Performing Arts
When dementia changes a scientist into an artist, a Philly play tells her story
"UnRavelled" comes to Penn, exploring Anne Adams’ life, Ravel’s "Bolero" and the connections between dementia and creativity.
8 hours ago
2 Philadelphia theaters are first in line to produce new Broadway shows
The Arden Theatre and Philadelphia Theatre Company were first to secure rights to “Girl from the North Country” and “Liberation.”
2 days ago
Listen 1:54A tax credit for film and other productions that spend $100,000 in Delaware is designed to draw Hollywood to the First State.
6 days ago
Listen 1:12Gateway Playhouse’s rehearsals and performances offer distracting environments for dogs learning to guide the blind.
2 weeks ago
Listen 1:48When life hurts, can you laugh? Fringe artists explore trauma through comedy
When life is a tragedy, where is the punchline? These Philadelphia Fringe Festival shows use humor to survive the darkest days.
2 weeks ago
This eclectic concert has been taking place in a Philly living room for the last 40 years
Andrea Clearfield’s music "szalon" celebrates its 40th birthday this Sunday.
2 weeks ago
The Yes! And…Collaborative Theater program guides teenagers to devise an original play for the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.
2 weeks ago
Listen 3:04Pro-Palestine groups announce protests outside of the Ed Sheeran concert
Sheeran hoped to keep politics out of his shows. Politics are coming to him instead.
3 weeks ago
Two memorial funds were planned after the death of Dito van Reigersberg. The first has distributed microgrants for the Fringe.
4 weeks ago
Goodwill’s fashion show transforms donated and thrifted pieces into creative runway designs, highlighting the possibilities of reuse and secondhand style.
4 weeks ago
Listen 1:19How a clown on a Philly stage is helping audiences find solutions
Philly Fringe Fest’s “ha ha ha ha ha ha” is a silly, vulnerable look at the problems we all face.
4 weeks ago
Joe Torsella goes from Pa. treasurer to the Philly Fringe Fest in his first one-man show
A politician who grew up in theater, Torsella mixes his two passions in “Declaration.”
4 weeks ago
Listen 3:41Philly Fringe shows explore joys and trials of fatherhood
Dads take center stage in four Fringe shows that range that mix comedy, drama and even a little circus.
4 weeks ago
With ‘Kramer/Fauci,’ the Philly Fringe opens with a reminder of civic debate circa 1993
The play about Anthony Fauci and Larry Kramer takes its script directly from a C-SPAN broadcast on which they appeared 33 years ago.
4 weeks ago
These Philly Fringe shows focus on veteran stories with parallels to Iran, Vietnam and beyond
A pair of shows at Philadelphia’s Fringe Festival highlight past and current challenges facing members of the armed services.
4 weeks ago














