When award-winning sportswriter and radio-show host Ray Didinger was a kid, he never could have imagined that he'd end up helping his boyhood hero, wide receiver Tommy McDonald, be inducted …
As a practicing trial and class-action lawyer for 46 years, playwright Norman Shabel has seen the American legal system from the inside, and it isn't pretty. He draws on that first-hand expe…
From Peter and The Starcatcher to Finding Neverland, the ever popular tale of Peter Pan continues to inspire original interpretations for the theater. A different take on J.M. Barrie's belov…
For his next novel To the Unseen, successful author and socialite Charles Condomine must gather material on the world of the occult, of which he is highly skeptical. So on a lark, "to make n…
There are more than 175 shows in this year's Philadelphia Fringe Festival, spanning eleven different genres and covering a wide array of subjects. Two experimental Fringe regulars, Applied M…
Two sets of twins create twice the confusion and double the laughs in The Comedy of Errors, Delaware Shakespeare Festival's 2016 selection for its annual outdoor offering at Wilmingto…
They're ba-ack! If you're a fan of the macabre clan from the 1960s black-and-white TV show, inspired by Charles Addams' series of single-frame cartoon drawings for The New Yorker beginning i…
When Ginger Dayle founded New City Stage Company in the summer of 2006, she was a graduate student at Villanova University, hoping to provide herself and other young theater artists with pro…
Talent, showmanship, and charm"Rob McClure has it all, and he brings it all to Feinstein's/54 Below with Rob McClure: Smile, his premiere solo concert in New York City. The pride of New Jers…
Located just 20 miles northwest of Philadelphia, the freshly renovated Valley Forge Casino Resort offers visitors a wide range of activities, from gaming and swimming to fine dining and l…
After receiving a classical education at the University of Pennsylvania and graduating with a degree in English and a minor in Theater in 2014, Hannah Van Sciver has appeared in productions …
Directed by local theater artist Tommy Butler, #theaternow's entry in Philadelphia's 2016 SoLow Festival is New-York-based Alex Clothier's delightfully eccentric reminiscences about his Midw…
For the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival's current production of Julius Caesar, Director Patrick Mulcahy views the Bard's ancient Roman history through a post-modern lens. Set in an imagine…
Following his 2013 hit No Reservations, best-selling author, humorist, and playwright Josh Piven brings a new work to the Philadelphia stage with the world premiere of Muddled, an original s…
Spectacular circus arts meet vintage-style song-and-dance in Cirque du Soleil's premiere Broadway musical, Paramour, now playing at the Lyric Theatre. Known for its consummately graceful and…
Renowned as one of the greatest actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood, James Cagney (1899-1986) was a proverbial triple threat who could do it all. And so can Robert Creighton, the …
In the 1930s, when Thornton Wilder was unhappy with the state of contemporary theater and felt that something had gone wrong, he created a metatheatrical work that would become an American c…
Director/creator Michael Durkin takes his inspiration for The Renegade Company's latest site-specific performance, In the Community Garden of Earthly Delights, from the famous paintin…
Following its premiere at Chicago's Northlight Theatre in 2015, White Guy on the Bus, a new work by Philadelphia's prolific award-winning playwright Bruce Graham, comes to Passage Theatre in…
If you believe that the arts are an integral part of life, and that children should be introduced to them from an early age, then you are in total agreement with the mission of Enchantment T…
Unrequited longing for a capricious woman of a higher social class can only be cured by a magic potion, or so thinks the lovesick Nemorino when he overhears Adina, the object of his affectio…
Patterned Oriental carpets, richly aged dark wood paneling, a tufted leather sofa and a tapestry upholstered chair, an exotic collection of art, curiosities, and taxidermy specimens, and oth…
The first of Robert Cousins' four-part series on fictional teenage sleuth Lacey Ward makes its Philadelphia debut with the Phenomenal Animals in a short six-performance run. Self-described a…
Well, actually, there's a lot to see in Found Theater Company's latest ensemble-devised work Nothing to See Here, and there's even more to hear, to think about, and to feel. But above all el…
If you think that happy endings, moral lessons, and the power of goodness magically triumphing over the forces of evil are the stuff fairy tales are made of, The Stinky Cheese Man and Other …