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Performance Riverside, performing at Landis Performing Arts Center, announced its 2006-07 season of musicals.
The Peccadillo Theater Company has built its sterling reputation on rescuing forgotten classics of the American theatre.
The worlds of Russian ballet and Tin Pan Alley jazz merge harmoniously in this felicitous treat, a quintessential example of the quaint but high-spirited musical comedies of the 1930s.
Adapter-director Jason Alexander's reinvention of this 1955 musical — incorporating radical changes to George Abbott and Douglass Wallop's book and Richard Adler and Jerry Ross' score —...
When I was a kid, my parents used to take me to the Valley Forge Music Fair in Devon, Pa., where, every summer, stars from TV would headline in hit musicals of the past.
Reprise's Flora revisit is an occasionally radiant but mostly misfired resurrection of a show that perhaps should remain in original-cast-CD purgatory.
Director Steven Glaudini's handsomely staged production minimizes the dated elements of this chestnut, though he achieves better results in exuberant production numbers than in the sometimes...
The Peccadillo Theater Company has built its sterling reputation on rescuing forgotten classics of the American theatre.
Hopefully, this excellent production running at TimeLine Theatre will convince more theatres that this is a piece that should be done more often.
Frank Goodman, a veteran press agent whose career spanned five decades, died on Feb. 3 at age 89.
I put out the call to a passel of performers, playwrights, directors, and various hyphenated combinations thereof. What is your New Year's resolution, I asked — and if possible, can it please...
In the second act of Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of The Pajama Game, Kathleen Marshall sends the audience into musical-comedy heaven.
Kitty Carlisle Hart, an actor, singer, arts patron, and the widow of noted writer and director Moss Hart, died Tuesday night from heart failure at the age of 96.
The first time David Hyde Pierce and Debra Monk worked together was a reading in the late 1980s of a play by their mutual friend Christopher Durang. It was a parody of 'The Glass Menagerie': Pierce...

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