Performing Arts

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.

Appearing in Philadelphia accompanied by Pennsylvania state politicians, rapper Meek Mill again calls for changes to the state's system of probation and parole.

Movement may be more subtle in this Philadelphia production of the Broadway dazzler, but the result is striking and eloquent in its own right.

Philadelphia theater companies mine the annual list of under-produced scripts to find dramatic gold.

The ‘Few,’ by MacArthur “genius grant” fellow Samuel D. Hunter, strikes common chords about loneliness and connection and continues through April 7.

Nationally renowned pianist Leon Fleisher continues his 90th birthday celebration with a pair of performances in Delaware.

The new High Pressure Fire Service Festival, geared to locally based performers, runs through most of June, with a new show opening each month.

Philly’s 150-year-old Chinatown concert venue will close at the end of the month.

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.

The production affirms Arden Theatre Company as the region's major producer of August Wilson's work.

“Vessels,” a premiere work this weekend at the Annenberg Center in Philadelphia, imagines how captured African women might have survived the Middle Passage.