It seems counter-intuitive that a play about a missing fourteen-year-old boy could be in any way funny or uplifting, but The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, written and performed b…
Theatre Exile closes its 2016-17 season with Tracey Scott Wilson's searing drama Buzzer, which examines issues of race, class, and gender through the lens of urban gentrification. Directed b…
Imaginative storytelling and captivating performances at People's Light make Dwayne Hartford's The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, adapted for the stage from the novel by Kate DiCamillo…
Celebrating the 90th anniversary of its historic building, Ritz Theatre Company presents Dream: A Phonograph Musical, an original prequel to the genre of the 'jukebox musical' inspired by th…
A grand presentation of Agatha Christie's popular whodunit of 1953, Witness for the Prosecution, closes out Bristol Riverside Theatre's 30th anniversary season with a bang. Directed by Susan…
In My Funny Bone, the latest offering from Brian Sanders' JUNK, the boundary-breaking choreographer/dancer traces the evolution of his, let's say, "eccentric" sense of humor from childhood t…
Haunting and primal, Azuka Theatre's rolling world premiere of The Arsonists, the final installment in Philadelphia playwright Jacqueline Goldfinger's "Southern Gothic Trilogy" (following th…
In the fall of 2010, the Philadelphia Artists' Collective " the city's critically-acclaimed purveyor of rarely-performed classics – burst onto the scene at the historic Broad Street Mi…
The latest offering in Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion's popular Victorian Theatre presentations is a new interpretation of Anne of Green Gables, playing for four performances this weekend in the 1…
If you're in the mood for some pure light-hearted entertainment, Marry Harry, now making its Off-Broadway debut in a limited engagement with The York Theatre Company, is a delightful new mus…
"Alternative facts" and "fake news" are nothing new with the current presidency; they led to the Bush administration's justification for the war in Iraq and its still-ongoing dire consequenc…
Published in 1915, Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology – a collection of free-verse poems in which the deceased residents of a fictional rural town in Illinois recount episodes fr…
Did you ever wonder what happens when "a duck walks into a bar"? Anthony Caporale (performer, playwright, and Director of Beverage Studies at New York's Institute of Culinary Education) will…
What's so funny about suicide, cremation, drug addiction, PTSD, and familial dysfunction? Playwright Lauren Ferebee finds the dark comedy in all of that, along with the innate tragedy and ir…
Socially relevant and thought-provoking, profoundly heartrending and often funny, playwright Camilo Almonacid's The Assignment " inspired by a true story and developed by Houses on the Moon …
When John Cameron Mitchell (book) and Stephen Trask (music and lyrics) were developing their gender-bending rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch for its Off-Broadway premiere in 1998, t…
Celebrating its 20th anniversary season, 1812 Productions – Philadelphia's all-comedy theater company – is now in rehearsals for its springtime offering, the local premiere of Fr…
Philadelphia-based artists Dan Martin (composer) and Michael Biello (lyricist) are about to make their Off-Broadway debut this month with Marry Harry at The York Theatre Company. The longtim…
A world-premiere musical adaptation of George MacDonald's 19th-century Scottish fairytale The Light Princess, with book and lyrics by Tony Lawton and music by Alex Bechtel, is the latest off…
Acrobatic, athletic, comic, and erotic, Bradley's Bucks have it all and delivered it all upstairs at Franky Bradley's in their latest high-energy offering. Founded, led, and directed by Tedd…
For a personal two-hander about a gravely ill teenager's transcendental reflection on life and death through the lens of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, you need to have empathetic actors wh…
Currently performing the titular role in EgoPo Classic Theater's Anna " an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's Russian epic Anna Karenina, written and directed by Brenna Geffers " Colleen Corcoran h…
Sometimes it's easier to let a puppet speak for you, when you know the truth about how you feel will not be well received by your small southern Christian community. That's exactly what happ…
Some shows never get old or lose their impact. The national tour of Roundabout Theatre Company's Tony Award-winning revival of Cabaret, making its Philadelphia premiere for a limited run thi…
Developed out of a conversation playwright and lead actor Lowell Byers had with his cousin Lou Fowler – a Sergeant in the US Army Air Corps during World War II – upon their fi…