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Performing Arts

Gwyn Roberts, center, rehearses
Arts & Entertainment

Philadelphia gave America its first major musical oratorio in 1781. Then it got buried in poop

Tempesta di Mare is presenting a fully orchestrated “America Independent, or The Temple of Minerva” as it has never been done before.

2 days ago

Philly has a variety of comedy clubs
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Your guide to Philly’s comedy scene

Philly is funny – literally. Whether you’re looking for an improv show, comedy classes or the bigger headliners, here’s your guide to Philly’s comedy scene.

6 days ago

Pax Ressler and Jackie Soro
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

The shiny veneer of American Girl dolls wears thin in latest production at Philly’s FringeArts

Pax Ressler and Jackie Soro play both themselves and their American Girl counterparts in “Girl Dolls: The American Musical.”

6 days ago

Megan Bridge, Tammy Carrasco and Chloe Maria performing a dance
Arts & Entertainment

Wild Horizon festival plants a flag for circus performance in Philadelphia

With the loss of Germantown's Circadium school, a new festival is trying to establish Philly as a hub for contemporary circus.

1 week ago

Listen 1:07
Anthony Roth Costanzo stands on the stage at the Academy of Music
Arts & Entertainment

Opera Philadelphia’s upcoming season will feature a comedy about a president who defies electoral defeat to become a dictator

George and Ira Gershwin’s “Let ‘Em Eat Cake” flopped on Broadway in 1933. Opera Philadelphia will revive it for the midterm election season.

2 weeks ago

Listen 1:21
Trombonist Brent White performs
Arts & Entertainment

Philadelphia budget 2026: Isaiah Thomas, Rue Landau want $6 million allocated for arts

With funding turbulence at the federal and state levels, elected officials are calling for the city to pick up some of the slack.

2 weeks ago

Listen 1:26
Contortionist Ava Gowanloch works on the mat
Education
Billy Penn

Philly is home to the nation’s only accredited circus school – but it’s shutting down

The Circadium School of Contemporary Circus has faced funding cuts and administrative challenges since it started. Its director said this school was one of a kind.

4 weeks ago

Repo Records has a varied selection of vinyl
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Billy Penn’s guide to Philly record stores

Record stores have seen a resurgence over the past decade – and these spots in Philly are no exceptions. Here’s where you can go to get your groove on.

4 weeks ago

Rich Pennisi, Trapeta Mayson, Darlene Wilson-Bennett, Andre Saunders, Yolanda Wisher, RuNett Ebo, Marguerite Anglin, Tomarra Sankara-Kilombo, and Rob Blackstone
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Healing Verse Germantown uses poetry and public art to strengthen community bonds

Exhibit organizers hope it serves as a model in Philly and the U.S. for addressing mental health wounds of gun violence through the transformative power of poetry and art.

1 month ago

A sign reads WXPN and another sign reads World Café Live.
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

The rise and fall of World Cafe Live

The arrest of four World Stage employees and a venue-shutdown for selling liquor without a license is the latest in a string of bad press for the venue.

1 month ago

Playwright James Ijames discusses the production design
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

The fight to maintain family ties is central to the world premiere of James Ijames’ latest play

“Wilderness Generation” offers a solution to today’s widespread feelings of isolation, providing a heartfelt and comic how-to at Philadelphia Theatre Co.

1 month ago

Dan Blacksberg and band performing at Abyssinia
Arts & Entertainment

Why Yiddish is experiencing a grassroots revival in West Philadelphia

A rag-tag group of younger adults has rediscovered the West Germanic language and culture for heritage and politics.

1 month ago

Listen 4:41
“Once Upon A Glow: Stories in the Blacklight
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Philly Theatre Week launches pay-what-you-can to share ‘the value of live theater’

Nearly 50 productions are part of the effort to introduce more people to the experience of live theater in Philly and beyond.

1 month ago

Kevin Earley (Captain Georg von Trapp) and Cayleigh Capaldi (Maria Rainer) with the von Trapp Children
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Eminently popular ‘Sound of Music’ returns to Philly at a time ‘that feels terribly relevant’

The performance at the Academy of Music includes two songs cut from the film that allude to the coming Nazi threat.

1 month ago

Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Martha Washington faces ghosts of the enslaved on Philly stage

Wilma Theater presents a Dickensian satire that pits the former first lady against the people she and her husband once held in slavery.

2 months ago

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