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A touching, life-affirming Come from Away
The seven-time Tony-award-winning musical Come From Away returns for a run at the Philadelphia Academy of Music until February 12.
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A tale of talent, envy, psychosis, and danger
Philadelphia’s Lantern Theater Company is now presenting The Lifespan of a Fact, onstage until March 5 at St. Stephen’s Theater. The Lifespan of a Fact by Jeremy Kareken, David Murrell, and Gordon Farrell is based upon the book by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal published in 2012. The book was the result of Mr. Fingal’s…
Broadway smash musical Jagged Little Pill at the Academy of Music
Famed artist Alanis Morissette’s 1995 record Jagged Little Pill became a Broadway musical on December 5, 2019, according to Playbill. Jagged Little Pill was nominated for 15 Tony Awards, winning two in 2021. The cast recording has also won a Grammy Award. Jagged Little Pill the Musical will be at Philadelphia’s Academy of Music until January 15.
Joy, the Musical, at George Street Playhouse
Joy, the Musical is now onstage at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center (NBPAC) until December 30.
An exciting, visually stunning new Cinderella at Walnut Street Theatre
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella at Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre is spectacular, engaging, thrilling, and great fun. Douglas Carter Beane has worked his gay magic on a new book, making it even more enchanting.
The Wilma became for a few days The Temple of Terpsichore Urania when it hosted the stupendous BalletX
Was it the waxing moon, or the nearing of Mars to Earth? It was just BalletX, a fine company of dancers, celebrating their Fall Series at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia. BalletX presented three works and a documentary explaining the genesis of those works. Love Letter, a world premiere by former BalletX dancer Caili Quan,…
Bucks County Playhouse presents Million Dollar Quartet Christmas
Million Dollar Quartet Christmas, Book by Colin Escott, is the latest iteration of the hit Million Dollar Quartet, which was last seen at Bucks County Playhouse in 2018.
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center returns with splendor to Drew University
The covid pandemic closed the venue in March 2020, so it is especially wonderful that the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (hereinafter CMS) was invited to return to the bucolic Drew University campus in Madison, NJ.
A drama as tightly sprung as a Swiss timepiece
The Royale, a drama by Marco Ramirez, is now onstage at St. Stephen’s Theater in Center City Philadelphia. The Lantern Theater Company has delivered an intense, incandescent performance by every actor involved. The energy explodes from the intimate theater-in-the-round. Most seats are no more than twenty feet away from the action.
