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Raw, intense and caustically funny, the new play called The Motherf**ker With the Hat is as in-your-face as its unlikely name. And if that name - spelled officially with the asterisks, as ab…
Broadway's winning new Catch Me if You Can gives you lots of reasons to love the musical, fashioned from Stephen Spielberg's 2002 film. The most delicious moments, for me, come when Catch Me…
Wanamaker's Pursuit, a new play by Rogelio Martinez at the Arden Theatre, is the first show of the Paris-themed PIFA (Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts). It is not an auspiciou…
John Jorgenson Quintet
With his swinging, acoustic gypsy jazz tunes in the Django Reinhardt tradition, Jorgenson coulda/shoulda been on the French-focused PIFA schedule (see above). But he's…
Sometimes those big ships really feel the waves. In the Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival of Cole Porter's 1934 musical-on-a-cruise, Anything Goes, the waves hit early.
Wanamaker's Pursuit, a new play by Rogelio Martinez at the Arden Theatre, is the first show of the Paris-themed PIFA (Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts). It is not an auspiciou…
For much of the current season, anybody remotely interested in opera has encountered startling photos of star tenor Juan Diego Florez in nun drag - not the pared-down current look, but more …
* Playwrights Athol Fugard
and Eve Ensler (left) will receive special honors at the Tony Awards on June 12. Fugard, the South African author of " 'Master Harold' . . . and the Boys&quo…
"BAD GIRLS CLUB" star Catya Washington is among the stars of "Single Black Female," a new play by South Philly-native playwright/director Kash Goins.
Even as poor Spider-Man and his many enemies get hung up in midair as technical (and other) problems haunt the new comic-hero Broadway musical, directly across 42d Street another heroic char…
Jan. 28, 1977: Joseph Anthony Fatone Jr. born to Joseph and Phyllis Fatone in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, N.Y.
1990: Fatone family moves to Orlando, Fla.
IT WASN'T that long ago that Joey Fatone was twirling, gliding and crooning his way across hockey-arena stages while thousands of young girls squealed at his every move, and that of his four…
It will unspool over more than three weeks, from the Kimmel Center to Chestnut Hill to Cheyney University and back to Broad Street - 145 performances, exhibitions, lectures, screenings, read…
With its vast array of 145 events, the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts has one admission requirement for nearly everyone on and off stage: faith that highly touted collaborat…
Although Judi Dench is perhaps best known to American film audiences for her Oscar-winning turn in Shakespeare in Love and for portraying "M" in the more recent James Bond movies, …
In the middle of a whirlwind week this month, Rose Hemingway finished stage-smooching with Daniel Radcliffe in a matinee performance of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and t…
The Pride of Parnell Street at Act II Playhouse in Ambler is a love story. Like so many Irish plays, it's told in monologues, making it seem more like storytelling than like conventional, di…
Presented by Walnut Street Theatre's Independence Studio on 3, 825 Walnut St., through April 17. Tickets: $30. Information: 215-574-3550 or www.walnutstreettheatre.org.
Oh, the ironies of life, they are many. In Speaking of Tongues, at Walnut Street Theatre's third-floor Independence stage, they are unstoppable - so many ironies pour forth, they begin to fe…
The ghosts and demons in the new play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, which opened Thursday night with Robin Williams in his Broadway debut, may intrigue you, but the clutter of metaphors m…
Science fiction isn't normally encountered in the higher-brow realms of theater and opera, but when it is, the world is more likely to listen to their cautionary tales of a possibly disastro…
NEW YORK - In the middle of a whirlwind week this month, Rose Hemingway finished stage-smooching with Daniel Radcliffe in a matinee performance of How to Succeed in Business Without Really T…
The Pride of Parnell Street at Act II Playhouse in Ambler is a love story. Like so many Irish plays, it's told in monologues, making it seem more like storytelling than like conventional, di…
Her note said, "Au revoir," and, true to her word, the grandmother of all nannies is back. Before Nanny McPhee or TV's Supernanny, there was Mary Poppins, and she still rules. And …
