Performing Arts

Celebrations including Disney, Kwanzaa, and live and virtual shows are highlighted this holiday weekend.

Dec. 16 - Dec. 19: Things to do in Pa., Del., and N.J.

Dr. Derrell Acon is a singer and arts administrator from Long Beach Opera who will take on the unique role of HR exec and equity, diversity, and inclusion officer.

The Painted Mug Cafe, a new performance venue and coffee shop in South Philly, will be dedicated to empowering the LGBTQ community.

The Crossing choir’s Christmas concerts will premiere 12 new compositions written for a pandemic.

The music education organization has given away thousands of instruments to schoolchildren out of its Center City storage unit.

Kimmel Cultural Campus and the Philadelphia Orchestra are asking audiences to bring donations to support Taller Puertorriqueño’s annual gift drive.

Jane Lynch and Charlie Brown’s musical Christmas anchor this weekend’s events in and around Philadelphia.

The theatrical giant, who died Friday at 91, was as complex as his lyrics, dogmatic in his rules and not generous with praise about his work.

Philly’s Power Street Theatre leans into the mobile social media platform popular with Latinos and immigrants to release the play “¿Que lo Que?”

Philadelphia Theatre Company’s premiere of “The Garbologists” supports sanitation workers on and off the stage, with input from the city’s favorite dancer-turned-trashman.

Sinatra’s Rat Pack, ABBA, Eagles vs. Saints, and the Philly Marathon are the weekend highlights in the Delaware Valley.

After a pandemic hiatus in 2021 and a 2020 parade marred by some members in blackface, Mummers Parade organizers are promising an event “welcoming to all.”

Britney is free. A Los Angeles judge on Friday ended the conservatorship that has controlled Britney Spears’ life and money for nearly 14 years.

Nov. 11- Nov. 14: Things to do in Pa., Del., and N.J.