On Stage: The Glass Menagerie at The Phoenix Theatre

By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times The Glass Menagerie This is a good weekend to ignore the winter weather outside and head inside to catch a top-flight local theater performance. The Phoenix Theatre (The Phoenix Theatre at SALT Performing Arts, 1645 Art School Road, Chester Springs, https://www.thephoenixtheatrepa.com) is continuing its debut season with a production of an American classic. Now...

On Stage: String Machine taps into anxieties of youth

By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times String Machine There are a lot of bands whose music is informed by relationships with cars. The Beach Boys alone had more than an album’s worth with songs such as “I Get Around,” “Little Deuce Coupe,’ “Fun Fun Fun,” “This Car of Mine,” “409,” “Little Honda” and “Custom Machine. “ Some of rock music’s other auto-driven...

On Stage: ‘Cabaret’ comes to West Chester

By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times Cabaret The Resident Theatre Company (RTC) at Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center (236 North High Street, West Chester, http://www.rtcwc.org) has embarked on its third season and has started the journey with a musical that is guaranteed to be a crowd-pleaser – “Cabaret.” “We took an email survey last season to find out which shows audiences...

On Stage: Cabaret comes to Wilmington

By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times Cabaret A trip to Wilmington, this week could also be a trip to Berlin – to Berlin in 1931 when the Nazis were first rising to power. That’s because the National Tour of “Cabaret” is running from March 13-18 at the Playhouse on Rodney Square (10th and Market streets, Wilmington, Delaware, 302-888-0200, www. ThePlayhouseDE.org).

On Stage Profile: Kathleen Turner conquers caberet

By Denny Dyroff, Staff Writer, The Times Kathleen Turner In the entertainment realm, there is not much that Kathleen Turner hasn’t conquered. She starred on Broadway in “High, Indiscretions,” “The Graduate,” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” She was brilliant in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and received Tony nominations for Best Actress. On screen, she garnered critical acclaim for...