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A Bucks County couple have saved the historic Bucks County Playhouse by paying cash to acquire the building, which has been sitting empty, in the hands of a bank, since late 2010.
Look, I Made a Hat is the second volume of Stephen Sondheim's show-by-show, song-by-song compendium of his life in the American musical theater.
Eric Kimmel's children's book Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins is a story that, aside from being engaging, is also gently subversive and proudly ethnic.
THE HORRORS of mechanized war, and a heart-warming story about the transformative power of a benevolent creature and boy's best friend.
WHERE would "Jersey Boys" be without the "Jersey Girls"?
The success of the world-beating Broadway musical about 1960s chart-toppers the Four Seasons may ultimately depen…
The emperor walked beneath the beautiful canopy in the procession, and all the people in the street said, "Goodness, the emperor's new clothes are incomparable! What a beautiful jacket!…
As The Inquirer's film critic from 1975 to 2001 and theater critic from 2001 until he retired at the end of 2005, Mr. Ryan, who studied literature at New College, Oxford, could dispose of a …
A new theater is coming to downtown Norristown next fall. The professional stage company Theatre Horizon plans to open a 120-seat house of its own, a $900,000 project being funded by private…
Getting down -- and going for the laughs -- in Lantern Theater's production of Noël Coward's classic in Center City. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews.
NEW YORK - I have seen the dark-horse hit of the Broadway season so far, and it's an out-an-out hoot called Lysistrata Jones with wild precision dancing, songs that never miss and a plot as …
It wasn't just the bright new national-tour cast of Jersey Boys up on the Forrest Theatre stage, bowing to wild enthusiasm at the curtain call for Friday's opening in its very first stop.
A new national tour cast opens of "Jersey Boys" opens in Philadelphia for a five-week run. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews from the Forrest Theatre in Center City.
NEW YORK - The musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever has undergone a sex-change operation. When it opened on Broadway in 1965, it was about a woman named Daisy with a distinct hidden 18…
Wendy Rosenfield reviews Un Viaje: (Walking Fish), a bilingual kids' holiday show with attention deficit disorderliness of Sabado Gigante, but less coherent.
An Assault on the "war on terror," Christopher Durang's leaden farce is, Toby Zinman found, a perfect demonstration of how short the shelf life of political humor is.
An assault on the "war on terror," Toby Zinman found this Christopher Durang farce the perfect demonstration of how short the shelf life of political humor is
NEW YORK - Stick Fly, a new and robust play when Philadelphia-area audiences saw it in 2007 at Princeton's McCarter Theatre, is now a new Broadway play, even stronger, smoother, and more aff…
Some audience members said they were in shock and awe after Compagnie Marie Chouinard's opening-night performance Thursday of Rite of Spring at the Annenberg Center, as the Montreal company …
There are mothers and there are Mothers, and then there's Momma Rose. She is the world's most famous stage mother, the driving force behind her children and the reason the great American mus…
Toby Zinman found Curio Theatre's production of "Accidental Death of an Anarchist," Dario Fo's dated political comedy about police brutality, desperately unfunny as well as irrelevant to co…
Momma Rose can be downright maniacal in Tovah Feldshuh's interpretation of the world's most famous stage mother, in the swell production of "Gypsy" at Bristol Riverside Theatre. Inquirer the…
Stick Fly, a new and robust play when Philadelphia-area audiences saw it four years ago at Princeton's McCarter Theatre, is now a new Broadway play, even stronger, smoother and more affectin…
Handsome, spry, and arriving onstage at the Kimmel Center in a nifty scooter on Tuesday, Itzhak Perlman played a recital that was a complicated case of musical decline.
Since its publication in 1952, E.B. White's Charlotte's Web may have been more responsible for furthering the cause of animal rights, or at least vegetarianism, than the Animal Liberation Fr…
