Performing Arts

Taking 1960s recordings of prison work songs, “The B-Side: Negro Folklore from Texas” tries to transport you into the past.

“Superterranean” features a forbidding set by Mimi Lien, evoking the awe and mystery of the systems that support urban life.

Philadelphia Fringe Festival opens Sept. 5 and runs for 18 days with 158 different shows: theater, dance, music, circus, film and visual art, plus digital.

Formerly an arts desert, Philadelphia’s Mayfair neighborhood is expanding its cultural footprint for the Fringe Festival.

August Wilson’s drama has received 11 nominations for this year’s awards for excellence in professional theater, which were announced Monday.

Fifty years to the day he performed at Woodstock, a weathered David Crosby stepped to the main stage of the Philadelphia Folk Festival.

Philadelphia poet Sonia Sanchez read the entire poem for WHYY's CommonSpace in February 2017.

Philadelphia’s Wilma Theater encourages young people to invent plays out of hoaxes and misinformation.

Tina Fey was in town to promote the Broadway tour of her musical comedy, “Mean Girls,” which is coming to Philly in November.

Theatre in the X staged a world premiere of “Beast of Nubia.”

The 6th annual Ghostly Circus brings more fire and daring acrobatic feats to Philadelphia’s historic Laurel Hill Cemetery while contemplating climate change

Chester has been written off by people more times than anyone would care to count. Except for the people who call Chester home. For us, we see promise where others see peril.

The production is loosely based on Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.” It’s the magic, and the tumbling, the flying, and the daredevils, that make the experience.

Award-winning playwright Dominique Morisseau chooses West Chester’s east end for a play about gentrification.

In West Philadelphia's annual Shakespeare in Clark Park adaptation, Lear's knights are played by four veterans and given a slightly bigger role.