Couple"/Buster Keaton mashup for 1812.
Jeff Coon and Ben Dibble have acted in so many Philadelphia productions - sometimes together, sometimes apart - that a comedy by rival actors demanded their death.
In precocious playwright J.C. Lee's Pookie Goes Grenading, a 14-year-old girl grabs weapons-grade explosives and a few devious friends and heads off into the red night, on a journey to a pla…
During a hectic St. Patrick's Day weekend, Jess Conda went to her usual jobs - waiting tables at Fergie's Pub downtown, heading north for her gig at Northern Liberties' after-hours Ruba Clu…
Stroll past many a Philadelphia bus stop and you'll see theater posters bearing the phrase "Directed by Matt Pfeiffer."
Experimental theater director Whit MacLaughlin moves in mysterious ways.
Deborah Block's South Philly neighbors can frequently spot her running between her stage gig as co-artistic director of Theatre Exile and her home gig with tech director/husband Doug Smullen…
Irish eyes are smiling on a West Philly-by-way-of-Galway production.
If you're the type who has followed Philadelphia thespians around the local theater map, you've noticed one actor very nearly stuck - happily - in one location for 11 years: Fran Prisco.