Duty and demons - they are the stuff Henrik Ibsen's The Master Builder is made of. The great Norwegian playwright's work about a man who builds homes and great towers but cannot find pleasur…
Brown-nosing never goes out of fashion. That's why How to Succeed in Business Without Even Trying feels so current in its 50-year Broadway revival that opened Sunday night with a delightful …
With so many Irish plays sprouting this spring on Philadelphia stages, a celebration seemed in order. And, sure enough, a festival was born.
Let's raise a glass to shtick, the little, often unscripted physical stage business that can turn a moment of fun into a heightened laff-riot. And here's a toast to The 39 Steps - the show a…
Azuka Theatre is giving The Terrible Girls, an entertaining new theater piece by Jacqueline Goldfinger, a top-notch premiere. With a nifty set designed by Dirk Durossette that creates the ki…
Live music and more, tonight through Thursday, compiled by Shaun Brady, Tom Di Nardo, James Johnson, Sara Sherr and Jonathan Takiff.
The shocking thing about the new Broadway musical The Book of Mormon is not that it bursts with shocking things. C'mon! It comes from the minds of the creators of South Park.
When the cast of the Walnut Street Theatre's The Glass Menagerie packed it in after a final performance Saturday night, the performers were far from Philadelphia and the nation's oldest thea…
Here's a list of Elizabeth Taylor movies.
Dame Elizabeth Taylor, the Oscar-winning Hollywood actress whose personal life had tumult and drama to equal her 62 films, died today of congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Cent…
Actor, writer and monologist John Leguizamo is now officially a professional therapy patient. By that, I mean that we're paying him for the therapy that is his latest one-man show - a concei…
Philadelphia turned out Monday for the Kashu-juku Noh Theater at the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater, in a one-night run that was virtually sold out 10 days ago, and that inevitably became …
NEW YORK - An impossibly ripped performer named Nick Adams is actually able to act with his teeth. He sports great choppers, and you can tell just what his character is feeling by how much A…
ANNA DEAVERE Smith says that first and foremost, before she's an actress or a playwright, she is a student of expression. When it came to crafting her most recent work, "Let Me Down Eas…
Philadelphia turned out Monday for the Kashu-juku Noh Theater at the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater, in a one-night run that was virtually sold out 10 days ago, and that inevitably became …