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4,393 stories from Philly.com

Broadway Review: Man and Boy by Leah Kauffman

SOURCE: Philly.com at 5:40pm on October 9, 2011☆⚑

To sell tickets, theaters get creative

If you walked your pooch past Act II Playhouse in Ambler last month, you and your dog could have gotten a little deal.

SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:38am on October 9, 2011☆⚑

A nuanced, courageous 'August: Osage County' by Toby Zinman

The play, at the Arden, is immense not only in its ambitions but also in its length (3½ hours) and in its scope: generations of monsters, each vying for sympathy, understanding, and love,…

SOURCE: Philly.com at 6:16am on October 7, 2011☆⚑

Getting serious by Kathy Boccella

Dylan Gelula insists she never expected to be cast as the mature-beyond-her-years teen in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, August: Osage County, opening Wednesday night at the Arden Theatre.

SOURCE: Philly.com at 6:14am on October 7, 2011☆⚑

Bristol takes 'Little Prince' to N.Y. | Philadelphia Inquirer | 10/05/2011 by Howard Shapiro

The theater, in its first tour, stages improved version of the show Off-Broadway.

SOURCE: Philly.com at 1:02pm on October 5, 2011☆⚑

Bristol takes 'Little Prince' to N.Y.

NEW YORK - Bristol Riverside Theatre's stage adaptation of the beloved fantasy The Little Prince is a study in how a production grows. In January, when it was part of Bristol's season, the s…

SOURCE: Philly.com at 2:52am on October 5, 2011☆⚑

Wilma Theater's 'In the Next Room' tops at Barrymores by Howard Shapiro

The Wilma Theater led all others Monday night at the 2011 Barrymore Awards, the region's professional theater honors, for its production of Sarah Ruhl's offbeat, often funny play In the Next…

SOURCE: Philly.com at 6:36am on October 4, 2011☆⚑

Wilma Theater's 'In the Next Room' tops at Barrymores

The Wilma Theater led all others Monday night at the 2011 Barrymore Awards, the region's professional theater honors, for its production of Sarah Ruhl's offbeat, often funny play In the Next…

SOURCE: Philly.com at 1:14am on October 4, 2011☆⚑

In this 'Chicago,' the sin seems less deliciously sinful

There are a lot of years between Roxie Hart and Casey Anthony, but the more things change, the more they stay the same. Chicago, that musical vaudeville starring sex, murder, sexy murderesse…

SOURCE: Philly.com at 1:02am on October 4, 2011☆⚑

Singin' in the rain

By some estimates, the Opera Company of Philadelphia's outdoor simulcast of Carmen at Independence Mall on Friday was a washout, literally, due to a steady, sometimes heavy, always chilly ra…

SOURCE: Philly.com at 1:02am on October 4, 2011☆⚑

Ruhl's 'Cell Phone' drops call

Presented by Simpatico Theatre Project through Oct. 23 at the Walnut Street Theatre's Independence Studio, Ninth and Walnut Streets.

SOURCE: Philly.com at 1:02am on October 4, 2011☆⚑

Big night for Wilma, Horizon at the Barrymore Awards

The Wilma Theater led all others Monday night at the 2011 Barrymore Awards, the region's professional theater honors, for its production of Sarah Ruhl's offbeat, often funny play In the Next…

SOURCE: Philly.com at 9:58pm on October 3, 2011☆⚑

2011 Barrymore Awards

Play In the Next Room, or the vibrator play, The Wilma Theater

SOURCE: Philly.com at 9:39pm on October 3, 2011☆⚑

'Billy Elliot' to close on Broadway in January

"Billy Elliot the Musical" is planning its last dance on Broadway.

SOURCE: Philly.com at 5:44pm on October 3, 2011☆⚑

Review: Black Coffee by Howard Shapiro

Agatha Christie's theatrical mystery, Black Coffee, is like her work in general: methodical and not showy. So too is her primary hero, the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. And the same go…

SOURCE: Philly.com at 6:21am on October 3, 2011☆⚑

Review: Media Theatre's "Chicago" by Wendy Rosenfield

With young talent such as Barrymore-winning actor Jennie Eisenhower as director, and Jenn Rose (The Great American Trailer Park Musical) as choreographer, you'd think excitement wouldn't be …

SOURCE: Philly.com at 6:20am on October 3, 2011☆⚑

Kimmel Center strike halted for a week in 'cooling off' period

The giant rat has been deflated. Extra security has gone home. And, after an 18-hour strike by workers at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, the shows will go on Sunday.

SOURCE: Philly.com at 4:45pm on October 2, 2011☆⚑

Kimmel Center strike halted for a week

SOURCE: Philly.com at 10:55pm on October 1, 2011☆⚑

How are Barrymore finalists chosen?

If you go to the theater, you may be sitting beside them. They could be there any night, at any of the 51 professional theater companies producing plays and musicals throughout metropolitan …

SOURCE: Philly.com at 6:35pm on October 1, 2011☆⚑

'Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness': Portrait of 'the Yiddish Mark Twain'

'Let my name be remembered with laughter - or not at all!" wrote Sholem Aleichem, "the Yiddish Mark Twain," in a will published the day after his death at 57 in 1916.

SOURCE: Philly.com at 5:06pm on September 22, 2011☆⚑

'Ten Cents a Dance': Wonderful melodies, steeped in melancholy

The real stars of this show, now at Princeton's McCarter Theatre, are Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. More than two dozen of their wonderful melodies and clever lyrics make up Ten Cents a D…

SOURCE: Philly.com at 1:52am on September 21, 2011☆⚑

Living with a teen aging way too soon by Howard Shapiro

In Kimberly Akimbo, which opened Thursday and is getting a good ride at Theatre Horizon in Norristown, playwright David Lindsay-Abaire calls for an actress in her 50s to play a 16-year-old.

SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:05am on September 17, 2011☆⚑

Living with a teen aging way too soon

In Kimberly Akimbo, which opened Thursday and is getting a good ride at Theatre Horizon in Norristown, playwright David Lindsay-Abaire calls for an actress in her 50s to play a 16-year-old.

SOURCE: Philly.com at 1:31am on September 17, 2011☆⚑

Performance and classical music listings

Theater Professional/semi-professional 11th Hour Theatre Company: The Bomb-itty of Errors Hip-hop version of Shakespeare's 'The Comedy of Errors.' Closes 9/25. Adrienne Theatre, 2030 Sansom …

SOURCE: Philly.com at 2:41pm on September 16, 2011☆⚑

'Aspects of Love': Confused tale of a love quintangle by Howard Shapiro

It's all a bit much - and a bit too little. Lloyd Webber's painfully swollen music (played with gusto by the Walnut's orchestra, which knows its way around a crescendo, or two, or maybe 70) …

SOURCE: Philly.com at 9:03am on September 16, 2011☆⚑
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