Mary Martello News

The Walnut's 'Les Miz' is a fresh new vision of the world's most popular musical.

Terrence J. Nolan takes a bold and impressive leap with material that is both brilliant and brutal with Sondheim's 'Assassins.'

Philly's top theaters are honored at the Merriam Theater.

The 2006 Barrymore Awards, celebrating achievement in Philadelphia-area theatre, were announced on October 23rd at the Merriam Theatre

The Lenape Regional Performing Arts Center goes out on a limb to open its doors to most likely one of the largest attended musical readings ever remembered.

Christopher Durang, Frank Wildhorn, Lauren Kennedy and Jarrod Emick were among those who scored Barrymore Award nominations

Timothy Shew, instead of Tom Wopat, will play opposite Linda Eder in a reading of The Seduction of Sheila Valentine on August 19th

Tom Wopat will join Linda Eder for Lenape's reading of The Seduction of Sheila Valentine on August 19th

Philadelphia's Arden Theater Company has lined up a number of premieres for its 2006-2007 season

The Walnut Street Theater brings in another family classic once again for its 197th season. After enjoying record-breaking ticket sales with The Sound of Music and Annie, the country's oldest professional theater follows its success track with Beauty and the Beast.

The Arden Theatre Company's production of Sweeney Todd received the most Barrymore Awards, with Elegies: A Song Cycle, Take Me Out, Chasing Nicolette, The Lives of Bosie and more as other winners of the Philadelphia-area awards

The Arden Theatre Company's staging of Sweeney Todd earned the most Barrymore nominations this season; Bill Irwin and Bronson Pinchot are also nominees

A show about a barber who takes a little too much off the top as the Arden Theater presents a chilling production of one of Stephen Sondheim's less cheery ditties.