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Angel Corella was appointed artistic director of Philadelphia Ballet, formerly Pennsylvania Ballet, in 2014. Under his leadership, the company has built a reputation for combining…
View More Angel Corella Marks a Decade of Artistic Leadership at Philadelphia Ballet
Warning: These seven marvelous actors in the all female cast, are not your nice Aunt Sara. Wild and untamed, they’re women without borders. Stepping out…
View More POTUS (Arden): Brash and in your face
Whitaker, a Florida native, is touring in the role of Mafala Hatimbi, the Ugandan village chief.
View More Tribal Ties: Lamont J. Whitaker as Mafala Hatimbi in The Book of Mormon
74-year-old Susie Wefel is leaving Hedgerow House after 45 years. It’s not a choice she made herself.
View More Home No More: Hedgerow’s last company member must leave Hedgerow House
Philadelphia native Steve Czarnecki returns home this month in the national tour of Les Misérables. In addition to his role in the ensemble, Czarnecki serves…
View More One Day More/ Part II: Catching up with Les Misérables’ Steve Czarnecki
Philly native Sean Thompson returns to the area with the North American Tour of Funny Girl, arriving at the Academy of Music July 16, 2024.
View More Hello Gorgeous: Sean Thompson returns to Philly in FUNNY GIRL
Father Comes Home From The Wars by Suzan-Lori Parks is remarkable in many ways. There’s no denying the appeal that took the audience to its…
View More FATHER COMES HOME FROM THE WARS (Qunitessence): A theatrical odyssey
One of Shakespeare’s greatest hits, his first comedy, The Comedy of Errors, is playing at the Lantern Theater Company until June 16. Twins, shipwreck, mistaken…
View More THE COMEDY OF ERRORS (Lantern): Twins, shipwreck, mistaken identity, romance gone awry
Dancer Lizzie Gough first worked with choreographer Kate Prince over a decade ago. The two have been joining forces on various projects ever since.
View More Message in a Bottle: Interview with Lizzie Gough
Now this is what a collective can do: a huge cast all so attuned to each others’ idiosyncrasies that they might as well be the household they are portraying.
View More CHILDREN OF THE SUN (PAC): A knockout contemporary production of a rarely seen classic
South Camden Theatre Company’s latest production of James Ijames’s wildly moving play, Kill Move Paradise, is terrific
View More KILL MOVE PARADISE (South Camden Theatre): 60-second review
Although the defense of gay life and the LGBTQ+ community is in a different place now, I imagine for many in the audience, Torch Song still sings.
View More TORCH SONG (1812 Productions): Songs from another time
What with the solar eclipse and an earthquake, we—sophisticated, scientific, blasé—are in a perfect position to imagine what ancient, primitive people must have thought and felt when the ground shook and the lights went out.
View More HADESTOWN (National Tour): To hell and back
In what other walks of musical life would a piece composed more than seventy years ago by a composer born more than one hundred years ago constitute new music?
View More Intersection (Curtis New Music Ensemble): “New music” from the rebranded ensemble
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Cool it with a baboon’s blood, then the charm is firm and good. Macbeth, the…
View More MACBETH (Quintessence): Onstage magic
A tale about cotton, Civil War, commodities, finance, and wealth told through the story of three brothers and the company they found.
View More THE LEHMAN TRILOGY (Arden): A play in three acts
Penn grad Nick Silverio returns to Philadelphia in the national tour of Disney’s FROZEN
View More Whiteout: Interview with Nick Silverio from Disney’s Frozen
Inis Nua has done its best with a story more told than shown, an aftermath.
View More Once Upon a Bridge (Inis Nua): 60-second review
Azuka Theatre presents Overwinter, an interesting new play by local playwright Mackenzie Raine Kirkman; it’s about important ideas, making it a welcome change from the…
View More OVERWINTER (Azuka): A laboratory for important ideas
The critically acclaimed Girl from the North Country is making its way to the Forrest Theatre this month with local actor Chiara Trentalange.
View More Girl from the North Country: Interview with Actress Chiara Trentalange