Renowned as the greatest American Shakespearean actor of his day, Edwin Booth (1833-93), the brother of Abraham Lincoln's killer John Wilkes Booth, could have easily become the collateral da…
Boldly erotic, seductively exuberant, and profoundly intimate, Carried Away, this year's world-premiere Fringe piece by Brian Sanders' JUNK, brings all the physicality, psychology, and emoti…
What do you get when you mix The Picture of Dorian Gray with Sunset Boulevard and Valley of the Dolls? A high-camp melodramatic parody on the consequences of aging in a profession where yout…
At a 10 AM press conference this morning, the nominations for the Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre for the 2015-16 season were announced by Theatre Philadelphia. A total of 25 comp…
Here is Part 3 of the Philadelphia staff of DCMetroTheaterArts' favorite performances in Spring and Summer of 2016. To all our honorees " TAKE A BOW! _____ Ensemble (Adrienne Hertler, Emily …
At a press conference held on the eastern terrace of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the members of the Philadelphia School of Circus Arts announced the foundation of its new professi…
Here is Part 2 of the Philadelphia staff of DCMetroTheaterArts' favorite performances in Spring and Summer of 2016. To all our honorees " TAKE A BOW! _____  Amanda Schoonover as Dorine…
Here are the 2016 Barrymore Award Nominations: Winners will be announced at the Merriam Theater on Monday, October 24th at 7 p.m. Congratulations to all the nominees! F. Otto Haas Award for …
Here is Part 1 of the Philadelphia staff of DCMetroTheaterArts’ favorite performances in Spring and Summer of 2016. To all our honorees – TAKE A BOW! _____ J Hernandez as Rica…
Edmond Rostand's classic French novel of 1897, Cyrano de Bergerac, is re-envisioned through a post-modern gay lens in Grind Arts Company's Cyrano: a love letter to a friendship. The triangul…
Relationships are hard. And that goes double if you're pushing 30, but still haven't made the psychological and emotional transition from youth to adulthood. In The New Collective's world pr…
Sometimes even the most inspired geniuses need to do some rethinking, reworking, and rewrites of their greatest creations to forge an unforgettable masterpiece. Such is the case with God, Mi…
On June 25, 1906, famed architect Stanford White, of the firm McKim, Mead & White (among whose most noted works is NYC's Washington Square Arch), was shot and killed by crazed multi-mill…
15,000 documents ÷ 3 years of intensive research + 1 actor x 9 characters = the formula for success with Einstein! Written and performed by Jack Fry, the one-man tour-de-force brings the …
From the time she was a kid, Ronna J Levy knew that she wanted to be an actress. How she ended up being a teacher is the theme of her original one-woman show of 2012, This Gonna Be on the Te…
A post-modern take-off on the Book of Revelation, Tribulation: The Musical, with book and lyrics by Molly Miller and music by Brad Kemp, reimagines the Apocalypse through the eyes of a recen…
After listening to John McDonagh's hilarious reminiscences about his life as a New York cabbie, you'll be convinced that few jobs are as rife with comic material. Born and raised in Queens, …
A poignant and uplifting three-hander, Joey Variations: A Play with Dance, written and directed by Jon Spano, is a seemingly simple story about the psychological and emotional complexities o…
Fulfilling a ten-year dream, the all-female Musical Company OZmate, from Takarazuka, Japan, has brought its epic tale, The Legend of Oni, to FringeNYC, and NYC couldn't be more fortun…
If you're a fan of the fright genre and nostalgic for classic Saturday morning TV shows for kids, Playlab NYC's Humorously Horrendous Haunted Hideaway will have you screaming with laughter! …
As two upper-crust English sisters of marriageable age in the Victorian era, Mia Hutchinson-Shaw and Natalia Dyer bring new meaning to sibling rivalry in the titular roles of Adaire Kamen's …
What better reason to leave Elizabethan England than to stage a production of Shakespeare's The Tempest in the New World and to found an indie theater there? That's the witty premise of play…
Traditionally, one of the defining factors of human civilization is a society that creates art. But are the hand, mind, and emotions of the artist integral parts of the creative process, or …
Philadelphia's John Schultz brings an immersive sensory experience to FringeNYC with Till Birnam Wood, an original adaptation of Macbeth. Already a hit in the 2014 and 2015 Philly Fringe Fes…
For Houston plastic surgeon Dr. Philip Yosowitz, the story he weaves in The Gold, a fictional history of the impact the Holocaust had on one extended family of German Jews, is very personal.…