Performing Arts

The annual Philly Fringe Festival of alternative and avant-garde performance art begins this week, although in somewhat reduced fashion due to the coronavirus pandemic.

If the unionization effort is successful, it will include both adjunct and full-time faculty across all departments of UArts, estimated to be about 500 people.

The city joins many others around the country lighting their downtowns red to push for economic assistance.

The digitally streaming music festival offers longtime fans a way to camp through their laptops.

Christopher Jackson to stream favorites with a live band to benefit the Kimmel Center and other performing arts centers across the country.

Festival creator Maori Karmael Holmes has been hired to bring cinema back to the Annenberg Performing Arts Center.

Schools, faith and community groups as well as professional musicians are all struggling with the risks of singing. Experts present the most recent research and offer tips.

Instead of producing opera for the stage, the company will turn operas into original films and release them on the company’s own online video channel. 

Drive-ins are the socially distant live music venues of the summer of 2020. “I don’t ever want it to stop,” said one concertgoer at People’s Light in Malvern.

“The live event industry was hit first, it was hit hardest, and will be the last to return,” said the head of the stagehands’ union.

The Wilma Theater will present its final production the 2019-20 season, the Afrofuturist work “Is God Is,” as a radio play — something it’s never done before.

Facing allegations of racism and sexual harassment within his organization, PlayPenn’s founding director Paul Meshejian has resigned.

An organization that helps playwrights develop new work has come under fire with accusations of racism and sexual harassment.

When the Supreme Court ruled this past week on "faithless electors," Hamilton's name appeared five times. But the story is a little more complicated than the Broadway show.

To maintain social distancing for theater performances, the Philadelphia company is taking cues from Shakespeare’s original Globe Theatre.