Performing Arts

The National Constitution Center’s Civil War and Reconstruction exhibition is accompanied by a play adapted entirely from historic texts.

Those putting on the Broadway hit in Philadelphia have an elaborate plan to sell tickets while minimizing how many go to ticket resellers.

Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra” runs July 10 through Aug. 4 as part of the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival.

The play, set in West Chester, Pennsylvania, nimbly toggles back and forth in time to show the history in the foreground of the characters’ lives.

Christopher Durang’s one-act play, produced by the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium, brings its own laughs as it dallies with taboos.

The 1954 dystopian sci-fi novel by Swedish poet Harry Martinson has been developed into a 90-minute performance with singers, actors, and video.

Wilmington’s Serafin Summer Music aims to fill the void left by former Delaware Chamber Music Festival, which disbanded two years ago.

Quintessence Theatre Group’s bam-bam production whizzes by, even though it’s a very full two acts. There’s music and slapstick and more, through June 30.

Princeton High School's production of "Anything Goes" featured racist stereotypes of Asians that sparked a debate about how to handle older plays.

Luzerne County's "cash for kids" scandal inspires a musical at the Lantern Theater.

The play offers characters who deliver their own points of view about being moms — ideas that illuminate the subject, then let you think for yourself.

Philadelphia launches a series of events for Whitman’s 200th birthday, some challenging the legacy of the “Good Gray Poet.”

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.