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Lincoln Center's reboot of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific has at least one thing in common with Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival's version: its Emile de Becque. William Michals und…
It took some time before Brian Yorkey figured out exactly what mental condition would plague his leading lady. Yet even before the librettist/lyricist had paired the symptoms with a diagnosi…
This is a time of deep fiscal uncertainty for arts organizations in the Philadelphia region and across the state.
New Freedom Theatre's reading of Alice Childress' Trouble in Mind will likely be inspiring for the black theater community, yet tinged with frustration.
The Bard has plenty of company in playhouses this season.
How do you get a contemporary-flavored musical about mental illness - a bipolar personality and her semidysfunctional family - successfully to Broadway, and now the road?
An idealistic actor is drawing performers to do their thing on the former estate of a trolley magnate in Cheltenham. And the results are free to see.
NEW YORK - The scene would have been hard to imagine three months ago, when Julie Taymor was pushed aside as director of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," an unprecedentedly expensi…
SO ONE CLEAR day a little over a year ago, Walter Clay, a Philly firefighter and West Philly homeowner, was washing his car in front of his neatly kept rowhome. A couple tentatively approach…
NEW YORK - Spider-Man has taken a quantum leap.
Yeah, I know, Spider-Man is supposed to do that, that's his job. But we're talking about Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, the most expensive sho…
Spider-Man has taken a quantum leap. Yeah, I know, Spider-Man is supposed to do that, that's his job. But we're talking about Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, the most expensive show in Broadw…
NEW YORK - Ellen Barkin won the first acting Tony Award on a night that promised to be a big one for the profane musical "The Book of Mormon."
The profane and hysterical "The Book of Mormon" took home nine Tony Awards on Sunday including the prize for best musical, a considerable achievement for a pair of first-time Broadway playwr…
NEW YORK - It was a season on Broadway that was bursting with brilliance and unpredictability. There was Shakespeare, Wilde, and Stoppard, but who could have foreseen a musical with a song a…
Forrest McClendon, an actor familiar to Philadelphia audiences, is up for a Tony in the daring but star-crossed "The Scottsboro Boys," coming here in 2012.
When Forrest McClendon was interviewed backstage after winning the 2009 Barrymore Award for best supporting actor in a musical (it was 11th Hour Theatre Company's production of Avenue X), he…
The Tony Awards, Broadway's highest accolades, will be televised Sunday - the night each year when Broadway is most clearly on the nation's radar. But in cities big and small, Broadway means…
A labor dispute is threatening to make a mess of the Tony Awards, forcing actors to cross picket lines to attend the red carpet for Broadway's biggest ceremony.
Leonard Stern, a prolific writer-producer-director whose credits include "The Honeymooners," "Get Smart," and "McMillan and Wife," died Tuesday. He was 88.
A friend, upon hearing that The Belle of Amherst was in production at Rose Valley's Hedgerow Theatre, commented, "That thing is going to play until there's nothing left on Earth but Cher doi…
A friend, upon hearing that The Belle of Amherst was in production at Rose Valley's Hedgerow Theatre, commented, "That thing is going to play until there's nothing left on Earth but Che…
Two Into One is the 10th Ray Cooney farce produced by Hedgerow Theatre. It's also the 10th with longtime company members Zoran Kovcic and Susan Wefel. And it's the second Cooney work featuri…
Plays & Players' production of Lost in Yonkers, Neil Simon's 1991 Pulitzer-winner, is a textured and moving family drama. The play only pretends to be a comedy, with its sitcom set-ups and o…
A joint production of "The Great American Trailer Park Musical" by 11th Hour Theatre Company and Montgomery Theater, staged at Montgomery Theater in Souderton in February, reopened…
Although James Levine barely made it through his 40th anniversary season at the Metropolitan Opera, he did so with his stature undiminished.
