Robert Andrew Kovach has designed a comfortable, if starkly modern set for Yasmina Reza’s GOD OF CARNAGE. The red flames of the artwork upstage are a clue to the audience that there are some fireworks…
This one’s for all you whodunit fans who especially have a love for the popular murder mysteries of England’s Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976). THE MOUSETRAP (originally named “Three Blind Mice”) is the “world’s longest running…
David Auburn’s award-winning PROOF opened at the Independence Studio on 3 at Walnut Street Theater on Thursday, January 19th. Philadelphia audiences will be the first to see this production, as it will leave for a…
Philadelphia, PA: Walnut Street Theatre’s Independence Studio on 3 brings audiences David Auburn’s award-winning masterpiece PROOF. Philadelphia audiences will be the first to experience this breathtaking production before it travels as the second national tour…
Philadelphia has a very long and storied theatre tradition, with many fine actors and actresses honing their craft in the Philadelphia theatres. Some consistently return to the area, becoming local icons. One such performer is…
Well, it just never gets old, does it? I’m writing about Rodgers and Hammerstein’s THE KING AND I at the Walnut Street Theatre in its 203rd season. It’s simply enchanting! Remember songs like “Hello Young…
If there is one ‘given’ in life, it is that love changes everything. It is also the title of one of the most beautiful and haunting tunes ever written by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and…
The Walnut Street Theatre wraps up its 202nd season with a first-rate production of the musical triumph, MISS SAIGON. The composers, Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil (of LES MISERABLES fame), in collaboration with Richard Maltby, Jr.,…
Where have all the crooners gone? Fortunately, if you can find your way to the Walnut Street Theatre, and I strongly suggest that you do, upstairs (Independence Studio on 3) in a cozy-ish intimate setting…
As SPEAKING IN TONGUES opens, two couples are about to cheat on their partners. Their dialog develops in unison; each pairing uttering the same lines. Sonia/Jane: Tell me about your wife… Peter/Leon: Why? Sonia/Jane: Is…
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