Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat has origins as early as 1968, when Andrew Lloyd Webber was asked to write a “pop cantata” for St. Paul’s […]
Ticket arts writers weigh in on what they think are the most important local arts moments of 2015. Brava, Diva! It’s been a banner year […]
“Oh, honey, you got an actor out of bed before noon!” Nilaja Sun and I both chuckle pretty loudly. “You were an actor too, weren’t […]
The Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts has dropped a planned staging of the musical Thoroughly Modern Millie after students complained about […]
If you’re a regular Philadelphia theater consumer, then this new holiday video, featuring just about everyone you can possibly think of from our artistic community — […]
If you’re ringing in the New Year in New York, why not add some theater to your celebrations? Two comedies — one gay, one transgender […]
What a sense of nostalgia I felt, entering the Prince Theater for the first time in years! I haven’t been in the main auditorium since […]
I couldn’t have an interview with Andy Blankenbuehler without asking about Hamilton, the mega Broadway musical which he choreographed that has equivocally become a cultural phenomenon. Sure, I was […]
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 […]
