Performing Arts

New rules Ticketmaster announced stipulate that a show has to be either officially canceled or have new dates announced in order for the purchaser to be eligible for refunds.

We talk with poets Richard Blanco and Nikky Finney about writing and reading poetry during the pandemic.

The coronavirus shutdown showed artists what they cannot do. Now some are exploring what they can.

Rob Buscher, a recently laid-off arts administrator, reflects on the impact the coronavirus pandemic is having on the arts in Philadelphia.

Amid the COVID-19 outbreak, several organizations are putting out a schedule of live, streaming content. Many update offerings daily.

Performers, museums and zoos turn to the internet during the coronavirus shutdown to entertain — and to raise money.

“A Very Awesome Purim” tells the story of the holiday entirely through parodies of Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars and more.

“Count Me In, a forum theatre collaboration between Ceiba and Just Act, depicts a struggle to explain the census’ importance to hard-to-count communities.

Three friends chronicle the gentrification of their changing hometown and call for a new Harlem Renaissance in the Wilma Theater’s newest production.

The 2020-2021 season will open with a new chamber opera about a major 2012 art heist at the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam.

The drama, about a society that tolerates only perfect pregnancies tested in utero, is being mounted, and refined, at National New Play Network theaters.

Each new addition will spend a season as lead artistic director, picking shows, casts and design teams with advice from the others, including Blanka Zizka.

In 1916, Angelina Weld Grimké’s “Rachel” was anti-racist propaganda. Now Quintessence says it’s a great American drama.

Hundreds of singers will be assembling in Philadelphia to participate at the Keystone Sacred Harp Convention in January. One of the conventions organizers, Thomas Ward, joins.

“Candles,” premiering at the Arden Theatre, was written though Philadelphia Young Playwrights. It’s eligible for a Barrymore Award.