Performing Arts
An off-season Fringe, with the spotlight on local successes
The new High Pressure Fire Service Festival, geared to locally based performers, runs through most of June, with a new show opening each month.
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Kung fu to zombies, remembering the Trocadero
Philly’s 150-year-old Chinatown concert venue will close at the end of the month.
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At Wilmington’s 76ers Fieldhouse, hoops make way for hoopla of concerts, celebrities
The new Wilmington sports arena for the 76ers G League team drew well for an O.A.R. concert. Rap queen Cardi B will host a party there in April.
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Listen 2:16The production affirms Arden Theatre Company as the region's major producer of August Wilson's work.
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“Vessels,” a premiere work this weekend at the Annenberg Center in Philadelphia, imagines how captured African women might have survived the Middle Passage.
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Listen 2:10Saluting the ‘Broads’ who declared themselves in laughter, from 1812 Productions
Strong women take the microphone.
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Delaware Theatre’s ‘Saint Joan’ a story of determination
Clare O’Malley delivers a sweet, searing Joan who dazzles all with her confidence and determination in Delaware Theatre Company's production of "Saint Joan" in Wilmington.
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A sentimental journey over ‘The Bridges of Madison County’ at Philadelphia Theatre Company
A photographer, a housewife and a show that doesn't know when to stop.
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South Philly’s Theatre Exile finds bargain-basement home right where it started
The South Philadelphia theater company lost its home of 10 years. Now, it’s moving back to a bigger, better — albeit underground — stage.
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Listen 3:18‘Box Clever’ and boxed in at life, from Inis Nua Theatre Company
A desperate single mother bares her soul, but not effectively until the play's very end.
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A ‘Dream Girl,’ overwhelmed by her space with Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium
Her mind takes off into daydreams, but the play is earth-bound by echoing sound where it's performed.
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Opera Philadelphia to open next season with a Russian tragedy
Opera Philadelphia has commissioned “Denis and Katya,” an opera based on the 2016 shooting deaths of two Russian teens in a self-inflicted explosion of violence.
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‘Hype Man’ and the kitchen sink at InterAct Theatre Company
Hip-hop performers argue over the purpose of a public forum.
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Chekhov comes in threes as Philly-area theaters present ‘Three Sisters’ three times
It’s an accidental triple-threat as three regional theater companies simultaneously produce variations of Chekhov’s classic ‘Three Sisters.’
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Listen 4:41High-pitched fun: ‘A Comedy of Tenors’ at Walnut Street Theatre
At a huge event with four tenors at a stadium in Paris, what could go wrong? Everything.
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