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I go into my interview with Oscar and Tony-winning British playwright Tom Stoppard with a laundry list of questions, but I quickly forget all about them once I sit down across […]

Who says you can’t go home again? Pig Iron Theatre is now 20 years old. In that time, the locally based company has moved from […]

Scholars of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler will continue to debate why the protagonist (that’s Hedda, of course) is so profoundly unhappy. But there’s no doubt she’s […]

The first time I saw Bill Irwin perform Fool Moon in the 1990s on Broadway, with his co-conspirator and fellow clown David Shiner, my cheeks […]

They dress up as nuns at midnight, fall asleep, wake up every half-hour, and improvise. That may sound really strange, and, heck, it sort of […]

There are few works currently playing in Philadelphia that are as thought-provoking and engaging as the premiere of Emma Goidel’s A Knee That Can Bend, which […]

Philadelphia Theatre Company’s dazzling production of Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville comes to us as part of a trifecta – Princeton’s McCarter Theatre and Washington’s Arena Stage […]

It could hardly be a more difficult time to open a comedy — even one as popular as This Is the Week That Is, 1812 […]

It’s hard to believe the Broadway production of The Book of Mormon will turn five next year, and that the show is just as inappropriate, just as […]

I get off a 32-seat plane in the middle of Lafayette, Louisiana and head almost directly to the town’s Cajundome, an arena that houses the likes of Disney […]

The holiday season is almost here – often a perfect time for a weekend visit to New York City. For me, almost by definition, that […]

In the 1980s, America collectively fell head over heels in love with Dr. Ruth Westheimer. And why wouldn’t we? The diminutive German-born therapist was a […]

It’s an odd thing about holiday season musicals. On one hand, they’re often very successful – at least between November and January – with a […]

Is a show like Matilda: The Musical too big to properly tour? That question was definitely on my mind last evening after I left the performance at the […]

“Who is to tell me what I can and cannot write? Who are you to tell me that?” I caught New York City playwright Chad […]