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A wonderful cast of four young very skilled actors is led by Alan Rickman in Theresa Rebeck's new dark comedy about writers, according to Toby Zinman.
Who among us cannot embrace the electrifying Billy Elliot the Musical? Maybe someone who believes success is infrequent and mostly relegated to Rocky movies, or who doesn't value the part a …
The Bearded Ladies are five women and two men. They sing - very well - and they wear bizarre costumes. Their new show, Wide Awake: A Civil War Cabaret, at the Wilma Theater this weekend and …
A great national tour cast in one of the great musicals of the new century. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews from the Academy of Music.
Medley is the name of the complicated, charming and entertaining gamethe Bearded Ladies are playing in their tuneful cabaret, according to Toby Zinman
There's something about the Walnut Street Theatre's production of The King and I that feels as comfortable and inviting as, well, the 2010 holiday show, Irving Berlin's White Christmas. Mayb…
A yacht captain said on national TV Friday that he lied to investigators about Natalie Wood's mysterious death 30 years ago and blames the actress' husband at the time, Robert Wagner, for he…
Watching Noël Coward's Private Lives is like reading that comic strip about the bickering husband and wife, The Lockhorns - but reading 500 panels.
Watching Noël Coward's Private Lives is like reading that comic strip about the bickering husband and wife, The Lockhorns - but reading 500 panels.
BalletX opened its fifth season at the Wilma Theater with a triple bill sparkling with surprising and lovely performances by company newcomers and more-senior members, says Merilyn Jackson, …
A fine cast, glittering costumes, rich sets, and superior direction and choreography make the Walnut's holiday show this year a Siamese treat, says Wendy Rosenfield.
In Theatre Exile's fine production Director Deborah Block has found exactly the right funny and tender and troubling tone. Toby Zinman found the two actors, Keith Conallen and Charlotte Fo…
Equipped with coffee, running shoes, a bright scarf, and endless enthusiasm for traipsing up and down flights of steps with little children in tow, Brielle Hart is organizing her tiny minion…
James Taylor is out to prove he can do more than write a catchy tune.
Cirque du Soleil, the international circus troupe noted for eerie live music and spectacular feats of human strength and daring, is making a brief stop at Temple University's Liacouras Cente…
Quidam is one of many Cirque shows, and although Toby Zinman found it diminished from their circus shows of five or ten years ago, there are still some reasons to gasp or murmur "amazing!"
Written over five years, between 1941 and 1945, while Beckett--as a result of his involvement in the French Resistance--hid from the Gestapo in Rousillon, Watt was rejected by publishers unt…
After being dark for almost a year, the lights flickered briefly in the Bucks County Playhouse last week as a Broadway producer outlined his vision for restoring the historic theater.
For a fan of absurdist playwright Samuel Beckett, is there anything as comforting as seeing two large garbage cans onstage when the curtain comes up on Endgame? A pair of his great oddballs,…
Asuka's production of 'Act a Lady'is a strong one, but Toby Zinman found the play unfunny and trite.
Samuel Beckett's "Endgame," is rich is a precise delivery by Gate Theatre of Dublin. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews from Annenberg Center in University City.
Playwright Jordan Harrison takes us back a century when actors discovered their inner woman, in Azuka Theatre's "Act a Lady."
Fiery, intense and so sexy you could sweat, the production of David Ives' new Venus in Fur, a sensation when it ran Off-Broadway last year, opened in a remounted production Tuesday on Broadw…
Director Julie Taymor filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the producers of "Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark," alleging they violated her creative rights and haven't compensated her for the work sh…
