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Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer-winning "Ruined" is about African civil war, genocide, and, foremost, the assault on women.
'The war in my play is being fought on at least three fronts," says playwright Lynn Nottage.
She's speaking of Ruined, the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama now being produced by the Philade…
At the Wilma Theater, where Alan Ayckbourn's comedy My Wonderful Day starts off quietly and gets funnier and funnier as it plows forward for 90 minutes, I was completely bamboozled - and wha…
Vigil, by Morris Panych at Lantern Theater, is about a man waiting for an old woman to finally die. He waits and waits; months go by, the seasons change, and still he waits. Watching Vigil I…
In Lynn Nottage's powerfully crafted Ruined, which opened Wednesday night in director Maria Mileaf's riveting production by the Philadelphia Theatre Company, you want so much to believe that…
Under Bruce Lumpkin's direction, everyone uses big Broadway voices, straining to create lots of passion and intensity but with few genuine emotional moments. What a waste that Jeff Coons and…
ATLANTA - Horror writer Stephen King's first play, The Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, featuring haunting melodies by rocker John Mellencamp, is finally ready for the stage.
If it's true that hard work never killed anyone, Sir Alan Ayckbourn surely will live forever.
Ambitious and prodigious, with more than 70 plays (and counting) behind him, the 72-year-old Ay…
U2 IS SET TO perform tomorrow night on the season finale of "American Idol."
It should be an interesting juxtaposition: A long-running band that writes its own songs and frequently…
Saturday Tuning up at the Mann The Mann Center for the Performing Arts will open its 2011 summer season on Saturday with Philadelphia on Parade, its first, free all-day music and arts festiv…
THE NOVELIST F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote that there are no second acts in American lives. If that's true, then Harry Philibosian's first 57 years must qualify as an elaborate rehearsa…
A confession: When I was assigned to review Act II Playhouse's production of Art, Yasmina Reza's 1995 three-way dysfunctional bromance, I didn't want to. During a Chicago theater blitz a few…
KATHLEEN TURNER, Tyne Daly and playwright Terrence McNally will be among guests at the Philadelphia Theatre Company's 35th-anniversary gala June 6 at the Hyatt at the Bellevue.
Recipe for a classic Southern play, à la the late, famous, folksy Texas playwright Horton Foote.
1. Find an excellent cast, such as the one at People's Light currently performing Foote…
A confession: When I was assigned to review Act II Playhouse's production of Art, Yasmina Reza's 1995 three-way dysfunctional bromance, I didn't want to. During a Chicago theater blitz a few…
NEW YORK - Alan Menken's the guy who did it. The man who gave us the tunes from The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Pocahontas, Aladdin, Little Shop of Horrors, and others - he did it.…
The Arden Theatre does not consider your children second-class citizens, not even the youngest ones. As is the case with their world-premiere work The Flea and the Professor, they're happy t…
The clever, sweet new musical Sleeping Beauty Wakes, at Princeton's McCarter Theatre Center, is about what happens when science runs up against love.
Gerald Bordman, 79, of Bala Cynwyd, a former businessman and scholar who wrote more than a dozen books about American theater, died of cancer Monday, May 9, at Saunders House in Wynnewood.
Scott Organ's one-act, Phoenix, which Flashpoint Theatre Company is presenting at the Adrienne, is a painful sort of romantic comedy of contemporary manners. It's not surprising to learn tha…
CHICAGO - Oprah Winfrey has long said she would love to return to acting. And as her iconic talk show approaches its final episode, Winfrey clearly is moving quickly to turn her dream of app…
Neil Patrick Harris will return as host for the upcoming Tony Awards.
Two large funders have rewarded regional arts organizations with substantial grants for projects that seek to push arts activities out into communities, draw in previously ignored or overloo…
Thirty-six Philadelphia-based arts organizations are the recipients of $2.7 million from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation through the Knight Arts Challenge.
In its 10th anniversary 2011-12 season, the Kimmel Center is holding steady with 50-odd events - same as the current season - that don't stray far from the mainstream of their respective gen…
