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Off the top of your head, what was playing on Broadway in 1982? Some of you may not have even been born. Here’s a quick answer: Master Harold … and the Boys, Torch Song Trilogy, Agnes of God, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and, among others, CATS.
Winner of nine Tony Awards, the 2011 musical comedy The Book of Mormon returns to Philadelphia’s Academy of Music.
Paula Vogel’s Tony-award-winning play Indecent is now at the Arden Theatre Company until June 23. First produced in 2015, it reached Broadway in 2017 earning three Tony nominations and winning for best direction of a play for Rebecca Taichman and lighting design in a play for Christopher Akerlind. It appeared on PBS as a Great Performance presentation in 2017.
The classic thriller Dial M for Murder will be at Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, PA, until June 15.
Legally Blonde: The Musical has found itself a home at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia until July 14. This Legally Blonde: The Musical is an exciting, joyous event which can hold its own against anything Broadway can offer.
The McCarter Theatre Center of Princeton, New Jersey, is now presenting David Hare’s drama Skylight at their Berlind Theatre until June 2.
The McCarter Theatre Center presented Mark Morris Dance Group, and the MMDG Music Ensemble at the Matthews Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey, on May 17, 2019.
On May 9, Pennsylvania Ballet presented a triple bill of ballets at Philadelphia’s historic, magnificent Academy of Music.
The double bill consisted of Riders to the Sea by Ralph Vaughan Williams, after the play by John Millington Synge, and Empty the House by Rene Orth with libretto by Mark Campbell. The two operas had as a theme mothers, one being good, the other evil, and the ways they dealt with their sons’ deaths.
Opera Philadelphia is now presenting Puccini’s classic opera La boheme on the Academy of Music stage until May 5.