Performing Arts

Pilot Beverly Bass says “Come From Away” is actually “a 9/12 story” about what happened after about 7,000 passengers were stranded in a tiny town.

At People’s Light, a first for the U.S.: tech that times captions to live action and stage delivery that might vary slightly from performance to performance.

Arden Theatre Company’s “Gem of the Ocean” and Theatre Horizon’s “The Color Purple” took home the most Barrymore Awards.

Of 23 certified “intimacy directors” worldwide, two are in Philadelphia.

Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn speaks with WHYY film critic Patrick Stoner about how Downton Abbey made the jump from TV to full-length movie.

"Denis and Katya" tells the true story of Russian teenagers who live-streamed themselves in a suicidal shootout with police.

Outcast by the cost of the Fringe Festival, theater artists band together to form their own festival, Free Fringe Philly.

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.