It's a huge moment for Ithamar Moses, hot TV writer ("Boardwalk Empire") and author of this year's Tony-sweeper, "The Band's Visit." And the embrace of "Completeness," its way of splicing is…
Nearly six decades on, the piece still has its charms - above all, its score.
Theatre Horizon opens its rendition of the 1982 novel by Alice Walker that tells the story of Celie, a young black woman, and her journey to self-discovery in the deep corners of the America…
Roald Dahl is all over the place, thanks to "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" at the Academy of Music and now "Matilda," the music of the Dahl story, at the Walnut. This is a good-looking,…
Young choir singers from Philly and South Jersey are part of the holiday family musical 'The Little Dancer'
Doug Hamilton is in Philadelphia to lend some family heirlooms to the Museum of the American Revolution. Two go on display Tuesday.
Stockard Channing and Hugh Dancy star in this abrasive family drama, an intellectual soap opera aspiring to tragedy.
"King Kong" has arrived on Broadway. The show manages, while not being the greatest musical per se, to be immense and immensely entertaining. The star of the show, the star of the night, is …
"King Kong" has arrived on Broadway. The show manages, while not being the greatest musical per se, to be immense and immensely entertaining. The star of the show, the star of the night, is …
Plus, Richard Buckner with John Train and the Travelin' McCourys.
In the hands of JC Lee, the story of Achilles and Patroclus opens up into a meditation on war, identity, and sexual orientation. This is not your high-school teacher's Homer, but maybe it sh…
The Wilma evokes a satiric, postapocalyptic world in which a group of refugees take solace in an episode of "The Simpsons." In the Wilma's gripping and ambitious production, "The Simpsons" f…
Lucas Hnaf's Tony-winning sequel to the Ibsen classic got to the Arden very quickly after its glittery Broadway run, and the Arden requites it with a sharp, edgy production. There's no closu…
The two Philly products, stars of music, Broadway, and film, will be on buses going to Harrisburg and Warminster on Nov. 5 to campaign for George Scott and Scott Wallace, respectively.
Robert Newman has had great success in TV, especially in "Guiding Light," the soap opera that was his bread and butter for almost three decades. But his first love, he says, has always been …
Euripides' tragedy of the vengeful, magnificent filicidal wife of Jason gets a stripped-down treatment at the Hedgerow that nevertheless stays true to the muscular rendition by Robinson Jeff…
What's the best thing about dogs? Self-forgiveness, he told us.
Kenn Kweder tells you a story.
"This exhibit makes the point that many of Hamilton's chief contributions and deepest challenges happened right here in Philadelphia. "