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There are indeed parallels to be drawn between training pit bulls for dogfighting and soldiers for war. The Kevin Augustine-helmed Lone Wolf Tribe, in its production of Hobo Grunt Cycle, tak…
It's true, a great production can make a fine play even better - and it can sometimes raise the level of a so-so piece, too. That's happening at Bristol Riverside Theatre, where an excellent…
Concert promoter Live Nation Entertainment Inc. and online deal site Groupon are forming a venture to develop an online ticketing deal website called GrouponLive.
If Romeo and Juliet can be set in Miami, why can't The Importance of Being Earnest take place in Collingswood?
More nightclub show than theater, My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra is two hours of pure entertainment. There are no big thoughts to think, no complex plot to follow. Just a slew of…
Artistic director/choreographer Roni Koresh sometimes cherry-picks the best-received sections from his earlier dances, gathers them into a sequence, then gives the whole a title and a vague …
In Theresa Rebeck's play, commissioned by the University of Delaware's professional theater company, REP, Mic Matarrese (right) as the smarmy extremist talk-show host interviews Drew Brhel a…
Theatre Exile's Saturn Returns, by Noah Haidle, is a short play about a very long emotion - grief. It's about a man who cannot forget his dead wife and dead daughter, and we watch him endles…
If you're the type who has followed Philadelphia thespians around the local theater map, you've noticed one actor very nearly stuck - happily - in one location for 11 years: Fran Prisco.
If you're the type who has followed Philadelphia thespians around the local theater map, you've noticed one actor very nearly stuck - happily - in one location for 11 years: Fran Prisco.
NEW YORK - Who says Broadway won't take a risk? The Book of Mormon and The Scottsboro Boys - very different musicals with very different fates - have emerged with the most Tony Award nominat…
"The Book of Mormon" nabbed a leading 14 Tony Award nominations Tuesday, earning the profane musical one nod short of the record for most nominations and putting it in the driver's seat when…
And now, Broadway, coming to a movie theater near you.
Wait a minute. Broadway - in a movie theater? Isn't one of the main properties of live theater that it's not a movie?
Having the formidable Lady Bracknell among us - she appears in two of the three acts of Oscar Wilde's stylish comedy The Importance of Being Earnest - is to be faced down by Victorian London…
Having the formidable Lady Bracknell among us - she appears in two of the three acts of Oscar Wilde's stylish comedy The Importance of Being Earnest - is to be faced down by Victorian London…
If the play is the thing but the cost is not, there's theater at the cinema.
Josie Hogan is the go-to character in A Moon for the Misbegotten - she takes no grief from her widowed and drunken father, she secretly sends her brothers off into the world with his money, …
Kimmel Center security moved in Saturday night to remove a strangely clothed man wielding an empty wine bottle in the center's lobby.
Talk about taking on a challenge: EgoPo Classic Theater's artistic director, Lane Savadove, and local actor Ross Beschler set about adapting a 1908 French novel called L'Enfer, or Hell, to t…
The Kimmel Center's rooftop garden will be crowned with a new glassy box.
At the corner of Broad and Spruce Streets, the little-loved black granite cube has been marked for demolition.
I try not to each schmaltz because it's bad for me. After all, it's rendered chicken fat, with onion and chicken skin sautéed in its bubbly breakdown to add flavor to the cholesterol. …
NEW YORK - A Jewish housewife from Passaic, N.J., named Florence Greenberg was a pioneer in the '50s - first, she outsmarted the male-dominated pop record industry with her own Scepter recor…
BROADWAY MUSICALS run in packs.
This time last year, several were rocking the house - "American Idiot," "Million Dollar Quartet," "Fela," and "Memphis.&quo…
