Performing Arts

The Wilma Theater in Philadelphia joins dozens of companies around the world in staging a new play from Belarus written during the protests.

Actor Stephen Eng, who portrays Gordon Hirabayashi in the one-person show "Hold These Truths," writes about settling into the role.

With its theaters closed for six months and counting, the avenue will ring out with music again as performers perch high up in a half-finished building.

Morning Edition Host Jennifer Lynn interviews Nick Stuccio, president and producing director of FringeArts, about taking the Fringe Festival virtual this year.

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.