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Joyce E. Henry, 83, professor emerita of theater, English, and communication studies at Ursinus College, died of cancer Monday, July 11, at her home in Collegeville.
Theater The Male Intellect:
An Oxymoron? The war between the sexes is an ancient theme, but the battle keeps going on - at least in the minds of theater artists, who mine it in plots and su…
Like some nocturnal flower, opera tends to wilt when exposed to direct sunlight.
Lucky for Rigoletto that it's mostly an indoor/nighttime opera in this latest site-specific TV film, produced…
For some buyers, a New Jersey home that's for sale just might be their scream house.
NEW YORK - In what seems like, oh, a couple weeks since it was last on Broadway, the Public Theater production of the iconic tribal-love-rock-musical Hair is back again. You could call it th…
William Shakespeare's comedy All's Well that Ends Well is the more-than-usual stretch. It involves a count who, without apparent reason, is turned off by a woman he's later forced to marry a…
Who is killing the royal members of Britain's House of Plantagenet? According to Shakespeare's murder-laden Richard III, in free performances this month by the Commonwealth Classic Theatre C…
John Rosenberg's intense new play is set on his birthday in 1976, but has nothing to do with him, only with the era. A week before his October birth, the leaders of Germany's terroristic Baa…
John Rosenberg's intense new play is set on his birthday in 1976, but has nothing to do with him, only with the era. A week before his October birth, the leaders of Germany's terroristic Baa…
In the crisp, fluid rendering of Tartuffe by Temple University's professional Repertory Theater, the maid is a strikingly insolent Genevieve Perrier, who spouts orders and insults in a charm…
NEW YORK - How often do you want an opera to be at least a half-hour longer?
So it is with the radically reimagined, 90-minute version of Mozart's The Magic Flute, playing through July 17 at…
Master Class is a play about Maria Callas, but its Broadway revival that opened Thursday night is just as much about a theatrical master, Tyne Daly. She shines as she plays Callas with the s…
Colin Quinn's solo show Long Story Short, visiting Philadelphia Theatre Company's Suzanne Roberts Theatre after an extended Broadway run, makes good on its title.
Colin Quinn's solo show Long Story Short, visiting Philadelphia Theatre Company's Suzanne Roberts Theatre after an extended Broadway run, makes good on its title. In the first 10 minutes, Qu…
Summer arts festivals are in the business of selling experiences to a public that doesn't know it wants them.
The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, whose 2012 program budget was cut 70 percent by the State House of Representatives, seems to have dodged a bullet: The Senate restored almost all the fu…
And the rest is history. Or will be, when Colin Quinn takes the stage Wednesday night to begin a run of his one-man show Long Story Short, directed by Jerry Seinfeld (yes, him), at the Suzan…
COLIN QUINN had a modest goal for his new one-man show, "Long Story Short."
"I wanted to do [a show] about the whole world, just encompass the whole world," Quinn said.
In Montgomery Theater's production of The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Tony Braithwaite is mad as hell and he's not gonna take it anymore. On the heels of another heated role - Marc, in Yasmin…
The reboot of the "Spider-Man" musical on Broadway enjoyed a strong second straight week at the box office, leaving the two lead producers cautiously optimistic about the show's strength.
At its heart, The Comedy of Errors is a ridiculous play with a preposterous premise. Scholars will point out its classical roots - two works by Plautus, conjoined - or its early window onto …
Kids and music come together Saturday in Center City for a playdate.
Children can enjoy an early afternoon of fun as KidsinCenterCity.com offers an event with the School of Rock at The Marke…
In a snapshot of finances, the Philadelphia Orchestra Association is claiming $16 million in assets and $700,000 in liabilities in a recent filing attached to its chapter 11 petition in U.S.…
The musical "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" will go on as scheduled Thursday night, a day after the cast and crew were shaken by a death backstage that scrubbed a performa…
Once discussions of Next to Normal's unusual subject matter - a family's struggle with bipolar disorder - wind down, the next topic is generally Alice Ripley's voice. Ripley originated the r…
