PHILADELPHIA THEATER REVIEWS

Based on Erich Segal's novel, Love Story tells the tale of upper-class Harvard student, Oliver Barrett IV, and his life-changing encounter with Radcliffe music major, Jenny Cavilleri....

We enjoyed an evening of Sinatra music and dined at a restaurant that is surrounded by glimpses of Ole Blue Eyes himself both in the heart of South Jersey. ...

This was indeed a "Grand Night for Singing" and celebrating for the town of New Hope as they welcome all to the re-opening their cultural jewel The Buck's County Playhouse. ...

Steve Steiner, Producing Artistic Director of the Ocean Professional Theatre Company, Ocean County's newest professional theatre has formed partnerships with local restaurants. Steve is no stranger to theater and his unique New Jersey shore tradition of "Dinner and a Show". Having been the artistic ...

Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner is a powerhouse theatrical event that garnered numerous prestigious awards including a Drama Desk award for Best Play, a Tony® Award for Best Play and the Pultizer® Prize for Drama. This epic work tackles a melting pot of social i...

reasons to be pretty, the third installment in Neil LaBute's trilogy concerning the contemporary fixation on appearances, delves into how what you say, what you mean and how it's perceived by others don't always fall in line. Conversations, however insignificant or unintentional, come back to haunt...

Disney took a great animated movie and turned it into an equally good stage musical, probably one of the best and most popular films to stage production in Disney's history besides Lion King. ...

Walnut Street Theatre finishes out its 203rd season with an all-new production of Broadway's Buddy-The Buddy Holly Story....

In David Mamet's wicked comedy, Boston Marriage, Anna and Claire, a pair of middle-aged, verbose and quick-tongued women, share a life together on the fringe of society in the late 19th century....

On the banks of the Delaware River we find historical Bristol Pa.where we also find some fine dining and professional live theater at the Bristol Riverside Theater and The King George II Inn. ...

Sequels are the biggest risk takers in any form of entertainment. So the idea of taking the longest running musical, The Phantom of the Opera, which just celebrated its 10,000 performance and creating a part two is as hazardous as the Opera Ghost himself. ...

The Scottsboro Boys, by the renowned duo John Kander and Fred Ebb, is simply excellent from the opening number to the final curtain. Vaudeville-infused numbers put a showy spin on the disturbing 1931 true story of nine black teenage boys in Alabama who were charged with a crime they didn't commit. ...

Agatha Christie's timeless mystery, "The Mousetrap," celebrates its 60th anniversary and The Walnut Street Theater has battened down the hatches and sworn all to secrecy as to "who's dun nit". It begins with the dark stage, the proverbial squeaky door, the muffled scream and the eerie sound of someo...

It's Body Awareness Week at Shirley State College in Vermont. Phyllis, a college professor, is in charge of the festivities and has invited visiting artist Frank to stay in the home she shares with her girlfriend Joyce and Joyce's son Jared. Tensions rise as Phyllis and Joyce try to convince Jared t...

Be whisked away to a glamorous resort in northwest France and meet Elyot (Ben Dibble) and Sybil (K.O. DelMarcelle) and Amanda (Genevieve Perrier) and Victor (Leonard C. Haas), two newlywed couples honeymooning in adjacent suites. As soon as Noel Coward's zany romantic comedy Private Lives begins, t...

The 2009 Tony Award winning Best Musical makes its Philadelphia debut....

This classic musical has captured the hearts of theater lovers and the Walnut Theater presents a royally wonderful production. From the tinest child to its adult leading roles, a flawless cast is directed under the creative hand of director/chorographer Marc Robin. ...

'I want to be a fireman.' 'I want to be a teacher.' 'I want to be a movie star.' So begins our endearing introduction to a spirited group of 10 classmates in 1925 Poland who are about to learn how religion, country and identity can tear a nation apart. Directed by Artistic Director Blanka Zizka, the...

Red, John Logan's Tony® award-winning play, takes you into the compelling world of abstract expressionist painter, Mark Rothko (Stephen Rowe) just as he is newly commissioned to paint a collection of murals for a famed, high-society New York restaurant. Ken (Haley Joel Osment), a young, aspiring pa...

The musical that has been dubbed 'an arena -rock love story set to mind blowing, face melting rock hits of the 80's' is a pretty fair description of what took place at the Merriam Theater on Opening Night, October 18th....

The Threepenny Opera ran at the Arden Theatre Company from September 30-November 7. Threepenny features a book by Bertol Brecht and music by Krut Weill - you've probably heard 'Mack the Knife' as it became a popular standard for crooners. Though the show is certainly a predecessor of the musical the...

Arden Theatre Company continues its 2010/11 season with The Threepenny Opera, Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's 1920's musical that paved the way for dark and bawdy works like Cabaret and Sweeney Todd....

The production of Carousel currently playing at Plays and Players is an interesting adaptation by Benjamin F. Glazer of Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic musical. Carousel is the story of the romance between mill girl Julie Jordan and carousel barker Billy Bigelow. Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel...