Review: 'Memphis' at Ritz Theatre Company
"How could people be so bad that make me feel so good?" That is the rhetorical question posed by white DJ Huey Calhoun, a 9th-grade dropout with an eccentric style, a profound passion for bl…
"How could people be so bad that make me feel so good?" That is the rhetorical question posed by white DJ Huey Calhoun, a 9th-grade dropout with an eccentric style, a profound passion for bl…
It's back to the '80s at Hammonton's Eagle Theatre, for an absolutely hilarious revisiting of the decade of big hair, tacky fashions, and bad-ass music–or just bad, if you're not of th…
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker is unsurpassed in her modern-day observations on the human condition and how we respond to it: the afflictions that impact us; the troubled rela…
Whacked-out psycho-killer or falsely-accused innocent? We'll never know the truth about Lizzie Borden, but 11th Hour Theatre Company's production of the rock musical Lizzie, by Steven Chesli…
For Allens Lane Theater's production of And Then There Were None, director Josh Hitchens not only presents the mystery, but also heightens the mood and highlights the message inherent in Aga…
Montreal's Cirque Éloize explodes on stage at the Merriam Theater with a two-day run of its touring production of Saloon, presented collaboratively by the Kimmel Center and the Shubert O…
The current remount of George & Co.'s critically-acclaimed Holden, first developed in New Ohio Theatre's 2015 Ice Factory Festival, is as relevant and unnerving now as it was then, in a …
Who would have thought that a fact-filled illustrated lecture on neuroscience could form the basis of a popular and critically-acclaimed Fringe show? Or that rap music could hold appeal for …
1812 Productions' Producing Artistic Director and Co-Founder Jennifer Childs teamed up again with musician Monica Stephenson, a long-time friend and former colleague at the company, for this…
Wilmington's City Theater Company ushers in its 23rd season with lots of glitter for the holidays. But it's not the usual tinsel on the tree, it's the fabulous drag fest that is La Cage a…
Originally commissioned by NBC as the first opera for television, composer and librettist Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors has become an American Christmas tradition since i…
Conceived and directed by Elizabeth Huston, the current two-night presentation of 10 Synchronisms by Argentine-American composer Mario Davidovsky–created between 1963 and 2006, and pro…
A musician, singer, and songwriter who toured for eight years with the titular folk star and lived near him in Aspen, Colorado, before his tragic death in a plane crash at the age of 53, Dan…
A multimedia synthesis of music, film, and drama, Jib: or, The Child Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was traces the rise and fall of a fictional rock star through arcane fragmented scen…
A smash hit for Arden Theatre Company in 2004 and 2009, A Year with Frog and Toad is back for its third run and it's guaranteed to be as popular as it was the first two times around! Philade…
Director Dan Hodge strikes a fine balance between comedy and drama in the Philadelphia Artists' Collective's presentation of All's Well That Ends Well. In keeping with the sardonic tone of S…
"I tell you, War is Hell." So declared Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman in his 1879 address to the graduating class of the Michigan Military Academy. In Shades, a New York premiere…
The latest world-premiere offering at People's Light, in its annual homage to the British holiday tradition of family-friendly musical-comedy entertainment, is a side-splitting reimagining o…
If you "love a Gershwin tune" (and who doesn't?), An American in Paris, presented by Broadway Philadelphia for a limited run this Thanksgiving week at the Academy of Music, is the show for y…
Hot off a Barrymore win for Best Ensemble in a Play for Inis Nua Theatre Company's The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning and having received widespread acclaim for its current Barrymore-reco…
A deserving winner of the FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award for a play, The Radicalization of Rolfe, produced by Glenn Krutoff, is a uniquely witty original take-off on The Sound of Music. …
An immersive site-specific mash-up of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe and the game of "Clue," Edward G. Pettit's Mystery in the House of Usher: A Poe Tale, staged at the historic Ebenezer Max…
To what lengths would you be willing to go to get what you want? That's the moralizing question posed by English playwright Philip Ridley, in Inis Nua Theatre Company's Philadelphia premiere…
It's drag to the rescue in playwright Matthew Lopez's camp comedy The Legend of Georgia McBride, now in production at Arden Theatre Company. Filled with caustic humor, glitz, and music, and …
Fresh out of the recording studio, Red 40 & the Last Groovement is getting ready for the release of their debut album, She's Keen to Feed, with a launch party concert at FringeArts on Sa…