PHILADELPHIA THEATER REVIEWS

'Put On Your Sunday Clothes' because 'It Only Takes A Moment'- well, maybe about five minuets to fall in love with this one....

Valerie Joyce and a fine cast go back to the roots of Brecht's THREEPENNY OPERA and uncover a feminist treasure trove...

Bucks County Playhouse opens their 2015 season with a new musical about baseball, NATIONAL PASTIME. This musical is a show that takes audiences back to the 1930s. It is a musical about baseball, but it also a show about the 1930s culture and radio in small town America. Under the direction of Hunte...

A mishmash of stuffy characters debating over a 'Who done it' and by Act II you might wish There Were None left....

Had our' Ragtime' immigrants made there way down the Delaware River into Bristol Pennsylvania, they may have decided to reside there forever....

Act II Playhouse's production of UNNECESSARY FARCE by Paul Smith Slade is boisterous, funny, chaotic and a wonderfully done farce. According to a press release from Act II Playhouse, this show has 'Two Cops. Three Crooks. Eight Doors. One Killer in a Kilt.' Without giving too much away, this show is...

Barrymore winner James Ijames directs Rachel Bonds' tale of a boy, a girl, and their bookstore....

Featuring two dozen songs 'Always…Patsy Cline' is both a staged musical and a concert all- in- one....

The latest show to grace the stage at the Walnut Street Theatre is No?l Coward's PRIVATE LIVES. Many have called this show Coward's finest and funniest romantic comedy. This comedy is about a divorced couple, Amanda and Elyot, who have remarried and are on their honeymoon with their new spouses in F...

When you can hear a pin drop in the audience as the actors on stage tear at your heart strings more powerfully than the most cleverly crafted dialogue, well you know you've got a winner....

Mark Twain is not only one of the most beloved and widely read American authors, but he is also a gifted raconteur and distinctive humorist. MARK TWAIN UNPLUGGED, the latest show at Act II Playhouse, wonderfully captures all these characteristics of Twain and brings him to life in this show. This pr...

It's an amusing show, and it's not so female-oriented that men won't be able to get a few laughs at it as well. It's surprisingly free of male-bashing, celebrating women rather than complaining about the opposite sex, and it's relatively gentle, although if you're easily embarrassed by the subject o...

MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL is on tour, and it's as raucous as ever in New Hope on the Bucks County Playhouse stage...

Theatrical Rights Worldwide wanted a new version of GHOST: THE MUSICAL for regional theatres. Director Marc Robin's initial publicly-presented revisions reveal an entirely new face of Bruce Joel Rubin's stage version of his beloved film. It's spare, clean, and shows signs of major improvement to a...

It is that time of year when the bustle of the holiday season is upon us and we all have a list of "things to do" before the holidays arrive. It is a time of year when we can all use a bit of holiday cheer, and relax, sit back and have a good laugh. That is exactly what Act II Playhouse does with th...

It's always exciting to see how different producing theaters tackle a legendary show such as Les Miserable. The Media Theatre cast and creative team has put a lot of heart and hard work into this production and it shows!...

The wind has blown this famous nanny into the city last week and she's here to stay 'until the wind changes' or at least through the holiday season....

The classic Tennessee Williams play THE GLASS MENAGERIE is a show that paints a picture from personal truth and the emotional watercolors of memory. It is a beautifully written play with affecting dialog and themes. This show draws the audience into the story as soon as Tom, the narrator, steps on t...

For the second year in a row, THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW is at Bucks County Playhouse. This show is time warping its way through Bucks County Playhouse just in time for Halloween. It is a cult classic and has everything you loved about the movie in a live stage version. Bucks County Playhouse certainly ...

The 2014 Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre, live blogged from the Merriam Theatre!...

What to do when you have a sure hit film or TV show that everyone's heard of? Make a Broadway Musical, of course....

Act II Playhouse opened its sixteenth season last weekend with ROUNDING THIRD. This play, beautifully written by Richard Dresser, tells the story of two Little League coaches, who have very different attitudes towards the game. One coach, Michael, is the assistant coach who has little knowledge abou...

With the good wishes of Dolly Parton herself, the stellar Philly/ Broadway cast under the direction of Bruce Lumpkin and choreographer Michelle Gaudette is a fun loving day at the office from hell! ....

AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' at Bucks County Playhouse is full of energy and wonderful music that will have audiences tapping their feet along with these tunes. The cast is so full of spirit, that the audience will have to contain themselves to keep from getting up to dance in the middle of the show. This prod...

This summer there is a unique and exciting event happening in Cape May, New Jersey. The event, AN EVENING AT THE CAPE MAY SUMMER CLUB, features a few of Philadelphia's favorite actors, as well as performers from the Great White Way. During this concert, audiences heard American Songbook favorites wi...