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LOS ANGELES - Walt Disney's 1994 animated blockbuster "The Lion King" certainly hasn't been an endangered species for the studio. Not with an international gross of $788.2 million.…
The Inis Nua production, seen here in April, has opened Off-Broadway.
Experimental theater director Whit MacLaughlin moves in mysterious ways.
Experimental theater director Whit MacLaughlin moves in mysterious ways.
As the master of Philadelphia's New Paradise Laboratories, MacLaughlin and his revolving-door company have created a…
Deborah Block's South Philly neighbors can frequently spot her running between her stage gig as co-artistic director of Theatre Exile and her home gig with tech director/husband Doug Smullen…
Everyone, it seems, loves to watch A.R. Gurney's Sylvia, and everyone loves to produce it. Since 1995, the comedy about a boy and his dog, and his wife, and his midlife crisis as projected o…
If you're not sold on the revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies by the time Bernadette Peters walks onto a lonely, red-lit stage on Broadway and gives desperate life to the torch song "…
Directors are directing, designers are designing, and actors are taking to stages all over the region as the new season begins, with nearly 50 professional companies mounting shows in 2011-1…
Here are some promising stage possibilities in the first half of the new season. They include work from two companies that have themes for the season: Ego Po, concentrating on Jewish-themed …
Producers looking for someone to replace Daniel Radcliffe on Broadway have landed their prize _ a Jonas.
The Wilma Theater's production of an offbeat, often funny play about the early history of vibrators and a children's show at the Arden Theatre top the nominations for the Barrymore Awards fo…
The Wilma Theater's production of an offbeat, often funny play about the early history of vibrators and a children's show at the Arden Theatre top the nominations for the Barrymore Awards fo…
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Experimental drama The conceit of Rude Mechs' comedy The Method Gun is that it is based on the faux history of acting coach Stella Burden, who once developed "the most dangerous …
And so my Fringe begins - with a resounding thud. The first show of Luna Theater's season (and one of the first shows of Philly Fringe), is Fin Kennedy's How to Disappear Completely and Neve…
The 199 shows on tap for Live Arts / Philly Fringe could be overwhelming. Here's how to find your way through its serious, scintillating, silly wonders.
The actors are setting up shop, as are the dancers, comics, acrobats, clowns, musicians, and uncategorizable others - some from around America, others from across the sea, many from zip code…
Theater producers in New York decided not to mess with Hurricane Irene's drama and canceled weekend shows both on and off-Broadway.
A visit to the production's first preview on Wednesday - one I planned for personal edification weeks ago, when all I knew was that McDonald would be singing this great music - proved that t…
Marcia Gay Harden took up a paintbrush Tuesday morning to help refurbish the Community Education Center in Powelton Village.
The Mystic River star joined about 40 volunteers as they put the …
Here's a shocker: Good news from Washington. Unlike Congress, three major theaters in D.C. have been winning rave review after rave review, from Wooly Mammoth's Clybourne Park to Kennedy Cen…
The women have it all over the men down the Shore this summer - at least on stage. During lemming time, the current period when Philadelphians seem to flock to Jersey beaches with an innate …
An insidious drip has started at the Philadelphia Orchestra, and this one will be hard to stanch. Talent is leaving.
When it seemed as though Pennies in a Jar - the album that Nikki Jean cowrote with such legendary tunesmiths as Burt Bacharach, Carole King, and Bob Dylan - might never come out, the Philade…
Alas, not to mention alack: This summer's production of The Comedy of Errors is embarrassingly amateurish and painfully dull. Everyone speaks very slowly and rhythmically, as if they had mem…
CENTER VALLEY, Pa. - Nobody had a makeup artist in the Elizabethan theater, or a lighting designer, choreographer, or even a director.
