How often does a Broadway musical pop up in a closed-circuit, high-definition video presentation at movie theaters, priced at a mere $20 a ticket, when the selfsame show is still pulling in …
Far from Center City or Off-Broadway or any of the places where you'd most expect it, an experiment in the avant-garde is under way in gritty, workaday Norristown.
NEW YORK - An actor seriously injured at the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark returned to work Monday, only four months after he plummeted 35 feet from an onstage platform.
NEW YORK - On an October day in 1965, Pope Paul VI was ahead of his time: He went on the road like a rock star of later decades.
You don't mess around with Harry Brock, the self-made New Jersey junk-metal dealer and possible wiseguy, 'cause he don't need no lip from nobody, 'specially you. Watch out for his babe, too.…
NEW YORK - Jez Butterworth's new play Jerusalem, which opened Thursday, is doubly sprawling. First off, its three acts unfold in a way that takes countless verbal twists and turns in a woode…
NEW YORK - Dear Lord, what is that joyful noise rising to heaven from the spirited, snazzily habited stage nuns at the Broadway Theatre? Could it be - the Philadelphia Sound of the '70s? Cou…
NEW YORK - Reports of the New York City Opera's decline have been exaggerated, at least at the moment. Though the company has the perpetual challenge of living next door to the glittering Me…
NEW YORK - Dear Lord, what is that joyful noise rising to heaven from the spirited, snazzily habited stage-nuns at the Broadway Theatre? Could it be - the Philadelphia Sound of the '70s? Cou…
NEW YORK - It's always satisfying to watch an actor deliver an inspired performance, no matter where the stage. But it's a special joy to see young Philadelphian Evan Jonigkeit - who grew st…
NEW YORK - It's always satisfying to watch an actor deliver an inspired performance, no matter where the stage. But it is a special joy to see the young Philadelphia actor Evan Jonigkeit - w…
The enjoyable Chasin' Dem Blues, playing in a vibrant production at the Delaware Theatre Company, has an apt title for two reasons: The show chases away the blues by singing the blues - a ti…
NEW YORK - Kathleen Turner is as confused as anyone about the heavenly detour her roles have taken lately.
Weather-wise, spring is returning to Philadelphia in fits and starts. But inside the Wilma Theater Wednesday night the stage bloomed with potted flowers, campy song, loopy dance, and balloon…
I enjoyed A Passing Wind - how can you poo-poo a show that seizes the characters of Sigmund Freud (the excellent Tim Moyer), actress Sarah Bernhardt (Maureen Torsney-Weir), artist Claude Mon…
Before Media Theatre's production of The Who's Tommy, there was the double album. For one growing up in and around the 1970s, the songs that signified the birth of the rock opera were playin…
A movie starring Denzel Washington was a little too thrilling for a Cape Town neighborhood that has experienced gang violence.
Bernice/Butterfly is an evening of two one-act plays tied together by a single thread in their story lines, but what really binds them tightly at Hedgerow Theatre is performances by two vete…