Performing Arts

The principal dancer with the Alvin Ailey Dance Company became its international star, and later its leader.

Hamilton is the epic saga that follows the rise of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton as he fight to shape the course of a nation. It's back on stage at the Academy of Music.

The family of the late Peter Nero has given the brand “Philly Pops” to the start-up orchestra.

A musical satire about the Obama administration, “44” comes to Philadelphia to be at the election’s inflection point.

Dr. Audrey Evans is the subject of new biopic “Audrey’s Children,” a film set and shot in Philadelphia and written and produced by Philadelphians.

Musicians of the orchestra made a public display of absentee voting to encourage others to make a plan.

The West Philly company is using a garden bed to urge people to petition state legislators into recognizing the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania.

Director Bill Nicoletti’s “The Philly Sound…Heard ‘Round the World” will screen at this year’s festival. The film documents the history of Sigma Sounds Studio.

“This Is the Week That Is,” the annual spoof of current events, takes aim at the presidential election.

Starting with a mysterious noise of no discernible source, the opera explores political cultism.

Golson’s contributions include the jazz standard, “I Remember Clifford,” and compositions recorded by Art Blakey and Miles Davis.