Performing Arts

Anson Williams is in Delaware doing something he hasn’t done in decades: Acting. He joins Didi Conn and Sallie Struthers on stage in Wilmington in the play “Middletown.”

‘Minors’ is a rock musical based on a pair of corrupt judges who sent children to prison in exchange for kickbacks. Both are now in prison.

This evocative play about a child of war features a complex story and a fine cast.

“Boycott Esther” playwright Emily Acker creates an imperfect onstage drama out of her career setback because of Harvey Weinstein’s fall from grace.

Delaware Theatre Company’s “Honk! The Ugly Duckling Musical” is heartwarming entertainment for anyone who has ever felt like a square peg in a round-hole world.

OperaDelaware’s 2019 legal-themed festival features the most performed opera of the 21st century, “Dead Man Walking,” along with the comical “Scalia/Ginsburg.”

Emily Acker watched the Weinstein Company collapse, from the inside. She wrote a play based on that dissolution.

Theater companies are reaching out to lower-income patrons with alternative ticketing models.

Playwright Kate Tarker offers up the absurdist tale of a shepherd, his wife and Oedipus, the son who left them.

Reggie Wilson, a New York choreographer, will present a series of experimental dances at four historic churches in Philadelphia.

Sarah Ruhl wrote the play as a 70th birthday gift for her mother, who portrayed Pan as a teenager in Iowa.

People in Philadelphia’s theater community push back against Philadelphia Theater Company’s diversity claim.

Arts nonprofit We Are the Seeds hosted its inaugural local festival Saturday at Taller Puertorriqueño to showcase the culture and creations of Native communities.

Afghanistan and Omaha are the settings for an alternately funny and sad drama about the meaning of struggle.

The play has been the object of scorn and disgust for its subject matter and even for its title. But this flawed presentation satisfies as a glimpse of theater history.