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Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival Preview: “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill” (Closed Sunday, August 6, 2023)

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival (PSF) is proud to present Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, written by acclaimed playwright Lanie Robertson with musical arrangements by Danny Holgate. Philadelphia award-winning artists Amina Robinson and Ebony Pullum reunite to stage the production which previews July 19 and 20, opens Friday, July 21 and runs through August 6 in the Schubert Theatre at…

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Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival Shubert Theatre Review: “Much Ado About Nothing” (Closed Sunday, August 7, 2022)

Under director Matt Pfeiffer’s helm, Akeem Davis (Benedick) and Brett Ashley Robinson (Beatrice) and the cast of “Much Ado About Nothing” bring Shakespeare’s late comedy (1598 or shortly thereafter) to a welcomed level of excellence at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival 2022. This is a “Much Ado” not to be missed. In this pleasing production, Don Pedro (a likeable and energetic Lindsay…

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Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival 2022 Main Stage Review: One Singular Sensation “A Chorus Line” at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival at the Labuda Center for the Performing Arts on the Campus of DeSales University (Closed Sunday, July 10, 2022)

June 20, 2022 | awards, do this one thing for me, pennsylvania, public, the seven year > | "A Chorus Line", Andrew Ruggieri (Mike), Andy Peterson, Bianca Bulgarelli (Bebe), Bob Avian, Brandon Moreno (Larry), Campus of DeSales University, Clint Maddox Thompson (Al), David Grindrod, David M. Greenberg, Eddie Martin Morales (Paul), Edward Kleban, Emma Vielbig (Maggie), James Harkness, James Kirkwood, Jaylen Axel (Butch), Joseph Papp, Josh Curran (Roy), Josiah Behrens (Tom), Julia Feeley (Judy), Justin Lopez (Patrick), Kathryn Brunner (Val), Labuda Center for the Performing Arts, Lauren Emily Alagna (Kristine), Lilianna Solum (Lois), Luis Villabon, Madison Finney (Shelia), Marlena López Hilderley (Tricia), Marvin Hamlisch, Matthew Aaron Liotine (Greg & Dance Captain), Michael McDonald, Milan Magaña (Diana), Morgan Harrison (Vicki), Musa Hitomi (Connie), Nicholas Dante, Nick Schrier (Frank), Patrick Higgins, Paul Watt-Morse (Don), Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Pulitzer Prize, Randy Lawson, Richard Latta, Shaun-Avery Williams (Richie), Sissy Bell, The New York Shakespeare Festival, Thomas Henke (Bobby), Tony Award Winner

The original production of “A Chorus Line” opened in 1975 Off-Broadway at The Public Theater and transferred to The Shubert Theater on Broadway three months later to be nominated for twelve Tony Awards, winning nine and being awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was a groundbreaking musical that was the first Broadway show to be performed without an intermission…

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Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival 2021 Main Stage Review: “How I Learned What I Learned” (Through Sunday July 11, 2021)

July 3, 2021 | days of, pennsylvania, sf gate theatre reviews, Uncategorized, water for > | "How I Learned What I Learned", Aleshea Harris, August Wilson, Aziza Barnes, Christopher V. Edwards, Donja R. Love, Jeremy O. Harris, Marcus Gardley, Mfoniso Udofia, Michael R. Jackson, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Robert O'Hara, Suzan-Lori Parks, Todd Kreidler

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival 2021 Main Stage Review: “How I Learned What I Learned” (Through Sunday July 11, 2021 By August Wilson Co-Conceived by Todd Kreidler Directed by Christopher V. Edwards Reviewed by David Roberts, Theatre Reviews Limited Looking carefully at the many windows looming upstage on Baron E. Pugh’s set for the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival 2021 Main Stage production of “How I…

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Off-Broadway News: Broadway Bound Theatre Festival’s Inaugural Lineup Sets the Stage for a New Age at the 14th Street Y

Tony winning casts, revolution, a Spanish language performance, an honest look at mental health, and an After-Hours Fringe: BBTF proves itself to be fresh, diverse and relevant to the modern audience. Broadway Bound Theatre Festival is quickly crowding our calendars this summer, creating an artistic oasis in Fringe’s absence. Between July 30 and August 20, 2017, twenty curated new works…

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Preview: Dallas Black Dance Theatre Returns to the Big Apple for Fifth Season (April 22-23, 2016 in the Ailey Citigroup Theater)

March 15, 2016 | Dance, dance nation, pennsylvania, Previews, to kill > | Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater

The Dallas Black Dance Theatre (DBDT) returns to New York for its fifth season of self-produced performances on April 22-23, 2016 in the Ailey Citigroup Theater, located at 405 West 55thStreet, in New York, New York. The Masterworks Redefined – New York series will showcase the energetic dance artistry of the repertory dance company that is turning 40 in its…

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Preview: “The Humans” at the Helen Hayes Theatre (Review Published on Friday March 25, 2016)

March 9, 2016 | Broadway, pennsylvania, Previews > | Helen Hayes Theatre

Scott Rudin and Barry Diller present the Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes Artistic Director) production of Stephen Karam’s much-raved-about new play, “The Humans,” on Broadway, following its smash-hit Off-Broadway engagement. Directed by Tony Award® winner Joe Mantello and featuring its entire acclaimed current Off-Broadway cast, “The Humans” began performances at Broadway’s Helen Hayes Theatre (240 West 44th Street) on Saturday,…

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“The Eternal Space” at the Lion Theatre on Theatre Row (Closed Sunday December 6, 2015)

November 24, 2015 | how to save a world, Off-Broadway, pennsylvania > | Lion Theatre, Pennsylvania Station, The Eternal Space, Theatre Row

Two men – one older, one younger – cross paths in the former Pennsylvania Train Station from 1963 until 1966. The older Joseph Lanzarone (Clyde Baldo) teaches American and British Literature at Xavier High School. The younger Paul Abbot (Matthew Pilieci) works on the crew contracted to demolish the iconic train station and is an amateur photographer. Each holds a…

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“Row After Row” at the Women’s Project Theater at New York City Center Stage II (Closed Sunday February 16, 2014)

February 5, 2014 | Off-Broadway, pennsylvania, to kill > | Women's Project Theatre

Trope after trope thrusts Jessica Dickey’s “Row After Row” into a kaleidoscope of images present and past celebrating humankind’s insistence on moving forward through often seemingly insurmountable “battles” on an off the theatres of war. Currently running at New York City Stage II, “Row After Row” is part of the Women’s Project Theater’s thirty-sixth season of presenting plays written by…

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