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NEW YORK - As deliberate as Audra McDonald is about picking songs for her concerts, what she says in between singing them is anything but considered.
PRINCETON - In the dark, enticing, world premiere production of Phaedra Backwards, which is evermore galvanizing as it unfolds on the main stage of Princeton's McCarter Theatre, myth seems s…
The robust InterAct Theatre Company production of Sarah Treem's "The How and the Why," at the Adrienne Theatre, tells the story of two women scientists, each on opposite ends of their career…
The world premiere of Irish playwright Marina Carr's "Phaedra Backwards" makes the myth sizzle. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews from McCarter Theatre in Princeton, N.J.
Now, Mr. Volpe, supportive, inspiring and funny, is directing the debut high school production of Spring Awakening, the Tony-winning musical that addresses child abuse, abortion, homosexuali…
The excellent, fast-moving rendition of The Merchant of Venice by Quintessence Theatre Group at the Sedgwick in Mount Airy is all the more interesting for its choices.
The excellent, fast-moving rendition of The Merchant of Venice by Quintessence Theatre Group at the Sedgwick in Mount Airy is all the more interesting for its choices.
As they say in show biz, timing is everything. But Delaware Theatre Company's timing, opening Arthur Miller's capitalist corruption drama All My Sons - amid the Occupy Wall Street protests, …
Delaware Theatre Company takes Arthur Miller's capitalist corruption drama and gives it a production both classic and utterly of the moment. Review by Wendy Rosenfield
An excellent, fluid "The Mercant of Venice" is being staged by Quintessence Theatre Group at its Mount Airy home, the Sedgwick Theatre. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews from n…
South Camden Theatre Company celebrates Tennessee Williams' 100th birthday with a knockout production of Suddenly, Last Summer. Review by Wendy Rosenfield
Pop How do you get to Carnegie Hall? The answer for Judy Garland was no different than for anyone else: She practiced. Interestingly, her dry runs for her famous Carnegie Hall concert began …
Toby Zinman found EgoPo Classic Theater's THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK an excellent production of a terrible play.
Toby Zinman found nothing funny about these three comedies, despite the production's famous comic playwrights and famous comic actors.A Broadway dud.
The three new one-acts combined into a Broadway show called Relatively Speaking come across as a comedic evolution in time-lapse. It all goes by in barely more than two hours, beginning with…
The extraordinary play and production of "Our Class" is in its American premiere at the Wilma. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews.
Things are a bit crazy backstage at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre. It's two hours before the curtain goes up for the first preview performance of director Anders Cato's staging of Red, John Lo…
The explosive growth of Philadelphia's theater scene has coincided with a rise in local new-play development. Internationally produced playwrights Michael Hollinger and Bruce Graham and Inte…
The name says it all: A concept borrowed from Glasgow is drawing happy-hour crowds for a good show, good pizza, good cheer.
It's curious that Curio Theatre wasn't too intimidated by the Wilma Theater's 2008 production of Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice to produce it itself. That earlier version, with its Barrymore-winning …
NEW YORK - Nuance - the shadows and creases that provide depth and richness - is what makes the Off-Broadway production of Any Given Monday so different from its world-premiere version last …
NEW YORK - Nuance - the shadows and creases that provide depth and richness - is what makes the Off-Broadway production of Any Given Monday so different from its world-premiere version last …
DAVID SEDARIS is the writing equivalent of Bruce Springsteen. While other guys are playing smaller rooms, Sedaris consistently plays the equivalent of arenas. This week he's at the 1,800-sea…
Barrel Fever (1994)
Naked (1997)
Holidays on Ice (1997)
Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000)
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004)
This week, 1812 Productions' season opens with Mistakes Were Made, a comic play by Craig Wright that was named "Best of the Year" by both New York and Time magazines in 2010. The producer, a…
