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NEW YORK - In a last-ditch effort to save one of America's cultural institutions, unions representing the New York City Opera have reached tentative agreements that could pump new life into …
The pumping musical Memphis celebrates an America whose definition of freedom is always evolving. The national tour, which pulled into the Academy of Music on Tuesday and is staying through …
Toby Zinman found "In the Footprint" a disappointingly dull docudrama about the legalities of eminent domain focused on the seven-year battle over building an arena in Brooklyn.
The lively musical "Memphis" pulls into town, at the Academy of Music. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews.
The once-celebrated Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope will open later this year under management spearheaded by a Broadway producer and others, according to an announcement late Tuesday.
NEW YORK - To honor the 80th birthday of celebrated South African playwright Athol Fugard, The Road to Mecca, a play he wrote in the mid-'80s, opened Tuesday night for the first time on Broa…
"Ludwig Live!" is pretty much dead on arrival, says critic David Patrick Stearns.
NEW YORK - The immensely satisfying Porgy and Bess that opened in a Broadway revival Thursday night is not your grandma's P&B. In a controversial makeover that has ended up neither controver…
Ed Swidey's new play in a Simpatico Theatre Project production is a complete surprise -- complex physical and experimental theater for audiences from about age three to the eldest among us. …
An original evening of five kids' tales, a family show from Off-Color Theatre Company at the Gershman Y, is nicely acted but not always with the rhythm and shtick it needs. Inquirer theater …
An original evening of five kids' tales, a family show from Off-Color Theatre Company at the Gershman Y, is nicely acted but not always with the rhythm and shtick it needs. Inquirer theater …
The immensely satisfying Porgy and Bess that opened in a Broadway revival Thursday night is not your grandma's P&B. In a controversial makeover that has ended up neither controversial nor ve…
An unconventional household faces trauma from outside and inside, but muddles through with warmth and humor, says critic Wendy Rosenfield.
A deeply cynical view of marriage, a wariness of coupledom, fidelity, and trust, has long been evident in Roman Polanski's work. In fact, his very first film, Knife in the Water, finds a hus…
When David Bryan phones from a stage in Houston, the Bon Jovi keyboardist isn't calling to discuss his band's tour updates or studio news.
Jersey Boys, which will end its five-week run at the Forrest Theatre on Saturday, set records when the national tour was here last winter - and now it's setting new ones. The musical, still …
Sandra Bernhard is sultry-songed, pouty, potty-mouthed and a general stitch -- just what you expect (and hope for) -- at the Painted Bride. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews.
The musical "Jersey Boys," soon to end its five-week run at the Forrest Theatre, hits the record books.
Philadelphia-bred playwright Victor Kaufold peoples his new play "Bridesburg" with stereotypes so unnuanced, even their single dimensions are threadbare.
THE NAME "Scratch Night," a monthly salon from the good folks who bring you the Live Arts Festival, is supposed to connote performing art at its beginning stages.
Somehow, Hair just keeps growing. After sweeping every Broadway award-giving outlet's Best Musical Revival category in 2009, its national tour doesn't smell the least bit of mothballs, occup…
Somehow, Hair just keeps growing. After sweeping every Broadway award-giving outlet's Best Musical Revival category in 2009, its national tour doesn't smell the least bit like mothballs, occ…
NEW YORK - The Metropolitan Opera spent so much time and money assembling an operatic adaptation of The Tempest, you wonder why it didn't just commission a composer to write a new one. Well,…
Hugh Jackman has left Broadway with a lot of broken hearts _ and records.
